US Congress frees $40 million for Palestinians

“When you help Hezbollah build homes, you’re helping them build bombs,” 

$15,000,000,000,000+ in debt, Congress is incapable of protecting Americans and  producing a budget, and our failed “leaders” are still selling your future to those who celebrated the deaths of Americans on 9/11 and elected terrorist Hamas into office, via US Congress frees $40 million for Palestinians – Yahoo! News.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers have freed up a little more than 20 percent of $187 million in U.S. assistance to the Palestiniansthat had been frozen over the Palestinian bid for U.N. membership.

Members of Congress have made available $40 million in economic and humanitarian funding for the Palestinians, the State Department said Wednesday. The money is administered by theU.S. Agency for International Development and "has been vital to establishing and strengthening the foundations necessary for a future Palestinian state," the department said.

The Obama administration had been urging lawmakers, withIsrael's backing, to release the money as it contributes to Palestinian stability and Israeli security. "It is in the interest of the Palestinians, Israel and the United States, to ensure these efforts continue," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. "They help to build a more democratic, stable, and secure region."

The administration is pressing Congress to release the remaining $147 million that comes from the last budget cycle in which aid to the Palestinians was to total $545.7 million. New funding for the Palestinians will be subject to additional scrutiny and can be blocked if they win full admission to the United Nations before a peace deal with Israel is agreed.

The administration has asked Congress for $513.4 million in aid for the Palestinians in fiscal year 2012

Obama-appointed “judge” Elana Kagan has stated that such support is illegal:

U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan urged the court to uphold the broad sweep of the terrorism law and to permit prosecutions of anyone who gives any support to a terrorist group. She discounted the “supposed First Amendment claims” raised by human-rights advocates. “When you help Hezbollah build homes, you’re helping them build bombs,” she said. 

Justice Antonin Scalia agreed with Kagan and said he saw no constitutional problems with the antiterrorism law. “If you provide any aid” to them, it “furthers their terrorist activity,” he said.

Like insider trading, it seems Congress is above their own laws.source: