re: #33 marjoriemoon

We shouldn’t be giving aid to Hamas. It’s insane. We don’t give to Cuba’s people or Iran’s people. What the hell?

What do you think, they’re going to give this money to them to build schools and homes and those things were really get built? Or if they get built, they’ll be used for schools and homes?

Horrible, horrible, when our own people are still suffering.

Recent administrations have tried to funnel the aid away from Hamas, we don’t just write a check. I’m not saying they don’t hijack food aid for example and sell it, it could be a problem.

They also play politics with aid, support Hamas, or get nothing:

“People who are not in with Hamas don’t see any of the relief goods or the gifts of money,” Khadar says. On the sand dune where his house once perched, there is now an emergency shelter. The shelter is made of concrete blocks that Khadar dug from the rubble, and the roof is the canvas of a tent that provided the family with shelter for the first summer after the war. “Hamas supporters get prefabricated housing, furnishings and paid work. We get nothing,” Khadar complains.

Hamas Members Take and Distribute ‘at Their Own Discretion’

The reason his family receives nothing: Like many of his neighbors, Khadar is a die-hard supporter of the Fatah party, the sworn political enemy of the more radical Islamists in Hamas.