ZOA Appalled: Covid Relief Bill’s Fungible $250 Million for Palestinians May Benefit Terrorism, Anti-Israel Propaganda and Anti-Israel NGO’s

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement:

The long-awaited, massive $900 billion coronavirus relief bill, passed last night without giving Congress time to read all the provisions snuck into the bill’s thousands of pages, contained a dangerous, poison provision:  Namely, $250 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars will be diverted from much-needed COVID relief to establish a so-called “People-to-People Partnership for Peace Fund” for Palestinian Arab investments and supposed peace programs.  Rather than peace, this so-called “Peace Fund” is far more likely to abet anti-Jewish terror attacks, boycotts and propaganda.

Because money is fungible, the new so-called “Peace Fund” will save the Palestinian Authority (PA) from having to spend money on projects for its people.  The savings to the PA will enable, and in effect, help finance the PA’s heinous, continuing, hundreds of millions of dollars of annual “pay-to-slay” payments to Arab terrorists to murder Jews.

The “Peace Fund” will thus circumvent the Taylor Force Act, which was designed to reduce the funding that enables the PA to continue paying rewards to Arab terrorists to murder Jews and Americans.

ZOA has been battling to block projected-president-elect Biden’s plans to find a way to resume funding the PA.   ZOA’s YouTube video, “Stuart Force, Taylor Force’s Father, Speaks Out, features the father of murdered American student Taylor Force, whose killers continue receive PA “pay to slay” payments.

It is appalling that even before Biden takes office, Congress, led by resigning Democratic Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (for whom the “Peace Fund” provision is named and who for years proclaimed that no US funds should be given to Palestinians until they fulfill obligations under the Oslo Accords, which they never have) has passed a bill that found a way to indirectly but effectively assist the PA.

Another extremely worrisome aspect of the bill is that part of the “Peace Fund” is slated to finance supposed peace dialogue projects, that are useless at best, and are usually forums for promoting anti-Israel propaganda.   Much of this funding seems likely to end up in the pockets of leftwing, highly-biased-against-Israel NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in the misnamed ALLMEP (“Alliance for Middle East Peace”) network. ALLMEP led the lobbying in Congress for the “Peace Fund.”

ALLMEP’s politics and network is nothing like its “peace” name.  ALLMEP Regional Director Huda Abu Arqoub claimed that Hamas is “not a terrorist organization” and accused Israel of attacking Islam. At the 2014 radical J Street conference (minute 53), Abu Arqoub promoted boycotts “against any type of Israeli products.”  At the 2015 J Street Conference (minute 34), Abu Arqoub claimed that “the occupation” (her term for Israel) causes Palestinians Arabs to be in prison (rather than the fact that the prisoners murdered innocent Israelis); stated that the “Palestinian Gandhi” is in Israeli prison; and hoped for releasing Marwan Barghouti (who was convicted for murdering 5 Israelis) from prison to unite and lead the Palestinians (minute 39).  She also spoke of removing the PA, and establishing a Hamas Islamic Palestinian state (minute 37).

A few of the many ALLMEP network NGOs which are likely to receive the U.S. taxpayer “Peace Fund” dollars for their anti-Israel “peace” programs include:

• Combatants for Peace – which claims to allow both side’s “narratives” but in reality blames “the occupation” (their term for Israel); organizes “theater of the oppressed” performances and “Nakba Day” ceremonies condemning Israel; promoted anti-Israel sanctions; and demonstrates against Israel; etc.

• Holy Land Trust – which falsely accuses Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” against the people of Gaza; “conducts highly politicized tours of Israel and the West Bank promoting the Palestinian narrative”; and runs summer programs in which participants meet with some of the worst anti-Israel NGOs.

• Parents Circle Families Forum (PCFF) – which presents programs that immorally equate Jewish terror victims to Arab terrorists; and blames Israel for the conflict.  The programs even sent relatives of Arab terrorists to speak at Israeli schools, to legitimize terror, until the Israeli Ministry of Education finally stopped the program.  A film paid for by USAID promotes the notion that the “Israeli narrative” is the source of the problem and must be changed.

• OneVoice International – which under the guise of building consensus for peace, used U.S. funding to try to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu; fights against “setter expansion” (Jewish homes in historic Jewish land); launched “The Land is Ours” campaign “to encourage young Palestinians to participate in non-violent resistance to end the occupation, realize the two-state solution, and establish an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital” (a “solution” that would be an existential threat for Israel); and more.

