Of course withholding this money would be disastrous and only result in a deterioration of the security situation. The PA would be unable to pay its security forces, public employees etc. and their already tenuous political situation visa vi the Palestinian citizens in the West Bank would be even more tenuous.

Lets be honest, the Palestinians will likely end up not going to the UN for this very reason- they are overly reliant on US $$$ and that is why they have been little more than US-Israeli puppets. There is a reason Washington likes Abbas-Fayyad- they don't rock the boat too much. Here we have a rare situation where the Palestinian leadership is actually doing something on it's own, without Washington and Israel's pre-approval and look at our reaction. The Obama admin. must understand that after the leak of the Palestine Papers (which the US media dutifully ignored) and the changes resulting from the Arab Spring, the PA can no longer be seen merely as a Palestinian rubber stamp on the ongoing entrenchment of the Occupation, particularly with respect to settlements.

If Saudi Arabia, the UAE etc. actually gave a damn about the Palestinians they would throw a lot of money to the PA to send a message to the United States- essentially, that they are tired of the US and the Quartet's useless pandering to Israel and that if they won't fund the PA, the Arab states will. But of course, they won't do that.

I'm wondering why Josh Rogin and his fellow State Dept. press colleagues never really challenge the State Dept. about this- given how much time and diplomatic effort Clinton & Co. have put into preventing a successful UN bid, you would think their claim that the Palestinians are unfairly engaging in "unilateral actions" would be questioned- Isn't ongoing settlement construction unilateral action on the part of Israel, given it essentially changes the facts on the ground and helps ensure there will never be a contiguous Palestinian state? There wasn't a peep from the press corp. about the Israeli announcement last week that they were breaking with past agreements with Obama, Bush, etc. and expropriating uncultivated Palestinian land:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-expropriates-palestinian-land-in-order-to-legalize-west-bank-settlement-1.372023

The way the State Dept. responds to Israeli actions vs. Palestinian actions is so hypocritical and yet the press rarely questions them on this.

And the State Dept. press seemed to accept the flimsy rationale that the anti-boycott law was an "internal matter" despite the fact that it basically is further proof that the two state solution is dead, because Israel killed it. Read here for more:

http://972mag.com/boycott-law-proves-israels-one-state-vision/

Also, the State Dept. ALWAYS speaks out on laws passed by other nations. Why should Israel be different?

because the US is once again showing its "impartiality". They are essentially forcing Paletinians to look elsewhere because the US is unable to reign in Israel's government. So Palestine looks to provide itself some measure of authenticity via the world stage, and the US moves very quickly to shut them down hard. That's not exactly helpful. If Palestine had a state, perhaps they would be less willing to attack Israel when having to deal with their own internal national problems and knowing that it would become a state vs. state war instead of some sort of formless intifada that's easily deniable by a stateless government.

The two state solution is dead. The U.S. government and Israel killed it a long time ago. People like Dennis Ross serve only to further entrench the Occupation while giving cover to the Israeli govt because so long as the public thinks there is a peace process they/we will accept the continued colonization of the occupied territories. If Obama had ever been serious about Mideast peace he wouldn't have brought Ross in.

The US would be shooting itself in the foot if it cut aid to Palestine. As others have mentioned, the same institutions that have helped create law and order would crumble. This would force the Palestinians to go to regimes not so friendly to US interests for money. Iran, China, Russia might step into replace US aid. The US's credibility is already in taters in the region so if the money is gone what leverage would the US have?

These so-called friends of Israel are the ones who are leading Israel to further isolation and its eventual destruction. Israel has the most to gain from a Palestinian state. If the two state solution is no longer viable, what's the alternative? Apartheid. Deportation just like Hitler tried to do to the Jews in Germany?

I never started out as an anti-Israel guy. However, the more I learn about the Middle East, the less sympathetic I am to Israel. In my opinion, Israel in the 60's and 70's was largely in the right. Only in the last 15 years has it grown ever less democratic, more irrationally aggressive, and more of a strategic liability to us. For example, all this "Jewish state" nonsense. A true democracy cannot have an official ethnic identity. Eventually it will have to make a choice of one over the other, and the other with grow to irrelevence. I hate the way it manipulates our national government in a way that no other nation approaches. Israel will go under rapid change sometime in the next few decades, either becoming a better democracy, being destroyed, or becoming a blatantly oppressive state. Positive change is still possible, as its not like Israel has gone full tilt rogue yet. Realistically, though, the most I think I can hope for is that there is no massive conventional war, no WMD's used, and when the stakes are right in our face and way too damn high to dick around with political games, we know how to untie ourselves from a sinking ship.

and use the money to help create dozens of jobs for Americans.

