U.S. Should cut off aid to the middle east

The New York Sun reported that the CIA spent $86.4 million in military aid to train Palestinian "security forces" in intelligence and military tactics that the soldiers turned around and used against Israel. A senior officer in the Palestinian resistance said : "I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so successful and would have killed more than one thousand Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without these trainings. All the methods and techniques that we studied in these trainings, we applied them against the Israelis...The trainings we received from the Americans and the Europeans were a great help to the resistance." Our aid money goes to Middle Eastern countries that support terror, condone and engage in religious persecution, and are subverting the purpose of our foreign policy. Please re-read the harms and plan. I am not cutting off aid because terror exists in these countries. I am cutting it off from countries that support terror. Those that stop supporting terror will get the aid back. The resolution we are debating is specific to the Middle East, so we aren't singling them out either. The plan doesn't claim to decrease terror in the United states, but it ensures that our taxpayer dollars do not go to terrorist activities and to countries that violently persecute religious minorities. Also notice that we are cutting the economic/military aid that we send to the governments of these countries. We will still be helping groups like the Kurds. Also, we will continue to send humanitarian aid, as it goes to the people, rather than the governments. Yes, we do support terror. The P.A., for example, is entirely controlled by Hamas, a terrorist group. We send them more that a billion dollars in aid every year. Our aid is ineffective in fighting Terror. All it has done is support it. Carol Graham, a fellow at the Brookings Institute in Summer of 2012: "Given aid's mixed record in supporting economic development and reducing poverty, what can we expect from aid in the fight against terrorism? The answer, in the short term, is not much. " Nafeez Ahmed, the Middle East Eye, March 27, 2015 said, "Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked by Senator Lindsay Graham during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing whether he knew of "any major Arab ally that embraces ISIS. He said: "I know major Arab allies who fund them." Despite this knowledge, the US government has not merely refused to sanction these allies, but rewarded them by including them in the coalition that is supposed to fight the very extremist entity they are funding...Key members of our anti-ISIS coalition are bombing ISIS from the air while sponsoring them behind the scenes - with the knowledge of the Pentagon." Congressman Steve Chabot, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, May 27, 2011: "The U.S. has to quit being kicked around. We need to quit sending our tax dollars to countries that do not have our best interests in mind, especially in these economic times." Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, FoxNews.com, M arch 13, 2013: The pattern of American foreign aid is now becoming clear: "We borrow billions from China to subsidize and even prop up regimes that defy us at every turn. " Similar conditions should be placed on all U.S. aid...Let"s sequester terrorists before we sequester Americans. It makes no sense to continue funding hostile governments. And, it"s past time for America to call the Palestinian"s bluff. There should be only one path to American aid " the path to peace. Twice in the last twenty years the Israeli government has offered to establish a Palestinian homeland with a capital in East Jerusalem, and twice the Palestinians have rejected that deal " once with guns, rockets, and suicide bombs. Before the Palestinian Authority gets a single dime from American taxpayers, it must give up its dream of destroying Israel " in words and deeds, to the world and " crucially " to its own people. Stop teaching hate. Sever all ties with the terrorist thugs of Hamas. Come to the peace table without preconditions and without even a thought of destroying the nation of Israel. In other words, act like an ally. Then, we"ll think about aid." So we see that the Middle Eastern countries addressed in the first round are funding terror and even more are funding terror. Our plan is the solution. In addition, the Con side has given no evidence of their facts. They've simply used their opinion and their own logic as arguments. That's fine and good except that the Pro side has provided extensive evidence that this is an issue and that our plan will solve it. A Con vote means that the United States still sends funds to countries that fund terrorist organizations that attack our allies, countries that subvert the will of American government, and countries that willfully persecute religious minorities. A Pro vote is all that is warranted.