The United States Should Cut Direct Budgetary Aid to the Palestinian Authority

Now the Con side seems to be saying that this aid is going towards a good cause, that it"s helping the people of Palestine. If that were true, there would be no reason to stop aid, but unfortunately the money is not going to the people, but to the government, and therefore to terrorists. I have 4 responses to this point. 1. 'Humanitarian Aid' Has Been Used Against Israel In The Past SOURCE: Cal Thomas, (an American syndicated columnist, pundit, author and radio commentator. He attended the American University for his undergraduate education. He has written 10 books, including Blinded By Might, that discussed, among other things, the role of the Moral Majority in American politics of the 1980s.), October 15th, 2014, Laurence Journal World, (a daily newspaper published in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, by The World Company.), "Opinion: Aid to Palestinians is misguided" http://www2.ljworld.com... "Last weekend at a conference of donor nations held in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss rebuilding Gaza, following the latest exchange of rockets between Hamas and Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry pledged an additional $212 million in U.S. aid for the project, nearly doubling the total U.S. commitment (so far). The Palestinian Authority claims rebuilding could cost $4 billion. The aid is promised before the terrorist war against Israel is over and without a promise by Hamas or the Palestinian Authority that there won"t be future attacks against the Jewish state. In fact, if history is a guide " and it is, though the State Department pays little attention to history " after the rebuilding of Gaza, there is likely to be more war made against Israel. Previous aid, which was supposed to go for "infrastructure" and other nonmilitary purposes, was reportedly used instead to build tunnels stretching into Israel that Hamas planned to use for suicide bombers and other attacks. Only Israel"s cross-border assault and targeting of the tunnels prevented the potential of mass Israeli casualties." 2. The Palestinian Aid Program is Corrupt SOURCE: Mohammed Othman, (a journalist from the Gaza Strip. He graduated from the Faculty of Media in the Department of Radio and Television at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza in 2009.), October 23, 2014, Al-Moniter, (a media site launched in February 2012 by Jamal Daniel and based in Washington, DC. Al-Monitor provides reporting and analysis from and about the Middle East through both original and translated content.), "Gaza relief efforts overrun by corruption, inefficiency" http://www.al-monitor.com... "Ayman Ayesh, told Al-Monitor that the department had uncovered a multitude of thefts. He said, "We arrested a member of an organization that had received special aid for the displaced, following complaints indicating that he was stealing from the organization headed by one of his relatives. The financial reports submitted by these organizations to the donors, according to Abu Mandeel, have been "doctored." 3. They Have Enough Money To Rebuild Gaza Already SOURCE: Times of Israel, (a Jerusalem-based online newspaper founded in 2012 to document developments in Israel, the Middle East and around the Jewish world. The Times of Israel has no partisan political affiliation. It seeks to present the news fair-mindedly and offers a wide range of analysis and opinion pieces.), October 12th, 2014, "Israel fails to tie rebuilding Gaza to disarming Hamas" http://www.timesofisrael.com... "In all, the donor countries pledged $5.4 billion for Gaza, according to conference co-host Norway, $1.4 billion more than the $4 billion that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said Gaza would need to rebuild." 4. We can give Humanitarian Aid through other Programs The United States isn"t limited to giving money to the government. We could help the Palestinian people by giving money to UNRWA, or the Red Cross, which would be more effective ways of helping the actual people. It is incorrect to assume that all the Palestinians will drop dead if we take away our money. The so called humanitarian aid we currently give isn"t even getting to the people, and other countries have pledged more than plenty to help the people and rebuild Gaza PLEASE Understand that my argument is not that we should never aid the people or support them, simply not the Unity Government of the Palestinian Authority with Hamas. I would Appreciate it if the Con side would actually respond to me points.