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Source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-biden-wrong-send-money-gaza-206999
Why the U.S. Is Wrong to Send Money to Gaza
(American Enterprise Institute) Danielle Pletka - Visiting Israel in a show of solidarity, U.S. President Joe Biden also announced "$100 million of new U.S. funding for humanitarian assistance in both Gaza and the West Bank." Let's get this straight: Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) destroy Gaza and the U.S. taxpayer fixes it up? No doubt there are urgent humanitarian needs among the Palestinians. In addition to the rank thievery and mismanagement of the last decade and a half under both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank that has devastated the Palestinian economy, both Hamas and PIJ have done immense damage with rocket fire that has missed its intended targets in Israel and hit its subjects in Gaza. Now is the time for the Palestinians' most loyal supporters to ante up for their friends, and for Hamas' underwriters to pay for the damage their proxies are inflicting. The writer is a senior fellow at AEI.