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Letter to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton Prompts Aid to Gaza
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by Karen Hatter | February 2, 2009 at 01:24 pm
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Obama's move does not represent a fundamental shift in U.S. policy with regard to the Middle East.
But it does represent a quick and appropriate response to the letter sent this week to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by almost sixty members of Congress, urging the Obama Administration to give immediate attention to what one of the signers, Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, correctly described as "the dire situation that exists today in Gaza."
- from the The Nation
This above excerpt is from an article entitled, Obama Releases Aid for Gaza.
The money will be distributed by the relief agencies, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
$21.3 million in aid will be released from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance (ERMA) Fund.
The article includes text of the letter sent to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Recommendations (14)
dowdinsk
Dalston, London, United Kingdom
lefty_liberated
New York, New York, United States
Blue Crush
Toronto, Canada
Pythiian1
New York, New York, United States
Fripouille
Lyon, France
con10t
Canada
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at 16:34 on February 2nd, 2009
I agree with moonwolf. Israel should pay for reconstruction not other countries taxpayers.
at 16:59 on February 2nd, 2009
Not only is the tab Israel's for reasons listed above, it is a component in trust-building and will to forge peace.
at 17:24 on February 2nd, 2009
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the various "who should pay" hypotheses, I personally think that if we wait for Israel to pay, whether they should or not, we're gonna wait a long time.
Therefore it's only right that the US, like Britain, France, Europe, the UN and others, should not be discouraged from alleviating the urgent, obvious, and immediate plight of Palestinian civilians. They don't care where the money comes from. They want, and need, help. And they want it now. I live and pay taxes in France. I support French efforts to help Gazans with my money.
The rest is just theory and rhetoric, however "right" or "wrong" it may be....
Thanks.
at 17:50 on February 2nd, 2009
It's more than likely that the U.S. will end up footing the bill for these aids, as history has indicated that the U.S. has been providing annual aids to Israel over numerous White House administrations.
at 10:19 on February 3rd, 2009
I agree with Fripouille, the people in Gaza can't wait they need help now. However, the least the US administration should do is to to stop supplying Israel with the most modern and sophisticated war equipment on this planet. The equipment they used in Lebanon three years ago and now in Gaza. They killed thousands of innocent children, women and men with taxpayers money from the USA!
at 04:26 on February 24th, 2009
How in these economic times can one of our leaders take 900 million and give it to another country,especially one who causes the turmoil that Gaza does.We have Americans losing thier homes,how many would 900 million keep off the streets? I guess that wouldn't be "politically correct " to help her own countrymen.Charity begins at home,guess not.Sounds like a ploy to look good to people who don't like us and don't care about any of the values that we hold dear.I wonder how much of that 900 million the people of Gaza helped you earn,that's right it was Americans who helped you earn that money.They'll just blow it up again anyway.I guess kissing babies to get elected in this country is a prerequiste to kissing butt abroad.
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at 14:21 on March 9th, 2009
I think that the Arab and Islamic nations should pay for both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and reimburse the United States for the direct and indirect costs of 9/11.
at 18:48 on March 17th, 2009
Speaking of Mrs. Clinton:
There is bad news about her husband.
It is opined that Bill Clinton committed racist hate crimes, and I am not free to say anything further about it.
Respectfully Submitted by Andrew Y. Wang, J.D. Candidate
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
(I can type 90 words per minute, and there are probably thousands of copies on the Internet indicating the content of this post.)
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