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Does anyone have articles and info on the status of the executive order to grant expedient immigration status to Palestinians and the 900 million allocated to them?
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June 7th, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
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Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs
Related To Gaza
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States, including section
2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of
1962 (the “Act”), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I
hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the
Act, that it is important to the national interest to
furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to
exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency
Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose
of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration
needs, including by contributions to international,
governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and
payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department
of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian
refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
June 7th, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
Here is some links. May be or may not be usefull.
https://amerpundit.com/2009/02/07/obama-signs-order-helping-palestinians-relocate-to-the-us/
https://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/02/07/obama-signs-executive-order-allowing-palestinians-loyal-to-hamas-to-resettle-in-us.php
https://www.hoax-slayer.com/obama-resettle-palestinians.shtml
June 7th, 2009 @ 3:51 pm
I will continue to research for more info on this subject.
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OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2009 — (Senate – March 09, 2009)
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Mr. KYL. Madam President, again, I wish to compliment the Egyptian Government and others who have insisted on trying to stop this smuggling. My amendment asks for a study by the Secretary of State and the DNI about whether additional taxpayer support
[Page: S2892] GPO’s PDFout of the annual appropriation for Egypt would aid in stopping this smuggling activity.
That is one of the two amendments–amendment No. 630–that will be voted on this evening. The other amendment is amendment No. 631; that is to say, if the unanimous consent agreement goes into effect, which includes the four amendments we are likely to vote on, two of those would be my amendments, No. 630 and 631.
AMENDMENT NO. 631
Let me briefly describe amendment 631. It deals with the $300 million for Gaza reconstruction that Secretary Clinton offered at the Sharm el-Sheikh Donors Conference last Monday. We don’t have details from the administration on its plans to keep the $300 million out of Hamas’s hands. Clearly, obviously, we want to do that. What we do have is a general acknowledgment by the State Department of its concern that this is important to do. Obviously, we are all aware that Hamas controls nearly every means of power and leverage in the Gaza Strip. So I don’t think we can be too careful in ensuring that none of our taxpayer dollars get into the hands of a terrorist group such as Hamas.
Section 7040(f) of the bill addresses this problem partly. It provides limitations on the disbursements of the main types of assistance funds–these are the bilateral economic assistance, international security assistance and multilateral assistance and export investment assistance–to the Palestinian Authority. So there are limitations on the funds going to the Palestinian Authority.
The problem is, some of this money goes through the United Nations and through nongovernmental organizations–the so-called NGOs. So what my amendment does is to close this loophole to ensure that none of our money goes to them and then Hamas as well. It adds the crucial step of making explicit that no funds from the omnibus shall be made available for reconstruction in Gaza until the Secretary of State certifies that no such funds will be diverted to Hamas or entities controlled by Hamas. As I said, the reason is because some of the money is going to these other organizations.
There is a recent op-ed in Forbes magazine–and I will ask for its inclusion in a moment–by Claudia Rosett, the same intrepid reporter, incidentally, who first revealed the United Nations oil-for-food scandal. In it she wrote:
On the matter of how exactly the “safeguards” will work, the State Department has been stunningly vague. At a State Department press briefing on Monday, while Clinton was in Egypt making her pledge, a spokesman said that up to $300 million would go for Gaza’s “urgent humanitarian needs” as identified by the U.N. and the Palestinian Authority. Those funds, he said, would flow via the United States Agency for International Development “in coordination with U.N. agencies, international organizations, and USAID grantees” and “through the State Department for the U.N. agencies, including the international committee of the Red Cross, and other humanitarian organizations.”
Then she further notes that one of the institutions that the U.N. uses to funnel aid to the Palestinian Authority is the Commercial Bank of Syria. Here is what she says about that:
Under Secretary Stuart Levey alleged that the bank had been used by terrorists to move money, “and as a state-owned entity with inadequate money laundering and terrorist financing controls, the Commercial Bank in Syria poses a significant risk of being used to further the Syrian Government’s continuing support for international terrorist groups.” Among the terrorist groups cited as examples of such clients were Hezbollah in Lebanon, and such denizens of Gaza as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hamas.
I ask unanimous consent that this article be printed in the Record.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:
[From Forbes magazine, Mar. 5, 2009]
Can We Give to Gaza Without Giving to Hamas?
