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Does the U.S. Owe Money to the Palestinians?

(Gatestone Institute) Bassam Tawil - For the past 9 months, Palestinian leaders have been waging a massive campaign of incitement and abuse against the Trump administration. Now the U.S. has decided to cut $200 million in American financial aid to the Palestinians. The PA and its leaders were the ones who initiated the crisis with the U.S., choosing to take their protest over Trump's announcement on Jerusalem to an extreme by boycotting the U.S. and waging a smear campaign against Trump and his "Jewish advisors and envoys." The Palestinians are basically telling the Americans: We have the right to condemn you every day, to burn your flags and photos of your president, to incite against you, to launch weekly protests against you, to accuse you of being under the "influence of the Jewish and Zionist lobby" and, at the same time, we have the right to continue receiving U.S. taxpayer money. The Palestinians, of course, are entitled to voice their anger at the U.S. However, if they are so fed up with the U.S., why are they demanding that the Americans continue to supply them with hundreds of millions of dollars each year? The Palestinian position is that the U.S. and the rest of the international community owe the Palestinians money for supporting Israel's existence. Common sense would have it that the U.S. has a right to demand something from any party it helps to support - including the Palestinians. But in the Palestinians' view, billions of dollars are owed to them as some sort of divine right.
2018-08-31 00:00:00
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