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Congress Stops $200 mill to Palestinians
By Micah Halpern

Tuesday October 4, 2011

I've Been Thinking:

The US Congress has frozen $200 million promised as aid to the Palestinians.

Congress is holding the feet of the Palestinians to the fire. By stopping the funding Congress is saying that the Palestinians must embrace negotiations without preconditions with Israel in order to continue getting money from the United States.

The Obama administration is lobbying Congress to keep the money flowing. The White House thinks that stopping aid will do irrevocable damage to the Palestinian infrastructure.

The Palestinians, for their part, are convinced that they will continue to get the US aid.

Popular thought is that the difference in the funding would be picked up by petrol rich Arab countries. That is not clear or guaranteed.

This year alone the United States is scheduled to give $900 million to the Palestinians and only a fraction of that money will be picked up by the Saudis and other Arab countries.

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