It restricts the money from going to the “Palestinian” government or to jihad terror groups, but money is fungible. If you give me something for food and say “Don’t use it for terrorism,” I can honor your request while still using other money that I had planned to use for food for terrorism instead. This is a basic point that seems to elude our moral superiors.
Yes, the bill gives money to Israel as well. There are no restrictions on funding for Israel and no one need fear that the Israelis will fund terrorism. However, none of this funding should be in the bill. It should be for the relief of Americans only, as only Americans are paying for it.
“Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Funds Hundreds of Millions in Aid to Palestinians,” by Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart, December 21, 2020 (thanks to Ken):
The coronavirus relief bill released Monday includes $250 million in investment aid for the Palestinians and for encouraging Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in a provision titled the “Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act of 2020.”
The provision, named for retiring Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), is buried deep within the nearly 6,000-page legislative text.
Citing economic stagnation in the Palestinian Territories, and the potential for economic development to encourage peace, the Lowey Act would spend $50 million per year for the next five years. A version of the act passed the House in July….
The act prohibits the funding from being used to aid any foreign government, including the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It also prohibits funds from being given to any group deemed to be involved in, or encouraging, terrorist activity.
Congress limited funding to the Palestinian Authority in 2018 under the Taylor Force Act, which prevents U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to the Palestinian government while it continues to pay stipends to terrorists and their families.
President Donald Trump has also cut other forms of U.S. funding to the Palestinians. His Middle East peace plan, introduced earlier this year, provides for a two-state solution, on condition that the Palestinian state be demilitarized and reject terrorism.
THX 1138 says
“It should be for the relief of Americans only, as only Americans are paying for it.”
Mr. Spencer, are you trying to promote and defend a morality of RATIONAL SELFISHNESS? But don’t you know that we are taught from birth to death that selfishness is evil and altruism is our highest moral ideal and duty?
Altruism is an EVIL morality of death and destruction and until the world learns that moral FACT the world will keep perishing froman orgy of altruism! The “moral” myth of Robin Hood must be discredited and destroyed if we are ever to defeat our American Robin Hood Mafia, our thieving, looting, parasitical, vampire, ruling class!
“”It is said that [Robin Hood] fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don’t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures — the double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and the blood of the rich — whom men have come to regard as a moral ideal. And this has brought us to a world where the more a man produces, the closer he comes to the loss of all his rights, until, if his ability is great enough, he becomes a rightless creature delivered as prey to any claimant — while in order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed where anything is permitted to him, even plunder and murder, all a man has to do is be in need. Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting… Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive.” – Ayn Rand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-jhmkcOGAA
LB says
I can’t tell if this is some next level sarcasm or not.
gravenimage says
Not sarcasm.
Of course, pretending that the recipient of charity makes no difference is also bizarre.
CogitoErgoSum says
I always thought Robin Hood simply took back from the rich what the rich themselves had taken from others. He was not really stealing but actually returning stolen goods to the rightful owners and correcting injustices. What did the rich in the Robin Hood story ever do to earn their riches? They did not create their wealth by the sweat of their own brow but rather had confiscated what they had through a corruption of the system of government which occurred due to rule of the wicked John, who was pretending to be King but was not rightfully the King while Richard still lived. So John and all his rich cronies were acting illegally and Robin Hood and his men were fighting against them. Looked at this way I suppose what Robin Hood took could be viewed as the spoils of war. At least that is the overall lesson I took away from the story.
Infidel says
Somebody on Parler was dong the math yesterday. Divide $9,000,000,000 by 330,000,000, which is the US population, and you’ll get an amount of $2700. Which is decent and would cover rent/mortgage and food for everyone who gets them
Instead, we’re being told that we only get $600. And this is where all that money is going – Palestinians, Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Cambodia, Nepal and Burma (those were the countries I saw in the Parley, I’m sure there were others as well). Of the non-muslim countries listed, I’d normally not object to Israel getting it, if we ourselves didn’t need the money (forget the fact that all this is debt-financing). Of the others, Nepal has a communist government that has just dissolved parliament and stopped being Beijing’s stooge after discovering that China had shifted their border post to claim territory. Cambodia is a client state of Beijing, since Vietnam has reformed and is no longer interested in colonizing its neighbors. Burma is bizarre: on one hand, we bunch them w/ Muslim countries as being ‘countries of particular concern’, but then turn around and offer them aid. Which is it?
The sad thing is that the president will sign it, since he’s already gonna see the defense bill veto overriden
curious george says
Billions Going to Foreign Aid in Spending Bill: ‘Gender Programs’ in Pakistan, Sri Lankan Ship Refurbishments
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/21/billions-going-to-foreign-aid-in-spending-bill-gender-programs-in-pakistan-sri-lankan-ship-refurbishments/
This is the beginning of the end. The worst is yet to come. Batten down the hatches.
