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Congress puts the brakes on $200 million in ransom to Abbas. Obama scrambles to find it elsewhere. Needs the "Kill-the-Jews" vote

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPol...aspx?id=240435

"We still have some money in the pipeline but the concern is that if we don't get this going with the Congress in short order there could be an effect on the ground," Nuland told a news briefing.

"There have been some concerns in some parts of Congress and we are trying to work through those," she said.

Lawmakers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives have moved in recent weeks to freeze the flow of aid to the Palestinians that had been appropriated for fiscal year 2011.

Representative Kay Granger, the Republican chairwoman of the House subcommittee that oversees foreign aid, placed her hold in August "until the issue of statehood is resolved" at the United Nations, her spokesman, Matt Leffingwell, said.

[Peptobismol]

If you were wealthy enough, would you give $200 million to some organisation without wanting to know how it was spent? I dissagree with any donations to a terrorist country but then there are fools who dissagree with me. In situations where such vast sums of money are thrown away, America should insist that it sends a firm of accountants to monitor the end use for this charitable donation. Am I being too simplistic here or is $200 million not worth worying about? I know of one American who is struggling through Uni and trying to work evenings at the same time to pay his way. TBH I would be helping him first with his fathers taxes.