Thread: Obama Quietly Sent $220 Million to Palestinians in Final Hours of Presidency

Obama Quietly Sent $220 Million to Palestinians in Final Hours of Presidency

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January 24, 2017

Just hours before leaving office Friday, former President Barack Obama quietly sent $220 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.

Former State Department spokeswoman for the Obama Administration Marie Harf, also a Fox News contributor, joined Bill Hemmer on "America's Newsroom" Tuesday to discuss this move.

"This is actually money that the Israelis have traditionally supported us giving to the Palestinians because it goes toward things like security reform and making sure the Palestinian Authority doesn't collapse, and that's actually in Israel's security interest," Harf said.

The money given to the Palestinians coincides with the $3.8 billion-a-year memorandum signed between the U.S. and Israel in September, guaranteeing a set level of funding for the Israelis over the next 10 years.

"We felt that was very important to sign under the Obama Administration to make sure the Israelis knew they were going to keep getting support from us," Harf said.
Harf said she does not think President Donald Trump will reverse this $221 million in funding.

"If we don't help the Palestinian Authority maintain stability, that's actually really bad for Israel's security," she said.
Watch the clip for the interview above, and share your thoughts in the comments section.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/2...on-final-hours

I read an article on FB that Trump put a FREEZE on this money pending investigation.

Trump’s State Department to Police Obama’s $221 Million Transfer to Palestinians

January 25, 2017 , 8:30 am



Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-Texas), who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, is very upset with President Barack Obama’s last-Friday-in-office decision to send the Palestinian Authority $221 million, a payment on which Granger had placed a hold because the PA had broken its commitment to the US and sought membership in international organizations, according to an early Wednesday PA report.

Those Congressional holds are not legally binding, but they are part of the ongoing business between the Administration and the branch of the legislator which holds the purse strings. Like disgruntled office workers on their last day at work, Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry broke that trust because they no longer had any business with this body.

Now President Trump’s State Department says it plans to review the rule-breaking decision to send $221 million to a Palestinian Authority that also breaks the rules, AP reports. On Tuesday, the department said it would make adjustments to in this unruly payment, to make sure it complies with its new priorities.

Dr. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told Business Insider that “Congress had been looking at various behaviors from Palestine — unilateral attempts at statehood, corruption, incitement of violence, and paying salaries to people in jail for terrorism — and that’s why the hold has been there.”

An earlier AP story reported that the Obama administration had been pressing Congress to release the money for a while, saying it was needed for humanitarian aid, political and security reforms, and “rule of law.”

Granger said in a statement Tuesday: “I worked to make sure that no American taxpayer dollars would fund the Palestinian Authority unless very strict conditions were met. While none of these funds will go to the Palestinian Authority because of those conditions, they will go to programs in the Palestinian territories that were still under review by Congress. The Obama Administration’s decision to release these funds was inappropriate.”



www.breakingisraelnews.com/82595/trumps-state-department-to-police-obamas-221-million-transfer-to-palestinians/#tuvr5tI4RHxALYfD.99

In final hours in office, Obama sent $221,000,000 to the “Palestinians”

January 23, 2017 4:56 pm

Making sure, in one of his last acts, to finance calls for the destruction of Israel, as well as for genocide and murder of Israelis.



“US sent $221 million to Palestinians in Obama’s last hours,” by Matthew Lee and Richard Lardner, Associated Press, January 23, 2017:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.

A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning. The official said former Secretary of State John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time Thursday. The aides said written notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office.

In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama administration also told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for U.N. organizations, the congressional aides said. The aides and the State Department official weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity….

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/i...e-palestinians

There is no better person to track our money than Donald J Trump. There will be no hint or sign of financial corruption abusing taxpayer money that Donald Trump won't hunt down to the ends of the Earth.

You got that right Judy he will find out how this happened and it will not happen again, we are going to stop supporting other countries and rebuild our own country.