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June 29, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/168821-are-taxpayers-funding-palestinians-dangerous-unilateralism

Are U.S. Taxpayers Funding Palestinians' Dangerous Unilateralism?

(The Hill) Jonathan Schanzer - In the coming weeks, "Palestinian delegations will make the rounds of nearly a dozen countries to try to drum up more support for their bid to have the United Nations recognize a Palestinian state," AP reports. Later this summer, Palestinian ambassadors will all fly to Madrid to discuss their European strategy. Here's a question for Congress: where is the travel money coming from? Diplomatic junkets don't grow on trees. The U.S. forks over an estimated $600 million to the Palestinians each year. It is reasonable to assume that Congress has been paying for the Palestinians' diplomatic end run around Washington. The writer is vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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