(By Claudia Rosett)
If stuffing billions worth of aid into the Palestinian territories could end Islamist terrorism out of Gaza, it might be worth the money. That seems to be President Obama’s gamble, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jetting to a donors’ conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, this past Monday, to chip in $900 million on behalf of U.S. tax payers. All told, more than 70 countries, cheered on by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, pledged a whopping total of $4.5 billion in fresh aid to the Palestinians.
The focus was largely on repairing damage to Gaza, after Israel’s recent three-week battle to shut down mortar and rocket attacks out of the terrorist-controlled enclave. But, as Clinton described it, this is a nuanced effort. The broad aim is to bypass the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists who control Gaza, and shovel resources for strictly humanitarian uses into the enclave “in coordination with” the Palestinian Authority, which is run by the U.S.-favored Fatah faction, Hamas’ rival, based in the West Bank.
Thus the long and winding title for the Sharm el-Sheikh powwow: “The International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Economy for the Reconstruction of Gaza.” Thus, also, the confusion and contradictory news accounts over how much of the multiple billions in aid will flow to the West Bank, how much to Gaza, when and how this will happen, and who will decide.
And so, despite a record which suggests that decades of aid to the Palestinians–bilateral, multilateral, you name it–have fostered not peace, but continuing violence, here we go again. The plan this time seems to be to flood the Palestinian Authority with funds that might somehow grease the way toward somehow easing Hamas out of the cockpit in Gaza.
Speaking of her aim to “foster conditions” to create a responsible, accountable Palestinian state, living in peace with Israel, Clinton pledged that America’s $900 million in new aid to Palestinians–still to be approved by Congress–would include $300 million for Gaza. To blunt concerns that some of these taxpayer dollars might end up bankrolling Hamas, Clinton spelled out that “We have worked with the Palestinian Authority to install safeguards that will ensure that our funding is used only where, and for whom, it is intended, and does not end up in the wrong hands.”
Good luck. The downside of this gamble, and the likelier scenario, is that this new multibillion-dollar wave of aid, pouring in from many sources, will boost Hamas. In case anyone needs a reminder, Hamas is an Islamist, terrorist group, spun out of the Egyptian Sunni Muslim Brotherhood but backed and trained these days by the Shiite mullocracy of terrorist-sponsoring Iran–which looks close to acquiring a nuclear arsenal. Hamas is dedicated in its charter to the destruction of Israel and hostile in its principles to western democracy.
Hamas was elected in 2006 by a Gazan population that five years earlier had celebrated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America by handing out sweets and dancing in the streets. Hamas consolidated its control over Gaza in 2007, kicking out Fatah in a bloody battle that included fighting in hospitals and apartment buildings, and both sides throwing prisoners off rooftops. Nor does Hamas mind putting Gaza’s 1.5 million people at risk in order to pursue its terrorist “Death to Israel” agenda. Since Israel called a halt on Jan. 17 to its Operation Cast Lead, Hamas-controlled Gaza has continued to serve as a launching pad for attacks on Israel, firing more than 50 rockets, including 11 over the past weekend, one of them hitting a school in Ashkelon.
Were such attacks targeting, say, New York, one might hope they would be treated as terrorism and answered with force. But on Monday, the de facto reply of the “international community” to these assaults on Israel was to promise Gaza–already one of the developed world’s top per-capita welfare clients–billions more in aid. Clinton, while making her pledge, and detailing rosy visions of the future, made just one ritual nod to the Hamas rockets of the here-and-now: “These attacks must stop.” Expect more rockets.
As for the financial safeguards–somewhere in Gaza, or maybe Damascus or Tehran, members of Hamas must be smiling. As long as Gaza is controlled by Hamas, any aid funneled into the enclave is one dollar less that Hamas might be impelled to spend on upkeep of its turf, and one dollar more available for terrorist activities.
On the matter of how exactly the “safeguards” will work, the State Department has been stunningly vague. At a State Department press briefing on Monday, while Clinton was in Egypt making her pledge, a spokesman said that up to $300 million would go for Gaza’s “urgent humanitarian needs” as identified by the U.N. and the Palestinian Authority. Those funds, he said, would flow via United States Agency for International Development “in coordination with U.N. agencies, international organizations and USAID grantees” and “through the State Department for the U.N. agencies, [International Committee of the Red Cross] and other humanitarian organizations.”
That’s just the U.S. agenda, before we get to the even less transparent donations, such as the $1.65 billion pledged by the Gulf Arab States, to be handled out of the Saudi capital. To explore every rabbit hole on this list could be the work of an entire career. But let’s go down just one of the big ones.