It is a shameful and sad that the United States will not be supporting the Palestinian application for UN membership.

Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity even if implemented by a people who have suffered the same fate in the past. Foreign policy should not be based on guilt feelings that are over 50 years old. It is our duty as world citizens to oppose injustice no matter by whom it is caused.

Does this surprise anyone?

If the Germans had succeeded in their "Lebensraum" policy in Eastern Europe I suspect that most of the original inhabitants and their descendants would not have accepted it.

We Americans speak of freedoms, tolerance, and diversity, yet our government makes the Zionist occupation possible against our will, with our tax money, and making us accomplices in constant murders that the Zionist regime is committing including murders of our own American citizens (search on youtube for “Rachel Corrie” video of Zionist bulldozer crushing her to death). I am ashamed as an American that our politicians are controlled by the Zionist regime to such a terrifying extent. Tens of senators, state representatives, and ambassadors to foreign countries are Jewish. While I recognize that many are honest and against the Zionist regime, I am concerned about the fair representation of our will at the highest levels of our government. Just look on Wikipedia for “List of Jewish American politicians,” and visit prince.org/msg/105/271100 to discover that all five Federal Reserve chairmen/chairwomen are Jewish, and almost all (9 out of 12) regional Fed chairmen/chairwomen are also Jewish. I never like to generalize, but Jews comprise only 2% of our population and they have so much power in the government and almost absolute power over our money supply and economic polices. I am just not comfortable that all Americans are being represented properly especially not on the Palestine occupation issue that I know most people do not support judging by the comments against the Zionist regime I hear everywhere.
Urge your state representatives and senators to immediately stop any remaining support for the Zionist regime. Much of the support already stopped because of the increasing pressure on this issue, but we Americans need to completely distance ourselves from this oppressive regime and stop being accomplices in its murders! The world is also reacting. Who would want to be remembered in history as an accomplice to ruthless occupation? Many countries, companies, and countless moral individuals have already successfully implemented no relations with the Zionist government and others are implementing the same policy as we speak. Not travel there, not buy anything from it, not trade with it, not communicate with it, etc. Also do the same with any country that supports it because the Zionist government only survives because of its external supporters

Imagine in the current time if France would want to create its own state in Michigan and separate it from the U.S. French are a minority in Michigan so democratic vote on the separation would not work because they would be outvoted by the rest of the Americans living in Michigan. So imagine if they had a historic opportunity when the U.S. is at its weakest and militarily occupy a part of Michigan and impose a regime where only French can vote and all the others who lived there cannot. Furthermore, the occupiers rename the occupied part of Michigan as the “French State” where not only that Americans are not welcome, but they are systematically expelled over time creating huge refugee camps in nearby states of Indiana and Ohio. Imagine then that at that point in history the artificial organization called the United Nations is full of French supporters and somehow that makes the occupation “legal” and Americans who fight for their homes in the occupied part of Michigan are labeled as terrorists. The occupation is a part of a careful log-term plan (i.e. Zionism) of acquiring land by French, so literally days after the occupation is implemented (what a coordinated plan!) the occupiers import millions of other French from all over the world to increase their population in Michigan from around 100,000 to over 5 Million in a short period. Then Americans resist and fight to regain the occupied part of Michigan, but Russia steps in, sends weapons, cash, and everything else the occupiers need to sustain the occupation.

What do you think all of us Americans would feel? We would hate French first, and then all of their supporters (Russia in this analogy) that make the occupation of our land possible. Still questioning yourself why people in the Middle East and other parts of the world do not like us? Because Zionist controlled our government, not the people, supported the very exact scenario as described above against our will and with our tax money making us accomplices in this unspeakable crime. The scenario that would outrage all of us Americans and make us fight against it if it happened in Michigan or anywhere else in the U.S.

