Aid to Terrorists

I continue to be outraged by the total lack of media coverage about the aid we supply to the Gaza Strip.  In 2011, the United States gave $100 million in aid to Gaza.  That is $100 million more than we should be giving to those people.  Keep in mind this money is all coming from American taxpayers, citizens who get up every day and go to work, only to have their hard-earned money taken away from them by our government and given to a region run by one of the worst terrorist organizations in the world.

In 2007, Hamas, one of the best-known and most violent terrorist organizations in the world, seized control of the Gaza Strip, following Israel's withdrawal from the area and handing over of it to the Palestinians.  There is always constant pressure on Israel to give away more and more of its nation to the Palestinians with promises and that giving away territory to these anit-semitic muslims will  lead to peace between them and the Palestinians.  So, with pressure from many countries, the United Nations, and even from the United States, which is supposed to be Israel's staunchest ally, Israel gave away the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians.  Gaza was promptly taken over through force by Hamas.  Since 2007, Hamas has ruled Gaza with an iron fist, leading to humanitarian problems of the highest degree for its muslim population.  Hamas withholds food and resources from the people and takes advantage of and extorts their own people in order to maintain control over the area.  Their ultimate goal is to maintain control over a region that is right next door to their sworn enemy, providing a perfect launching pad for attacks against Israel.

The humanitarian problems in Gaza have garnered global attention, and the United States, sucker that it is, has consistently provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the region, while at the same time taking no action to return control of the region to non-Hamas, non-terrorist Palestinians to whom the region was originally given to.  Now, I'm not saying the U.S. should intervene militarily to wrest control of Gaza away from Hamas, but we ought to at least cease all aid to the region until Hamas relinquishes control.

Now, when is the last time you heard even a blurb from the liberal media about the $$$ we give to Gaza?  Even Fox News, the sole conservative voice on the TV airwaves, rarely mentions anything about this distressing situation.

Regardless of whether Hamas controls of Gaza, we ought not to provide a single penny of aid to the region.  For one thing, there are thousands of regions around the world with humanitarian needs, so if we are to give aid to anyone, Gaza should be very low on the list.  Secondly, even without Hamas at the helm, the region is a hotspot of anti-semitism and a source of daily rocket attacks against Israel. 

Not enough Americans realize the depth of hatred the Palestinians and muslims in the middle east have for Israel.  For thousands of years, muslims have been dedicated to killing jews and plotting to take over the entire area from the jews.  The reasons are set out very clearly in the Koran, Islam's bible.  One of the primary goals of muslims is the elimination of jews from the face of the earth and return of the holy land to the Palestinians.  The center of this holy land is Jerusalem, Israel.  There is no negotiating with the muslims either.  They will not cease their violence against the jews until they have run them out of the area completely or killed them all, taking over all of what is currently the sovereign nation of Israel.

Every attempt at peace by Israel, usually with pressure by everyone, including the U.S., has been met with continued violence against Israel by the muslims.  The Palestinians aren't interested in peacefully living side by side with jews, and they use the global pressure for peace and overtures by Israel simply as minor victories in their war against the jews.  There can be no peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because the hatred Palestinians harbor for the jews is deeply embedded in the fabric of their culture and beliefs.  Only conversion by the Palestinians from Islam to another religion entirely would foster an atmosphere conducive to peace, and that's not likely to happen....ever.

So with that in mind, the emphasis for Israel should be a constant state of readiness to defend its homeland from attacks by Palestinians and other muslims.  And the U.S. ought to support Israel in this position rather than sucking up to the corrupt, anti-semitic U.N. and pressuring Israel to continuously make more and more useless concessions to the Palestinians.  Let's leave it up to Israel to determine what is best for their national security, and then support whatever decision(s) they make.

One of the more significant concessions that Israel has made toward peace with their enemies recently was the giving away of Gaza to the Palestinians.  As usual, this concession did nothing to foster peace, but only provided Israel's enemies with more adjacent territory from which to launch attacks against them.  After Hamas immediately took over Gaza, rendering this concession by Israel nothing more than surrender of territory to an enemy for nothing in return, Israel has blockaded ships from entering Gaza without first being searched to ensure that weapons were not being brought in to Gaza for use in their war against Israel.  This action by Israel is simply a rational national security measure taken to prevent Hamas from attacking them from their newly acquired territory.  But the global community, particularly the U.N., has been blatant in its anti-semitism in calling for Israel to stop patrolling the waters off the coast of Gaza and to let anything and everything into Gaza without inspection or prohibition.

What we have now is a small "island" called Israel, a sovereign nation, surrounded on all sides by much larger and very numerous countries that hate them and are dedicated through their religious teachings to their destruction.  Israel is continuously pressured to take another first step toward a peace which will never exist by giving away more and more of its own country to its enemies.  They sustain daily rocket attacks from adjacent territories, and terrorist attacks within its borders by its enemies.  The restraint that Israel shows in light of constant aggression and violent attacks is simply amazing, and that alone shows that it is not Israel that is preventing peace in the region.

Yet, in light of all this, we have decided that we should provide hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Gaza!  It is outrageous and should cease immediately.  I wouldn't have a problem with the U.S. staying out of the region's problems entirely - we have enough problems at home to worry about without giving away much needed money to people who are dedicated to killing the citizens of one of our greatest allies.

And the media remains silent about the flood of money going from American taxpayers to the anti-semitic, Hamas-run Gaza Strip, while continuing to call for Israel to take another first step toward peace by giving more concessions to its sworn enemies.  I find the whole situation obscene, and I wish more Americans knew the truth about the mercury rising and our assistance to the enemies of one of our greatest friends.