Looking for further hints about what this three-ring aid circus might entail, I pulled up the Web site on Tuesday of the U.N.’s lead agency in Gaza, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, best known as UNRWA. There, on UNRWA’s home page, as of this writing, is a photo of the U.N.’s Ban Ki-moon, standing in a damaged UNRWA warehouse, backlit by what appear to be rays of the sun, during his
[Page: S2893] GPO’s PDFvisit in January to Gaza. Next to Ban’s photo is a blurb about his appeal for “crucial funds needed for Gaza’s reconstruction after the recent Israeli offensive.”
But just below Ban’s photo is where it gets interesting. The same Web page lists several banks, complete with Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) codes and account numbers through which benefactors are invited to send money to UNRWA for its “Special Gaza Appeal.”
One of them is the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria, headquartered in Damascus, which is an intriguing choice for Ban and UNRWA to condone, because for the past five years this bank has been under sanctions by the U.S. Treasury as an institution of “primary money-laundering concern.”
In 2004, Treasury imposed sanctions on the Commercial Bank of Syria alleging it had laundered illicit proceeds from the U.N.’s Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, and had also handled “numerous transactions that may be indicative of terrorist financing and money laundering.” According to Treasury, this included two accounts “that reference a reputed financier for Usama bin Laden.”
In 2006, Treasury finalized its rule, which is still current, against the Commercial Bank of Syria. Under-Secretary Stuart Levey alleged that the bank had been used by terrorists to move money, and “as a state-owned entity with inadequate money laundering and terrorist financing controls, the Commercial Bank of Syria poses a significant risk of being used to further the Syrian Government’s continuing support for international terrorist groups.” Among the terrorist groups cited as examples of such clients were Hezbollah in Lebanon, and such denizens of Gaza as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hamas.
UNRWA’s choice of this bank is all the more curious in light of the lifestyle choices of a number of Hamas leaders, such as Khaled Meshal, who are based not in Gaza, but work “in exile” in Damascus. According to a Council on Foreign Relations backgrounder released in 2006, Meshal has served Hamas from Damascus as head of the terrorist group’s politburo, and as chief strategist and fundraiser. In 2006 he was alleged by Israeli then-Vice Premier Shimon Peres to have ordered the kidnapping into Gaza of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who has not been released.
It’s hard to know whether it is of any concern to UNRWA that one of the conduits headlined by Ban Ki-moon for its Gaza relief appeal is a U.S.-censured bank, headquartered in a country that hosts Hamas leaders such as Meshal, and is designated by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism. The U.N. has no definition of terrorism. UNRWA, which employs mostly local Palestinian staff, and has never had an independent outside audit, is not bound by U.S. sanctions. My queries to UNRWA about this Syrian banking connection were answered evasively by a spokesperson, who stated in an email that “UNRWA’s strict financial regulations, and its close oversight of all resources contributed to it, serve to ensure that funds are used appropriately in our humanitarian relief activities.”
It’s likewise hard to say whether the U.S. State Department cares that U.S. funds might mingle via UNRWA with money flowing to Gaza through the Commercial Bank of Syria. My queries to the State Department received no reply.
These are, of course, busy times for American diplomacy in the Middle East. There are slows of new envoys setting out, and the new administration is stepping up “engagement” already begun during the final years of President Bush, by courting Syria as a potential U.S. partner. But if President Obama wants to try banking on multi-tiered diplomacy and massive aid to turn terrorist-infested, Iranian-armed Gaza into a place of peace, it looks like someone in his administration needs to be keeping a closer eye on who, exactly, might be cashing in on the largesse.
Mr. KYL. Madam President, I also ask that a press release from the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and members of the House Republican leadership also be printed in the Record.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:
Ros-Lehtinen, Boehner, Cantor, McCotter, Pence Question Omnibus Funding for UN Palestinian Agency Partnering With Banks Targeted by U.S.
(Washington).–U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Leader John Boehner, Republican Whip Eric Cantor, Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, and Republican Policy Committee Chairman Thaddeus McCotter called on the Senate to pull funding for UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority from a $410 billion spending bill. Statement follows:
“The Administration should withdraw its pledge to provide $900 million in bonus funding to the Palestinian Authority and Gaza reconstruction. These funds are proposed in addition to what is already included in the Omnibus appropriations bill pending in the Senate. And some of the funds will be going through UNRWA at a time when this UN agency is partnering with banks targeted by the U.S. for their roles in financing violent Islamist militants.
