Democrat Senators need to be
replaced. They are Diane Feinstein CA, Patrick Leahy VT, Chris Coons DE, Chris
Van Hollen MD, Catherine Masto NV and Jeff Merkley OR.
These 6 Democrat Senators Sold
Out Jewish Terror Victims To Restore Cash To Islamic Jihadis, by Daniel
Greenfield, 4/24/19.
In 2002, Shmuel Waldman, an American from New
Jersey, was shot while boarding a bus in Israel.
The terrorist attack killed 2 people and left 40 injured. Among that 40 was
Shmuel whose leg was blown apart, forcing him to undergo multiple
surgical procedures, and leaving him suffering from PTSD.
The terrorist who shot him was Said
Ramadan, a “police officer” working for the terrorists who run the Palestinian
Authority. The attack had been planned by senior Palestinian Authority
officials and the Palestinian Authority viewed Ramadan as a hero. Waldman
joined other victims of terrorism in a lawsuit against the terrorist group, which is funded by American
taxpayers, under the Antiterrorism Act.
Waldman v. PLO resulted in a record
award of $655 million in damages against the Palestinian Authority terror
network. But the verdict was thrown out because an American court lacked
jurisdiction over the terrorist group even though the United States provides
much of the cash flow that its terrorists rely on.
The Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act was
introduced and approved to make it clear that accepting security assistance for
its "police force" would place the Palestinian Authority under
judicial jurisdiction for lawsuits such as these. The PA could stop funding
terrorism or face lawsuits from its victims.
A ruthless battle was waged against ATCA
by a variety of groups which understood that the Palestinian Authority would
not stop funding and promoting terrorism under any circumstances. These groups
falsely claimed that ATCA would undermine American and Israeli security. That
was a blatant lie. The only thing that ATCA would undermine was the flow of tax
dollars to Islamic terrorists.
Last year, the Palestinian Authority
informed the United States that the terror group would no longer accept any aid from
the United States that would expose it to ATCA lawsuits. The terror group’s
letter suggested that it might revisit its refusal if the law were changed.
That’s just what 6 Democrat senators, led by Senator Dianne Feinstein have set
out to do, using the false claim of a humanitarian disaster.
“President Trump’s refusal to provide
humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people is a strategic mistake,” Senator
Feinstein claimed, accusing him of "denying funding for clean water,
health care and schools in the West Bank and Gaza."
Senator Chris Coons urged, “It is
critical that we restore lifesaving aid to the West Bank and Gaza.” Senator
Jeff Merkley insisted that, “Aid to innocent civilians should not be caught up
in broader geopolitical battles. We can and should restore aid to children and
other vulnerable populations at the same time as we stand steadfastly by Israel’s
security.”
But the real agenda revealed by
their resolution shows that it’s not about humanitarian aid, but about
restoring funding to the Islamic terrorists of the Palestinian Authority.
While Feinstein claims that Trump is
preventing “clean water” and “health care” aid, her own resolution actually
begins by admitting that, “the Palestinian Authority’s interpretation of the
Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act… led the Palestinian Authority to reject all
forms of United States assistance.” The problem isn’t Trump. It isn’t the
United States. It’s that the Palestinian Authority is a terror group.
The Palestinian Authority, on whose
behalf Senator Feinstein is advocating, rejected the money that Dianne wants to
give the terror group, because it doesn’t want to face American terror victims
in court.
Rather than telling the truth about
that, Senator Feinstein and her five accomplices start out by lying about the
problem, and about what they want to accomplish, while assuming that the media
will never report the truth. They are almost certainly right about that. But
wrong about everything else.
The resolution, “Expressing the
sense of Congress regarding restoring United States bilateral assistance to the
West Bank and Gaza”, specifically demands $196 million for the Economic Support
Fund, $60 million for International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement; and
another million for anti-terrorism.
