Cutting All Humanitarian Aid to Palestine

March/April 2019 Postcard

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DEAR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:

You have decided to cut all humanitarian aid to Palestine, a move that will make ordinary Palestinians suffer for no discernible reason. What does this move accomplish? Nothing, except for imposing unnecessary suffering.

Cutting humanitarian aid will not make a peace deal suddenly materialize. It will not make Hamas give into Israeli demands, or the Palestinian Authority suddenly accept any peace deal placed in front of it. What will bring peace is bold leadership that challenges both sides to compromise. Giving one side (Israel) more money and moral support and the other side (Palestinians) no money and less support only deepens the gulf between the two, further delegitimizes the U.S. as an honest peace broker and stalls the road to peace. We have made peace more elusive and left millions vulnerable. It’s time to reverse this cruel and indefensible strategy. Restore humanitarian aid to Palestine.

DEAR SENATOR:

President Trump has decided to cut all humanitarian aid to Palestine, a move that will make ordinary Palestinians suffer for no discernible reason. What does this move accomplish? Nothing, except for imposing unnecessary suffering.
Cutting humanitarian aid will not make a peace deal suddenly materialize. It will not make Hamas give into Israeli demands, or the Palestinian Authority suddenly accept any peace deal placed in front of it. What will bring peace is bold leadership that challenges both sides to compromise. Giving one side (Israel) more money and moral support and the other side (Palestinians) no money and less support only deepens the gulf between the two, further delegitimizes the U.S. as an honest peace broker and stalls the road to peace. We have made peace more elusive and left millions vulnerable. It’s time to reverse this cruel and indefensible strategy. Restore humanitarian aid to Palestine.

DEAR REPRESENTATIVE:

President Trump has decided to cut all humanitarian aid to Palestine, a move that will make ordinary Palestinians suffer for no discernible reason. What does this move accomplish? Nothing, except for imposing unnecessary suffering.
Cutting humanitarian aid will not make a peace deal suddenly materialize. It will not make Hamas give into Israeli demands, or the Palestinian Authority suddenly accept any peace deal placed in front of it. What will bring peace is bold leadership that challenges both sides to compromise. Giving one side (Israel) more money and moral support and the other side (Palestinians) no money and less support only deepens the gulf between the two, further delegitimizes the U.S. as an honest peace broker and stalls the road to peace. We have made peace more elusive and left millions vulnerable. It’s time to reverse this cruel and indefensible strategy. Restore humanitarian aid to Palestine.

President Donald Trump has decided to cut millions of dollars in economic, developmental and security aid to the Palestinians. While Israel receives nearly $4 billion a year from the U.S., the Palestinians will now receive no aid whatsoever. U.S. aid has provided Pal­estinians with food, academic scholarships, water systems, health care, money to construct schools, and other life essentials. U.S. leaders must ask themselves if targeting ordinary Palestinians in any way increases the chances of peace. Some suggest it’s a lever to force the Palestinians’ hands in peace negotiations. But this cut in aid does not hurt Palestinian leaders, but rather ordinary people, many of whom are disgruntled with their leadership. The U.S. must restore this aid and not make ordinary people suffer to make a political or ideological point.