Congress needs to eliminate this misnamed “Peace Fund” at the earliest opportunity.  The $250 million should be re-allocated to where it will do real good and where it was supposed to be spent – namely, to assist Americans who are suffering from the COVID pandemic.

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  1. These newfound isolationists on the radio and tv attack establishment republicans for having supported the war on Iraq. Yet they not only supported that war, they pushed for it. They were all about military adventures under W and in fact criticized his father for not going further and taking out sadam. Suddenly they became anti-war when they saw where the political winds were shifting in the conservative movement and they didn’t want to lose their audiences. They think people have forgotten where they used to stand. I hope Trump runs again or manages to pull this election out, but I’m afraid the post-Trump populist/nationalist movement will be anti-Israel. Populism and isolationism is where the American conservative movement stands now, and populism and isolationism tend to be inherently anti-Semitic. Trump is an exception. When push comes to shove, we as a people always end up alone.

  2. There are plenty of Jew-haters on the right and they are increasingly coming out of the closet. Like the fake outrage about the stimulus bill by many talk radio hosts who previously pretended to be pro-Israel. They certainly must know that “aid” to Israel is part of the military budget and is spent to buy American made military equipment, but apparently they would rather incite anger instead of making rational arguments about what’s wrong with the China virus bill. And now apparently if you support Israel, you’re part of the DC establishment globalists who don’t put Americans first, according to bitch michelle malkin. Israel, unlike other “allies” is pro-American and fights their own military battles. And also its under unique threats of annihilation.https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnsnews.com%2Fcommentary%2Fmichelle-malkin%2Fabominable-america-last-porkulus%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3UrzdVAmxsC9dhzWARineOfR0WYvm3pLc8M5v1apD5-NACINxc6DJpVx0&h=AT02O3CgF9rDdt5XdeldRMxnKcGD9x4SNzKFh6yboJJYGZGHi7qmTSTGdJpg80xyAQx_eJn1oiiaPF1GmOCF5rj11AM4ae1q2DQQDcVcivVi0H0brZntajOVDlypD_Akmw&__tn__=R%5D-R&c%5B0%5D=AT191rQ9HUZQFE9tyM73g4kkhQaE6_aaKHS-Dx9dYZSrl1eDDgfnNyGu0Z1Unu89USQMQ9eW8zNEBuUA64Bbhw46oW5JNt_0X0Z4LMwl_ymxe7IL8fc-sAMj7gu43OX8vhkSpkXMWI2eJ53rxXJ0UHCrLu0

  3. Watch Presidennt Trump’s speech on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYC7ikFIuY) detailing what a swindling boondoggle the so-called Covid relief bill is. Tens of millions of dollars for Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Vietnam (which not so long ago defeated us in a war), Burma, Egypt, etc. as part of a supposed COVID relief bill-not a foreign aid bill! A huge appropriation for the Kennedy Center for the Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, etc. which are closed because of COVID! A huge amount to enable the FBI to build a new headquarters! Money to subsidize fish farms, poultry farms, counts of endangered fish species, etc., all having nothing to do with COVID relief. And as Trump points out, only $600 each for poor Americans. Little or no money for restaurants that have been forced to close because of COVID. Infamous!!

    Trump is threatening to veto it. Unfortunately, he rarely acts on his threats.

    He ought to veto the entire multi-trillion dollar spending bill. Filled with pork for the rich and little or nothing for all the Americans who have been forced into bankrupcy and are likely tolose their homes and need to eat from charity food banks by the COVID hoax.

    Close down the entire deep state for at least a few weeks.

  4. This isn’t even the worst of it! This bill is filled with aid to corrupt and hostile foreign regimes. Giving money to corrupt dictators, supposedly to enable them to promote ethnic tolerance, gender equality, and anti-crruption campaigns. Ugh! Look at this article by a gold and silver trader, of all people, which I have accessed via ZeroHedge.

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    Since the beginning of March, the US federal government has spent more than $5 trillion battling the Coronavirus and the effects of COVID-19. And governments around the world, from Europe to China, have spent trillions more.

    And that amount doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the long-term economic toll, including then incalculable cost of shutting down the economy.