This comment is not intended to make derogatory remarks about France and Russia. It is merely used as an example of how Americans would be outraged and fight back in the same situation as the forced establishment of the Zionist regime and its occupation of Palestine.
Urge your state representatives and senators to immediately stop any remaining support for the Zionist regime. Much of the support already stopped because of the increasing pressure on this issue, but we Americans need to completely distance ourselves from this oppressive regime and start actively opposing it.

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Who Controls the U.S. Federal Reserve System (Fed)?

The Fed is divided into two parts: the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, located in Washington DC, and the Federal Reserve District Banks, located throughout the United States. If you examine the official website of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, you will see that there are five members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. You will also see that all five of the board members are Jewish. This is a numerical representation of 100%. Why is this important? It’s important because Jews only constitute about 2% of the United States population. So the odds that all five members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors would be Jewish are infinitesimally small. Here are the five members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors:

Benjamin S. Bernanke - Jewish
Donald L. Kohn - Jewish
Kevin M. Warsh - Jewish
Randall S. Kroszner - Jewish
Frederic S. Mishkin - Jewish

Now, if you examine the presidents of the twelve Federal Reserve District Banks, you will discover a similar pattern of Jewish over-representation. Here is the section of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors’ website that lists the twelve Federal Reserve District Banks and their respective presidents:

FRB of Boston: Eric S. Rosengren - Jewish
FRB of New York: Timothy F. Geithner - Jewish
FRB of Philadelphia: Charles I. Plosser - Jewish
FRB of Richmond: Jeffrey M. Lacker - Jewish
FRB of St. Louis: James B. Bullard - Jewish
FRB of Minneapolis: Gary H. Stern - Jewish
FRB of Kansas City: Thomas M. Hoenig - Jewish
FRB of Dallas: Richard W. Fisher - Jewish
FRB of San Francisco: Janet L. Yellen - Jewish
FRB of Cleveland: Sandra Pianalto - gentile
FRB of Atlanta: Dennis P. Lockhart - gentile
FRB of Chicago: Charles L. Evans - gentile

This extreme numerical over-representation of Jews among the members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Reserve District Bank presidents cannot be explained away as a coincidence or as the result of mere random chance. You must ask yourself how such an incredibly small and extremely unrepresentative minority religious group that only represents about 2% of the American population could so completely dominate the highest levels of the United States Fed?

A new program implemented on May 20th by the Palestinian Authority will precipitate cash payments and salaries to be made to Arab terrorists who are languishing in Israeli prisons. With the United States having provided more than $225 Million in foreign aid last year alone which is placed into the General Fund of the Palestinian government, the US government will have helped pay for terrorism in the Middle East region. A law published in the official Palestinian Authority Registry last month grants all Palestinians and Israeli Arabs imprisoned in Israel for terror crimes a monthly salary from the PA. The Arabic word the PA uses for this payment is "ratib," meaning "salary." The PA has reported that the US, the EU, France, Britain, Ireland, jenna jameson
, Norway, Japan, India and the World Bank have all given money to the PA for its general budget in 2010-2011. Such direct funding could be part of the "available sources" for terrorist salaries, or could free money elsewhere in the PA budget that could be used for these salaries. Unfortunately, this is not the only occurance of US foreign aid going directly, or circuitously to known terror organizations. Last week, President Obama initiated a plan to provide $3 Billion in cash and debt forgiveness to the Egyptian government, which in all likelihood will be controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood after the October elections. The United States through Nato has also been providing finance and support to Al Queda through their inflitration of the rebels in Libya. Since 2001, America has spent trillions of dollars fighting a war on terror, and giving up numerous liberties through programs created by Homeland Security and the Patriot Act. To now have the revelation that the government is playing both sides of the conflict, supporting those for and against terrorist activities, is a very disconcerting scenario for many Americans to comprehend. With the Palestinian Authorities new law and program to pay terrorists jailed in Isreali facilities using funds provided by the US under the guise of foreign aid, and the recent call by President Obama to stand more for the Palestinians over our Israeli allies on the desired peace process, Americans need to take a very close look at what is truly behind the war on terror 10 years after 9/11, and try to discover the true purposes behind our ongoing use of money, men, and strategic plan to fight it.