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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...
Some nevertheless argue that America must cut off all aid to any organization that interacts with the Palestinian government (however indirectly) in order to convey the depth of America’s disapproval of Hamas. But the U.S. has made its disgust with Hamas abundantly clear in a variety of other ways, including refusing to engage it diplomatically. Maintaining aid to moderate, reformist Palestinian NGOs will hardly undercut that message; it will in fact reinforce...
...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...
...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...