    Government-imposed lockdowns have wiped out trillions of dollars, pushing businesses to failure and costing millions of jobs.

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    And this economic toll also affects tax revenue; with the economy notably weaker, government tax revenue is almost nonexistent this year. So they’re spending record sums of money while generating minimal revenue.

    Unsurprisingly, debt levels have spiraled out of control.

    We’re supposed to cancel everything, avoid friends and family, pepper spray anyone who isn’t wearing a mask, and cower in fear in our homes… all because of a virus that, by one recent estimate in the European Journal of Epidemiology, has a survival rate of 99.9%.

    But even still, they’re back at it. More lock downs, more endless spending, more debt.

    The United States Congress just passed yet another ‘Covid relief’ bill. Technically it includes general spending provisions for Fiscal Year 2021 (to avoid yet another government shut down).

    But the biggest chunk of it is COVID relief, which comprises nearly $1 trillion of the spending. The total bill is more than FIVE THOUSAND PAGES, and it embodies the old political phrase, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

    If the purpose of the bill really is to provide relief to Americans, then the bill should (in theory) be a few paragraphs at most.

    But this bill is literally 5,593 pages… and contains some of the most absurd provisions imaginable.

    For starters, Americans will receive $600 in ‘relief’.

    So, you’re not allowed to operate your business and earn a living for yourself. And in exchange, the government will will send you enough money to buy some new clothes so you can stay warm while you stand in line at the soup kitchen.

    But that doesn’t even begin to showcase the utter waste in this bill:

    Page 1,461 of the bill, for example, authorizes nearly $135 million for BURMA (aka Myanmar) “to promote ethnic and religious tolerance . . . in Kachin, Karen, Rakhine, and Shan states”.

    What bureaucrat could possibly come up with something so absurd? You get $600. But a bunch of corrupt generals in Burma get to rake in US taxpayer funds under the guise of ethnic and religious tolerance… but ONLY in FOUR out of Burma’s 14 states.

    (Tough luck if you’re a Burmese warlord living in the state of Bago or Yangon… because obviously it would be ridiculous to give those states any money.)

    Another $45 million of taxpayer money (page 1,491) will be awarded to key government officials in Central America– places like El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala– in order to “combat corruption”.

    You can’t make this stuff up– they are giving money to corrupt politicians to fund anti-corruption programs. It’s genius!

    Another $10 million of taxpayer money (page 1,486) will be given to the government of Pakistan SPECIFICALLY for gender studies programs.

    They’re giving boatloads of money to plenty of foreign countries, including Ukraine ($453 million), Sudan ($700 million), the Republic of Georgia ($132 million), Bangladesh ($198 million), Vietnam ($170 million), and several others.

    Then there’s the small matter of $33 million for “democracy programs” in Venezuela. I’m sure Nicholas Maduro will use those funds well.

    (The real irony is that, while allocated $33 million for Venezuela on page 1498, page 1347 of the bill expressly prohibits any funding for Venezuela. Unbelievable.)

    Perhaps most noteworthy is that Members of Congress didn’t receive the final bill yesterday until roughly two hours before the scheduled vote.

    Now, Anne Jones, the six-time World Speed Reading Competition champion is able to read an average of 4,200 words per minute with 67% comprehension.

    So it would take her more than nine hours to read this bill in its entirety, and she’d still lose about a third of it.

    There’s no way anyone in Congress was able to read this bill, or even thumb through enough of it to understand the big picture. And yet they still voted in favor of it, costing taxpayers another trillion dollars.

    And that led a very angry Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to take to Twitter and lament,

    “This is why Congress needs time to actually read this package before voting on it. Members of Congress have not read this bill. It’s over 5000 pages, arrived at 2pm today, and we are told to expect a vote on it in 2 hours. This isn’t governance. It’s hostage-taking.”

    For once I actually agree with AOC. This is an absurd process that exemplifies everything wrong with government: it’s wasteful, ignorant, out of touch, oblivious, embarrassing, shameful, and corrupt.

    As an aside, Joe Biden praised the process by which the bill was passed, saying “I applaud the bipartisan Congressional economic relief package” and called it “a model for the challenging work ahead.”

    Something tells me he didn’t read the bill either.

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    Trump has an absolute duty to veto the whole thing and shut down the whole deep state, at least for a few weeks.