Rice Rules!
Continuing on
this earlier post about "Palestinian" money worries, it seems that they just got a bit more intense.
From
Bloomberg:
Rice Says U.S. Won't Aid Hamas-Led Palestinian Government
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. won't financially support a Hamas-led Palestinian government and will ask other nations to cut off aid as well.
"The United States is not prepared to fund an organization that advocates the destruction of Israel, that advocates violence," Rice said en route to London, where tomorrow she will review the Palestinian elections with representatives of the United Nations, the European Union and Russia. The group, known as the Quartet, has been working on peace negotiations.
The U.S. is trying to build a consensus within the Quartet and among other nations for withholding aid as a way to isolate the incoming government until Hamas renounces its call for Israel's destruction. Hamas, which the U.S. and EU regard as a terrorist organization, trounced the ruling Fatah party in the Palestinian parliamentary elections on Jan. 25.
You are about $368,000,000 short?
How about the tried and true liberal technique -- hold a bake sale.
Posted by DaveH at January 29, 2006 9:30 PM