Your tax dollars at work: US sends aid money to Gaza, now Hamas wants to 'audit' the NGO's who pass it on

You probably all figured (as I did) that since Hamas took over, the US doesn't send any aid money directly to Gaza (only indirectly via the 'Palestinian Authority' and UNRWA). But the New York Times reported on Thursday that the US is threatening to suspend aid to Gaza, and that means they've been sending it directly until now. And the reason for the suspension? This is rich: Hamas wants to '

Video: Interview with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on stripping US foreign aid from the terrorists

Here's an interview on Newsmax.com with Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl), the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in which she discusses her plan to strip $6.5 billion in foreign aid from the United Nations, Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan and the 'Palestinian Authority' unless they clean up their acts.Let's go to the videotape.Ros-Lehtinen is not eligible to run for President

House Appropriations Subcommittee conditions aid to 'Palestinians,' Egypt, Lebanon

On Wednesday, the US House Appropriations Subcommittee for Foreign Operations is scheduled to review the foreign operations budget for fiscal 2012. The budget provides over $3 billion in aid to Israel, but establishes conditions for aid to the 'Palestinians,' Egypt and Lebanon. It also contains $513 million for the Palestinian Authority, though in order to receive any of the money dedicated for

Your tax dollars at work paying terrorists

In a report to Congress, Palestinian Media Watch has confirmed what I reported previously, namely that the 'Palestinian Authority' is using American aid money to pay salaries to 'Palestinian' terrorists being held in Israeli prisons. But they have also quantified it: The 'Palestinian Authority' is paying over $5 million per month from US aid money to terrorists in violation of US law. In effect,

Sky News' Tim Marshall has an epiphany

Sky News' Tim Marshall has just discovered that all those luxury hotels and restaurants in Ramallah and Gaza are being paid for by your tax money and mine. Even if the Palestinians declare full statehood in September they would not be truly independent, not only because of the continuing Israeli occupation, checkpoints, lack of freedom of movement of goods etc, but also because Palestine is