“We need to protect taxpayer funds from finding their way to the Commercial Bank of Syria, an UNRWA partner subject to U.S. sanctions and run by the Syrian regime. Another UNRWA partner is the Arab Bank, which is under investigation for financing Palestinian militants and suicide bombers responsible for the deaths of Israelis and Americans in Israel.
“Yet, the Senate is poised to allow millions of taxpayer dollars to go to UNRWA, which also fails to vet its own staff and aid recipients for ties to violent Islamist groups. The bailouts and spending sprees have become so vast that even violent extremists and their enabling UN agencies are getting a `piece of the pie.’ ”
BACKGROUND: UNRWA’s website solicits donations for its “Special Gaza Appeal,” and directs donors to send money to accounts with the Commercial Bank of Syria, which the U.S. Department of the Treasury has designated as a “primary money laundering concern,” and with the Arab Bank, which is reportedly under investigation by the U.S. government for financing Palestinian militant groups. Treasury also states that the Commercial Bank “has been used by terrorists to move their money and it continues to afford direct opportunities for the Syrian government to facilitate international terrorist activity and money laundering.” The Arab Bank was reportedly fined $24 million for extremist financing in 2005.
Mr. KYL. Madam President, what these all point out is that in addition to ensuring that money that goes to the Palestinian Authority doesn’t get into the hands of Hamas, which is assured by the legislation, we need to make sure that other funds that go to the United Nations or the NGOs also are not diverted to Hamas. That is what we have provided by this amendment.
Incidentally, I would say this: One of my colleagues said: Well, isn’t a secretarial certification a little bit much? My response is: Well, if the Secretary can’t certify it, we probably shouldn’t be sending taxpayer money. But I had also suggested language such as the following: That all possible steps have been taken to ensure that no such funds have been diverted by Hamas or entities controlled by Hamas. If there is any objection to the exact language of my amendment, I would be happy to amend the language to include the language I indicated.
So I hope my colleagues, when we vote at 5:30 this afternoon, will consider the arguments I have made with respect to these two amendments: to make sure that, first of all, our Egyptian friends have all the support they need to ensure that smuggling does not occur in the future and threaten the people of Israel; secondly, that no American taxpayer money is spent either through the Palestinian Authority or–and this is not controlled in the bill–through the United Nations or other NGOs to provide support to any terrorist groups, including Hamas, and my amendment would prevent that from happening.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Vermont is recognized.
Mr. LEAHY. Madam President, my friend from Arizona’s amendment No. 630 would require the Secretary of State to report on whether additional foreign military financing assistance provided for Egypt could be used to improve Egypt’s efforts to counter illegal smuggling and intercept weapons into Gaza.
We all want Egypt to intercept those weapons. So on the face of it, it appears this amendment is very appealing. But I note for my friend from Arizona that the omnibus bill already explicitly authorizes the use of FMF assistance provided to Egypt “for border security programs and activities in the Sinai.”
That was language put in by the distinguished ranking Republican member on the Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Gregg, precisely for the purpose of the Kyl amendment–to enable those funds to be used to help police the border and reduce the smuggling into Gaza.
Now, I understand there is a concern about adding amendments to this bill and sending it back to the other body. All this does, if passed, is send the bill back to the other body because what the Senator from Arizona is asking for is already in the bill. Egypt is already cooperating with Israel and the United States to reduce smuggling of weapons into Gaza. We need Egypt’s continued help. The Egyptian Government will–in fact, they already do–regard this amendment requiring a report by the Secretary of State as a public slap in the face. The distinguished Secretary
June 7th, 2009 @ 5:13 pm
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FROM WND’S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Hillary: U.S. funds won’t reach Hamas
But aid slated for agency that openly employs terrorist group
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Posted: March 02, 2009
6:37 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking today to a conference for Gaza donors
JERUSALEM – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today that a $900 million U.S. aid package for the Palestinians was meant to foster regional peace and would not fall into the hands of the Hamas terrorist organization.
But the aid is slated to be received both by a U.N. agency that openly employs Hamas as well as by the Palestinian Authority, which is in talks to create a unity government with Hamas.
“We have worked with the Palestinian Authority to install safeguards that will ensure our funding is only used where and for whom it is intended and does not end up in the wrong hands,” Clinton told a news conference at an international donors meeting in Egypt.
She repeated than no money would go to Hamas, which the U.S. maintains must recognize the right of Israel to exist, renounce terrorism and affirm past Israeli and Palestinian agreements.
(Story continues below)
The U.S. considers Hamas a terrorist group. Hamas’ charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of Israel. The group is responsible for scores of deadly suicide bombings, shooting attacks, border raids and rocket launchings aimed at Jewish civilian population centers.