But the Palestinian Authority is a
terrorist coalition. Some of its components, such as the Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade, are even officially listed as terrorist groups by the United States.
Palestinian Authority “police” deserve the name the same way that ISIS cops
did. They’re armed members of a terrorist network with a history of
participating in terrorist attacks. This network was set up with United States
aid in the Clinton era. Senator Feinstein is vocally insisting that we continue
funding terrorists.
If Feinstein, Coons and Merkley were
really just concerned about humanitarian assistance, they would not have pushed
for funds for the armed components of a terrorist network. This is not about
“clean water”, it’s about dirty cash flowing to the enforcers for a terrorist
group while leaving their victims out in the cold.
The six senators want the PA’s thugs
to get paid, while their victims are left unable to sue them.
Feinstein is joined in this charade
by Senator Patrick Leahy, Senator Chris Coons, Senator Chris Van Hollen, and
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, and Senator Jeff Merkely.
Senator Van Hollen claims that he wants
to help “millions of children” with this resolution. “There are thousands of children and
families in the West Bank and Gaza who need the aid the United States has
historically provided," Cortez Masto appealed. Is it thousands or
millions? Since it’s not about the children, the fake numbers don’t actually
matter.
If the senators read their own
resolution, they would see that it frees terrorists from being sued for the
foreign aid they receive from American taxpayers by their American victims in
United States courts.
No wonder that Feinstein, Coons, Van
Hollen, Cortez Masto and Merkely keep talking about children. Caring about
children sounds a lot better than trying to help terrorists defraud terror
victims.
A number of the Dem senators invoke
Trump, attacking and blaming him, but as their own resolution concedes, it was
the Palestinian Authority that turned down ATCA aid. How is that Trump’s fault?
Why blame President Trump when your own terrorists would rather kill Jews than
take your money?
Senator Feinstein is broadcasting
support for her resolution from a variety of “humanitarian” groups. A number of
these groups, such as Churches for Middle East Peace, are involved in BDS and other
anti-Israel activities. Islamic Relief has been accused of supporting Hamas.
As has another NGO on the list.
Feinstein, Van Hollen, Merkley, Coons
and Cortez Masto are touting support for their “humanitarian” effort that
respects “Israeli security” from Islamic USA whose chair, Khaled Lamada, has allegedly praised
Hamas, and distributed conspiracy theories which claim that the
Jews are causing Egyptian Muslims to have sex, plan to invade the Nile Valley
and that the Egyptian president is a secret Jew.
Democrats are using support from BDS,
anti-Israel and anti-Semitic groups to back this resolution. And they are doing
so while lying and misleading about the resolution, its aims and its purpose.
Senator Feinstein and her allies
have failed to explain what ATCA is or what “legal liabilities” the Palestinian
Authority is attempting to evade. That’s because the plain truth is that the
six Senate Democrats are trying to defraud terror victims like Shmuel Waldman
under the guise of helping children. But the “children” they’re helping
are grown men who need our money for their guns.
Officially, the United States
doesn’t buy guns or bullets for the terrorist police forces. But money is
obviously fungible. The funds that the United States puts into terror groups
frees them to buy weapons.
It is ironic that Senator Dianne
Feinstein, who has been known for her militant opposition to Americans owning
firearms, and for holding firearms manufacturers liable for gun violence, wants
to force those same Americans to pay for guns for terrorists while exempting
those same terrorists from liability.
Palestinian “security officials”
don’t just carry pistols, but Kalashnikov rifles. Those aren’t the weapons of
law enforcement, but of a terrorist and guerrilla organization. They’re not
meant to police, but to war.
Senator Feinstein hates “assault
rifles” when Americans have them, not when Islamic terrorists do.
The resolution isn’t really about
humanitarian aid. It’s about allowing terrorists to get away with murder. It’s
about stealing money from their victims. And about weakening America’s
negotiating position with a terrorist group by exempting it from accountability
to the courts, to its victims and to our government.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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