Can't we all just get along?

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.

I don't get why anyone thinks we need to spend American money on those folks. They've been the useful tools of various moneyed interests in the Middle East for about six decades. If they need aid, there are wealthy Arabs all over the middle east to whom 200 million is chump change, and they don't like the Israelis any more than the Palestinian groups do.

For that matter, why are we still bribing the Israelis and Egyptians each year not to have war with each other?

Stop paying that extortion money, now. (That's about 3 billion to Israel and 2-3 for Egypt, and goes back a piece agreement from the 70's. That's enough time for both of those countries to grow up.

Yeah. Other arabs not helping Palestinians is not a new thing though. After all, every arab nation refused to take the Palestinians in, years ago. I don't really blame them, but then again Jordanians and Palestinians are the same people, so hmm...

As far as spending money in the middle east, I agree. We need to stop giving everyone money. Just keep in mind that Israel is the only country in the middle east that does not want to kill us. Well, for about 45 years that is. I think you know what I mean by that. However, even that can't be compared to today's situation with the muslim countries and the west.