The $900 million U.S. in funding – not yet approved by Congress – includes $300 million earmarked to provide “humanitarian aid” for Gaza following Israel’s 22-day war there aimed at denting Hamas’ terrorist infrastructure.
A U.S. official reported the money will go to the PA and to nongovernmental organizations, most notably the United Nations Relief and Work Agency, or UNWRA, which administers aid to millions of Palestinian “refugees” in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Israeli security officials warned that since Hamas controls the Gaza Strip, any reconstruction efforts in the territory are likely to bolster Hamas, whether the Islamist group directly receives the funds or not. They also said the PA has previously used donor funds to pay salaries for Hamas officials and the terrorist group’s police force in Gaza, which includes scores of terrorists among its ranks.
Further, Hamas and the soon-to-be cash-infused PA are in talks to join a unity government. The talks are said to be favored by the Obama administration.
In recent meetings with representatives of donor countries, Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu warned that infusing the Hamas-controlled Gaza with funds or construction efforts before Hamas stopped firing rockets at Israel would send a message to the terrorist group that it can continue its onslaught with little consequence.
Netanyahu also reportedly said reconstructing Gaza with international aid could make it more difficult for Israel to launch a future anti-terror operation in the territory since the Israeli army may hit locations rebuilt with foreign donations.
Reacting to the news of the pledged U.S. funds, Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, recently told WND, “We are very happy with this decision.”
“In the first place, this money will go toward reconstructing efforts,” said Barhoum, speaking by cell phone from Gaza.
Hamas, UNWRA closely linked
The $900 million is also slated for UNWRA. From 1990 until today, teachers affiliated with the Islamic Bloc, which is formally associated with Hamas, have won elections as representatives of the teachers’ section of the UNRWA union. By 2003, they held all seats and fully constituted the executive committee of this section of the union. The publication of UNWRA school books in Gaza is coordinated with Hamas.
Saeed Siam, Hamas former interior minister and one of the leaders of the group’s so-called military wing, taught in UNRWA schools from 1980 to 2003 and served as a representative to the UNWRA union. He was killed during an Israeli air strike last month.
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the man who founded Hamas and has been immortalized by it, worked as a UNRWA teacher from 1967 to 1994.
On July 6, 2001, Hamas convened a conference in the UNRWA school in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza, with students, teachers and school administrators in attendance. Yassin presented his ideology, and then an official named Saheil Alhinadi, who represented the teaching sector of UNRWA, praised students who had recently carried out suicide attacks against Israel, declaring “the road to Palestine passes through the blood of the fallen, and these fallen have written history with parts of their flesh and their bodies.”
A 2002 report from the Intelligence and Terrorism Center at Israel’s Center for Special Studies, a think tank associated with Israeli intelligence, documented how a number of wanted terrorists were found hiding inside schools run by UNRWA.
“A large number of youth clubs operated by UNRWA in the refugee camps were discovered to be meeting places for terrorists,” said the report.
Muhammad Ali Hassan, a Hamas terrorist arrested in February 2002, confessed he had carried out a sniper shooting from the school run by UNRWA in the al-Ayn refugee camp near Nablus, or biblical Shechem. He also reportedly told his interrogators that bombs intended for terrorist attacks were being manufactured inside the school’s facilities.
Nidal Abd al-Fattah Abdallah Nazzal, a Hamas activist from Kalkilya, was arrested in August 2002. He had been employed as an ambulance driver by UNRWA. He confessed during his interrogation that he had transported weapons and explosives in an UNRWA ambulance to terrorists.
Additional information about arrests of UNRWA employees by Israel came in 2003 from the U.S. General Accounting Office, which was charged with conducting an investigation of UNRWA operations. The office found that in three instances Israeli military courts convicted UNRWA employees of involvement with explosives.
More recently, in the time leading up to and since the Hamas takeover of Gaza in the summer of 2007, there has been concern in Jerusalem about UNRWA camps being used for the manufacture, storage, and launching of rockets and mortars into Israel. Also, camp residents have been suspected of active involvement in launching missiles and infiltrating shooters and suicide bombers into Israel.
June 7th, 2009 @ 5:15 pm
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FROM WND’S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Hamas ‘happy’ with Obama’s $900 million pledge
Funds earmarked for U.N. agency that openly employs terrorists
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Posted: February 24, 2009
11:16 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Fawzi Barhoum
TEL AVIV, Israel – Hamas is “very happy” with a pledge this week from the Obama administration to provide $900 million in aid for rebuilding the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, a spokesman from the Islamist organization told WND.
