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2021-09-24 Home Front: Politix
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Top Republican releases remaining Palestinian aid he held up for month
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[IsraelTimes] Senator Jim Risch approves payment of last $20 million of $75 million package pledged by Biden, but insists it be reprogrammed for food aid, not funneled to terrorists
A top Senate Republican agreed Wednesday to release the remainder of humanitarian funds that he had been holding up since the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
 ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us...
allocated them to the Paleostinians last spring, his office told The Times of Israel on Wednesday night.
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A spokesperson for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch said that the senator had agreed to release $20 million in aid he had been holding, "as long as it is reprogrammed to be used for food aid, and will not be in the hands of terrorists."
Risch initially held up all $75 million in humanitarian assistance that the Biden administration earmarked for the Paleostinians last March. In the months that followed, he released roughly $55 million of that aid in two separate approvals.
The ranking Republican member has repeatedly expressed his apprehension over the aid, warning that it could be funneled into use for non-humanitarian causes. The Biden administration has insisted that the funds are strenuously vetted and are only allowed to reach approved humanitarian groups and NGOS, and not the Paleostinian Authority, given the PA’s ongoing welfare policy, which includes regular payments to security prisoners who carried out attacks against Israelis.
The first $25 million released by Risch in the late spring went to the Paleostinian hospital network, community engagement programs and other humanitarian assistance. The next $30 million released in the summer was earmarked for water supply and sanitation in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
. Most of the final $20 million released by Risch on Wednesday had been slated to go toward infrastructure projects for the Paleostinians, but had been reprogrammed as food aid, following the Republican’s concerns that the funding would’ve been misused, a Congressional aide told The Times of Israel.
Had the aid not been spent by the end of September, it would have expired. In total, the Biden administration has allocated roughly $400 million in humanitarian assistance for the Paleostinians through various programs after funding was all but eliminated by the Trump administration as Ramallah refused to cooperate with its peace efforts, viewed by the PA and much of the international community as biased in favor of Israel.
Democrats had been pressuring Risch for months to release the aid. Rep. Jamie Raskin spearheaded a letter to Risch in June asking him to stop blocking the assistance, citing a "desperate" need in the wake of the Gaza war a month earlier.
"We write with a great sense of urgency to respectfully request that you release your hold on tens of millions of dollars in appropriated humanitarian aid that is so desperately needed to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of civilians suffering in Gaza and the West Bank in the wake of the horrific violence that took place in the last several weeks," the letter signed by 145 House Democrats read.
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