Thread: More bad news: U.S. aid eyed to cover cost of Gaza pullout

WTF? This country didn't build settlements there and yet we have to pay for this? This is just getting outrageous beyond belief. America is getting bent over again. It's bad enough we have to subsidize invaders who have no legal right to be in this country and now we have to subsidize the rest of the world and their problems too? How is Congress allowing Bush free reign to write whatever blank checks he wants? This is discipable.

http://washtimes.com/world/20050706-094912-2706r.htm

U.S. aid eyed to cover cost of Gaza pullout

By Amy Teibel
ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 7, 2005

JERUSALEM -- Israel will ask Washington for hundreds of millions of dollars to help foot the bill for next month's $2 billion evacuation of the Gaza Strip and four northern West Bank settlements, a senior Israeli official said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the government is considering declaring Gaza settlements off-limits to nonresidents to thwart an attempt by settlers to sabotage the evacuation by flooding the area with protesters, said an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al Awsat that he and Mr. Sharon might hold a summit before the pullout, set to begin in mid-August. They last met in June but failed to resolve several major issues.
On Tuesday, the main settlers group called on its followers to migrate en masse to the Gaza settlements on July 18. Sharon aide Raanan Gissin said the government is considering sealing the area before the march and that Mr. Sharon, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra will have final say.
Gaza was sealed briefly last week before the military stormed an abandoned hotel to remove 150 Jewish extremists barricaded inside. Most were from outside Gaza.
Israeli government officials will head to Washington next week to ask for money to relocate military bases and develop the Negev Desert in southern Israel, where most of the uprooted settlers are expected to move, said a senior Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the request has not been formally made.
The delegation will ask for "several hundreds of millions of dollars," the official said, refusing to be more specific.
With six weeks until the evacuation, Mr. Mofaz told lawmakers on Tuesday that Israel plans to send 45,000 soldiers and police to evacuate the 9,000 Gaza and West Bank settlers. The massive deployment reflects expectations of widespread resistance, some of it possibly violent.
Extremists have tried to disrupt life across the country by blocking highways and have threatened to step up the resistance as the evacuation date nears.
Mr. Sharon told lawmakers that he has instructed security forces "not to allow the blocking of roads, damage to communications' structures, scattering of nails [on the roads] and such things. The order is unequivocal -- life is not to be disrupted. We shall not allow it."
Mr. Sharon also said Israel warned the Palestinian Authority of a tough response if Palestinian militants fire on soldiers and settlers during the pullout.
"If there is fire during the evacuation, our response will be very harsh, possibly so harsh that it would destroy the whole process," he said.
Late Tuesday, Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef met Mr. Mofaz to discuss coordinating the withdrawal, but no agreements were announced.

I already emailed my Reps about this.

I doubt they will care tho, seems they all listen to foreigners than listen to us.

I'm so sick of being the open checkbook for everyone.

They should put that money back into S.S.

moose, We budget almost $300 Billion dollars to "give away" in foregin aid, diverting even 15% of this each year to Social Security should make it solvent for a long time to come. Heck its OUR money, why shouldn't it take care of US first!