“We are very happy with this decision,” said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, speaking by cell phone from Gaza. “In the first place, this money will go toward reconstructing efforts.”
Barhoum said he expects the money to be tightly controlled. He said the funds are likely to be delineated to the Palestinian Authority and to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency, or UNWRA, which administers aid to millions of Palestinian “refugees” in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Hamas has a close relationship with UNWRA; the agency openly employs a large number of Hamas members, including some of the group’s most senior terrorists.
(Story continues below)
The U.S. aid has not yet been officially approved by Congress. The package is expected to be formally announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she attends an international Gaza donors conference in Egypt next week. A U.S. official reported the money will not reach Hamas but will go instead to nongovernmental organizations, most notably UNWRA. Still, the terrorist organization controls the Gaza Strip. Any reconstruction efforts in the territory are likely to bolster Hamas.
Hamas, UNWRA closely linked
From 1990 until today, teachers affiliated with the Islamic Bloc, which is formally associated with Hamas, have won elections as representatives of the teachers’ section of the UNRWA union. By 2003, they held all seats and fully constituted the executive committee of this section of the union. The publication of UNWRA school books in Gaza is coordinated with Hamas.
Saeed Siam, Hamas former interior minister and one of the leaders of the group’s so-called military wing, taught in UNRWA schools from 1980 to 2003 and served as a representative to the UNWRA union. He was killed during an Israeli air strike last month.
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the man who founded Hamas and has been immortalized by it, worked as a UNRWA teacher from 1967 to 1994.
On July 6, 2001, Hamas convened a conference in the UNRWA school in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza, with students, teachers and school administrators in attendance. Yassin presented his ideology, and then an official named Saheil Alhinadi, who represented the teaching sector of UNRWA, praised students who had recently carried out suicide attacks against Israel, declaring “the road to Palestine passes through the blood of the fallen, and these fallen have written history with parts of their flesh and their bodies.”
A 2002 report from the Intelligence and Terrorism Center at Israel’s Center for Special Studies, a think tank associated with Israeli intelligence, documented how a number of wanted terrorists were found hiding inside schools run by UNRWA.
“A large number of youth clubs operated by UNRWA in the refugee camps were discovered to be meeting places for terrorists,” said the report.
Muhammad Ali Hassan, a Hamas terrorist arrested in February 2002, confessed he had carried out a sniper shooting from the school run by UNRWA in the al-Ayn refugee camp near Nablus, or biblical Shechem. He also reportedly told his interrogators that bombs intended for terrorist attacks were being manufactured inside the school’s facilities.
Nidal Abd al-Fattah Abdallah Nazzal, a Hamas activist from Kalkilya, was arrested in August 2002. He had been employed as an ambulance driver by UNRWA. He confessed during his interrogation that he had transported weapons and explosives in an UNRWA ambulance to terrorists.
Additional information about arrests of UNRWA employees by Israel came in 2003 from the U.S. General Accounting Office, which was charged with conducting an investigation of UNRWA operations. The office found that in three instances Israeli military courts convicted UNRWA employees of involvement with explosives.
More recently, in the time leading up to and since the Hamas takeover of Gaza in the summer of 2007, there has been concern in Jerusalem about UNRWA camps being used for the manufacture, storage, and launching of rockets and mortars into Israel. Also, camp residents have been suspected of active involvement in launching missiles and infiltrating shooters and suicide bombers into Israel
June 7th, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
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.U.S. plans $900 million pledge for Gaza
Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:26pm GMT
Email | Print | Share| Single Page[-] Text [+] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to pledge more than $900 million (621 million pounds) to help rebuild Gaza after Israel’s invasion and strengthen the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, a U.S. official said on Monday.
The money will be channelled through U.N. and other bodies and will not be distributed via the militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to make the announcement next week at a Gaza donors conference in Egypt.
(Reporting by Sue Pleming)
June 7th, 2009 @ 5:56 pm
Here are a couple links:
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29352401/
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29450680/
June 7th, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/PresidentialActions/
June 10th, 2009 @ 4:25 am
Perhaps posters could give links to long articles rather that copying the entire article into their post? It takes up a lot of space, and the articles are easier to read on their original site.
God bless, Dr. Taitz!
June 10th, 2009 @ 4:28 am
Dr. Taitz,
My above comment was about people’s comments to your posts. It was not about your blog posts that you write. I wasn’t very clear in my above post! :o)