Word: palestinians
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...preliminary matter, direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority government is already barred by law, absent a rarely-used presidential waiver that such assistance is in America’s national security interests. Such a waiver will certainly not be granted as long as Hamas controls the Palestinian Legislative Council...
...plethora of reform, development and exchange programs conducted by contractors and nonprofit organizations, many funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), fall in between. USAID’s West Bank/Gaza budget of $225 million, which includes providing equipment for Palestinian schools, micro-finance loans for entrepreneurs, and rule-of-law forums for Palestinian judges, is being reassessed by the Bush administration with the intent of cutting off any aid that could benefit the Palestinian government...
...Anthony Weiner wrote a letter to Harvard President Lawrence Summers “insisting the prince had direct ties to terrorism by virtue of his membership in a government that preaches reactionary Islam.” This is usually mentioned alongside an unsubstantiated claim that the Saudi Royalty funds Palestinian terrorists—without, however, ever linking Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal to this claim. If Congressman Weiner were onto something, then it is probably safe to suppose that the American law enforcement would have intervened—as it has done with many an Islamic charity since 9/11...
Palmer accumulated an impressive guest list for his course, including some of the greatest intellectuals of our time. The most entertaining is undoubtedly the perennially controversial Chomsky, a professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT. Chomsky, who has spoken so vocally on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, offers his views on an assortment of ideas...
...think democracy should be one of our goals in foreign policy, but not the sole goal. And if there’s one thing we’ve seen, whether it’s in Iraq or the Palestinian Authority, an election alone does not make a democratic society, without the establishment of rule of law, minority rights, civil society. So no, I don’t believe that democratization alone should be the overriding principle of our foreign policy...