Washington – The Obama administration is weighing whether to cut aid to the Palestinians because of their effort to join the International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.
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State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says the U.S. is reviewing its annual $440 million financial package for the Palestinians.
She also criticized Israel Monday for freezing tax revenues to Palestinians. She said the move last week “raises tensions.”
The Palestinian decision to join The Hague court came after the U.N. Security Council rejected setting a three-year deadline for an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian-claimed lands.
Israel fiercely opposes the Palestinian membership at the court.
And under American law, any Palestinian case against Israel there would trigger an immediate U.S. aid cutoff. But Palestinian membership, by itself, doesn’t incur an automatic U.S. punishment.
Sounds good.
“State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki says the U.S. is reviewing its annual $440 million financial package for the Palestinians.
She also criticized Israel Monday for freezing tax revenues to Palestinians. She said the move last week “raises tensions.”””
LOL So we are expected to believe that obama is going to do the exact thing he’s condemning Israel for doing?! What a shameless liar our president is. The day he cuts aid to his muslim brethren, I’ll eat my hat.
Aid to Palestinian goes mostly to finance terror, though it is packaged as “humanitarian aid”. It has never been different. The Obama administration knows this as well, and has been lying when they were accused by the “right” about supporting terror. All Kerry y”sh could conjure up when addressing the Gaza war was that the US would donate $47 million to Hamas. Every terror move should result in withholding aid to these savages. And bigger moves should result in having the numbers reduced, so that when politics results in restoring “aid”, there is a permanent reduction already in place. These animals have been rewarded every time they attacked Israel and committed acts of terror. Stop it!
Obama cut aid to Arabs? Never happened, never gonna happen
Yes, and give it to poor blacks in USA