Infidel says
Yeah, the Paki ‘gender program’ would probably be the one where they sell their non-muslim women to China. That’s in our ‘Covid’ bill
PRCS says
This is not another “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it” exercise in political idiocy.
After all, Members of Congress were afforded at least two or three days to read, to comprehend, and to challenge that multi-thousand page bill before, before voting on it.
What’s the problem?
Infidel says
No they weren’t. They were given 6 hours to read a 6000 page bill. Try doing it!
PRCS says
Was kidding.
gravenimage says
This is, sadly, *very* common. Most of these large bills have all sorts of obscure riders that most members of Congress either miss or are unable to grasp the significance of.
PRCS says
Would be good to learn which of our ‘leaders’ inserted those riders. Who in particular thought paying for gender studies in Pakistan with American tax dollars would be a good idea? Pakistani Muslims must be laughing so hard at our foolishness.
LB says
HOOOOO BOY! This is one spicy meatball!
What’s funny is that this $900,000,000,000 (nine hundred billion) “Covid Relief Bill” is attached to the sum total budget year spending bill of $2,300,000,000,000 (two point three trillion). So that means $900B for “covid” and $1.4T for everything else, including foreign aid. What’s interesting is the fact that both of those are mired and intermingled in the 5500+ pages of the Bill so that no one can tell which is which.
Here is the full list of countries getting direct foreign aid:
– $1,400,000,000 to Asia R.I.A (this isn’t a country, it’s some policy titled “Indo-Pacific Strategy and the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018 (Public Law 12 115–409)”. No idea what it is.)
– $1,300,000,000 to Egypt
– $1,200,000,000 to UN
– $700,000,000 to Sudan
– $500,000,000 to Israel
– $453,000,000 to Ukraine
– $135,000,000 to Burma
– $130,000,000 to Nepal
– $85,500,000 to Cambodia
– $25,000,000 to Pakistan
“Palestinians” do get the $250,000,000 but through a “dialogue encouragement” with Israel, so it’s technically not direct aid to “Palestine” itself.
Here are some other honorable mentions of what this Bill gives money to:
– $10,000,000 to gender programs…. IN PAKISTAN! (no joke)
– $15,000,000 to democracy programs also in Pakistan
– $128,421,000 to federal workers with HIV stationed abroad for leisure spending
– $193,400,000 to federal workers with HIV stationed abroad to buy new cars
– $26,400,000 to Kennedy Center
– $1,500,000 to “Office of Diversity and Inclusion”, whatever that is
– $8,000,000 to Biden’s presidential transition
– $1,000,000,000 (one billion) to the Smithsonian
– $154,000,000 to National Art Gallery
– $167,000,000 to National Art & Humanities
– $14,000,000 to Woodrow Wilson Center
There are also funds for various completely irrelevant things such as: investigations of 1908 Springfield, IL race riots, funding a museum of “the life, art, history and culture of women”, addressing “gender inequality” of statues in the US National Statuary Hall, and many other such garbage which is impossible to fit in a single comment.
Last but not least, The Bill also prescribes new “diversity hiring measures” in the Intelligence community (section 322, page 604). In other words — more women, gays, muslims and people of color in CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies. What can possibly go wrong, you racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic bigot?!
Seriously though, if this bill doesn’t get you Americans up in arms, LITERALLY, I don’t know what will. First they steal your elections, than they steal your money and leave you to starve to death. Will you just give up and die as you are expected to do?
Grace says
Fortunatly President Trump has threatened to veto this monster unless the foreign goodies are pared down and Americans get more money, 2.000.00 a piece or 4.000.00 per couple. He has exposed congress for what it is on both sides of the isle. For years it has been a ‘one hand washes the other’ business deal and the lobbyists control the money. The American congress needs a good housecleaning from back to front and term limits to stop the nepotism. To accomplish that would be the presidents greatest greatest gift to the Republic. .
CogitoErgoSum says
If the provisions of the bill were limited simply to relief for those Americans affected by the covid lockdowns every man, woman and child (even little babies) in the U.S. (who are citizens) could receive $2,000.00 apiece and the total expenditure would still be less than $900 billion. When I multiply $2,000 times 350 million I get $700 billion.
CogitoErgoSum says
BTW, if any U.S. citizen wanted to take his relief money and send it to another country (such as Israel or Pakistan) through a registered charity couldn’t he do so?
kingdaddyrabbit says
In case everybody wants to know where the other $600 dollars of their stimulus money went, well, now you know. It went to fund the Palestinian Muslim jihad against the Jewish non-Muslim infidels in tiny Israel.
