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Thread ID: 19992 | Posts: 9 | Started: 2005-09-04
2005-09-04 05:11 | User Profile
Report: Hurricane relief could trim U.S. pullout aid to Israel By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service, and Agencies
The scope of the disaster relief that the U.S. government is preparing for the areas struck by Hurricane Katrina is likely to reduce the amount of American aid to be transferred to Israel, Army Radio reported Sunday, citing unnamed White House officials.
The U.S. aid was due to offset the cost of implementing the disengagement plan.
After returning from his tour of the New Orleans region Friday, U.S. President George W. Bush immediately signed a $10.5 billion disaster aid package passed by Congress - an amount he repeatedly called "just the beginning" of federal expenditures for storm relief.
The high cost of rebuilding the storm-ravaged areas raise doubts as to the administration's willingness to fund the Israel Defense Forces' redeployment to areas outside of the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported.
The amount of U.S. aid to Israel in matters related to the disengagement plan will be discussed by Congress in the coming months, according to Army Radio.
Two Israelis reported missing An Israeli citizen who has been working as a truck driver in New Orleans has not been heard from since Hurricane Katrina struck last week, ravaging the city and rendering it unrecognizable. Another Israeli called his wife Friday after telling her he was headed toward Mississippi, but did not indicate his location. The Israeli Consulate in Houston is trying to locate both men.
Israel's Magen David Adom contacted the American Red Cross last week and offered to send medical teams to the stricken region, but as of publication no response had been received.
The Jewish community in the United States has responded to the hurricane with massive outpourings of support, coordinated through several major organizations and religious movements. Special efforts are also underway to locate and aid any Jewish hurricane refugees.
Both the number of people left in the city and the death toll remained unknown, because people are still showing up at evacuation sites and dead bodies were still being counted, according to Mike Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. However, estimates points to as many as 10,000 dead.
Bush said Saturday that an additional 7,200 federal troops would be sent to the disaster site to aid in relief efforts. The move comes amid angry complaints from local residents and officials that the federal government had bungled the relief effort and let people die in the streets for lack of food, water or medicine as the city was overtaken by looting, rape and arson. [url]http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/620503.html[/url]
2005-09-04 05:15 | User Profile
You mean the US government might actually spend less money on Israel in order to provide more aid to its own citizens?
Oy Vey! Call the AIPAC! Call Abe Foxman! It's anti-Semitism!
2005-09-04 05:24 | User Profile
Angler,
I'm really curious to see how this pans out. I suspect they'll find some way to slip the money to them in the future unless folks raise hell with Congress and say not just no, but, hell no.
2005-09-04 06:15 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Angler,
I'm really curious to see how this pans out. I suspect they'll find some way to slip the money to them in the future unless folks raise hell with Congress and say not just no, but, hell no.[/QUOTE]Actually, you're probably right -- there might be a delay in sending the money to Israel, but it will almost certainly be sent.
2005-09-04 08:20 | User Profile
On a separate front, American and Israeli officials have begun discussions of a post-Gaza aid package for Israel. The Israeli press has put the sum as high as $2.2 billion for development of new communities in the Galilee and the Negev desert.
Hoping to Buttress Sharon, U.S. Urges Allies' Restraint [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/politics/04mideast.html?ex=1126411200&en=080220234b0ef87f&ei=5070&emc=eta1[/url]
After Gulf War I, I witnessed Jimmy Trafficante and maybe one other congressman try to whittle down $10.5 billion the Israelies were trying to rip off from our country at the conclusion of that war. Even Bush One was against it. They extorted their money anyway, of course. In retaliation, and as an object lesson of their power to control events, AIPAC and the Jewish-controlled media jigged up a completely phoney campaign against Bush
One and he went from sky-high popularity as the victor in Gulf War I
to defeat at the hands of the corrupt scoundrel Bill Clinton. And they eventually found a way to stick Jimmy Trafficante in prison. They went out of their way to defeat Cynthia McKinney and Earl Hilliard, blacks who dared to criticize Israel and the Jews, down South. They have learned to manipulate the masses, and they have indelibly corrupted and usurped the old Republic.
Now we don't have the money to finance such stupidity anyway. The Chinese and the Japanese finance our debt and profligacy. When the time is right they might just pull the plug on this, and the dollar is going to be worth squat.
Secession is the only solution. Who needs an incompetent federal government whose main loyalties are to these world pariahs, anyway? If the Democrats were in, it would be no different.
So these are good days, where the corruption of this internal empire and the antagonism of its internal ethnic nations one against another may yet bring about its downfall. I'm with Walter. Let's hope it is as peaceful as the breakup of the Soviet Union.
2005-09-04 11:23 | User Profile
SG,
If it comes to Secession, then I hope all 50 states go with it. Leave the Feds Israel and D.C..
2005-09-04 12:55 | User Profile
[QUOTE]...Special efforts are also underway to locate and aid any Jewish hurricane refugees. ...[/QUOTE] I'd like to know what that entails.
2005-09-04 13:15 | User Profile
CW,
I see that one of the missing Israelis is a truck driver. It makes me wonder what he was sent to spy on?
2005-09-04 16:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]SG,
If it comes to Secession, then I hope all 50 states go with it. Leave the Feds Israel and D.C..[/QUOTE]
Sarge, With you there. I think Tom Chittum nailed the shape of things to come in Civil War Two. Any of y'all in the rest of the 50 are welcome to join us in the Great Northwest. SG