As the Palestinian Muslims, exactly like all Muslims in the world, are waging a civilizational holy war that Allah defines as a jihad preemptively against all non-Muslim infidels in the world without provocation in the cause of Allah, to ultimately establish the global Kingdom of Allah on earth via the eventual worldwide imposition of Sharia.
As all non-Muslim infidels in the world are in the same exact boat together with the Jewish non-Muslim infidels in tiny Israel.
Rich Cole says
Why are we giving money to a group of people that continue to live a lie. There is no such people on earth called “Palestinians”, they do not exist and never have! They are Arabs most of which are Hashemites from the Kingdom of Jordan. Read the history of t he area. Only an idiot would continue to believe this bunk.
curious george says
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The late Joan Peters in her book, “From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine” expertly exposed the lie of the so called “Palestinians.”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
— Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945)
E T says
Exactly George, the MSM told us before the election Biden would win and now they have cemented that thought. Biden won, Biden won, Biden won. Stay home, stay safe, and wear your mask. Stay home, stay safe and wear your mask. Stay home, stay safe and wear your mask.
OR
Do not believe the Marxists, Fight for your freedom and stand up for what is right
Do not listen to the MSM liars, go to work as usual and live your life.
Just say no, stop the steal. Stop the Marxists.
Prince Eugene says
If the USGov gives Palestinian terrorists dollars for food warning, “Don’t use this money for terrorism,” then Palestinians laugh and buy food, weapons, terrorists and pensions for the families of dead Jihadis with the $250,000,000 donation by chump America — a fungible point that our moral superiors ignore.
gravenimage says
Coronavirus relief bill gives $250,000,000 to ‘Palestinians’
……………….
Utter madness. More American taxpayer money for Jihad terror.
Mojdeh says
Let’s do this! Nancy Pelosi AGREES with Donald Trump after he threatened to VETO relief bill unless Congress increases checks from $600 to $2,000 and ditch ‘wasteful’ spending
Trump tweets address from the White House almost 24 hours after Congress overwhelmingly passes massive COVID relief and spending package
The twin bills come with $900 billion of economic aid, including $600 checks for most people, and $300-a-week unemployment boost
The spending portion keeps the government from shutting down
They passed the House 359-53 in the House and the Senate 91-7 – both veto-proof figures
But Trump, who sat out months of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans, demanded ‘a suitable bill’ in what seemed to be a veto threat
Trump said it would be up to ‘the next administration’ to deliver a relief package if he does not get a suitable bill
He suggested he could succeed in overturning the election result before January 20 saying ‘maybe that administration will be me’
Pelosi embraced the idea and House Democrats will vote on it on Christmas Eve
Sen. Lindsay Graham also voiced support, urging Congress to ‘go further’
Trump #1
OLD GUY says
The American people need to put foreign aid on the ballot. The federal government should not be in the charity/foreign aid business with our tax dollars. American tax dollars should be spent on American infrastructure and people, not foreign governments. Using our tax dollars to bribe foreign governments on behalf of corporations or supporting leaders of countries bank accounts is wrong. The current foreign aid system is a treasure chest for politicians and foreign governments.
E T says
Agenda 21
somehistory says
Slightly OT
https://seculardems.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SecularDemocratsofAmerica_Blueprint_BidenHarrisTransition_11-30-20_FINAL.pdf
“DOCUMENT: Forget the war on Christmas, YOU are the next target” (Glenn Beck)
This concerns everyone, not just those who are Christians, nor those that celebrate Christmas for whatever reason one may do so.
They have put in writing all of the things they want biden/harris to undo that Mr. Trump has done, and go back to what ‘o’ was doing….and more. They claim it’s getting back to the Constitution, but that is baloney. And they are promoting islam, to boot., while claiming to be purely secular.
It’s a long document, and small font, but everyone should read it before they begin to really implement it all.
job says
Never give money to those who hate you.
gravenimage says
Succinct and to the point.
Walter Sieruk says
The “Palestinians” should pray to their god Allah for relief from coronavirus and not attempt to milk many from America for COVID -19 relief.
After all Allah is responsible for coronavirus
This is because by the reading from the Quran it’s very obvious Allah is responsible for that starting and continuing the plague of coronavirus
What a cruel and vicious god, Allah is.
For when getting down to basic Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .
This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty of infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.
Nevertheless, all Christians and Jews shout not lose faith and heart in the God of the Bible as vicious by sending coronavirus on people.
This is because the god of Islam is should be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “
Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”
In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
Bezelel says
Brought to you by the same people who are trying to convince us that retarded senile money grubbing campaign from his basement biden and his sidekick harris the chickenhead marxist actually got 80,000,000 votes!!!