Aid for Palestinians? 'bout time

Dubya has pledged to give $50 million in housing aid
directly to the Palestinian people. Well, it's about freakin'
time. Far too often in the past, any aid we promised to
help make the lives of Palestinians a bit better ended up
in the pockets of the people making their lives worse.

Yeah, I mean the Israelis. Anybody who buys into the
notion that the Israelis are somehow being persecuted by
the Palestinians is an idiot. While it is true that their Arab
neighbors, the one's with nation states, didn't much care for
having a country full of foreigners slapped down in the
middle of Arab lands back in '47, it is also true the the
Palestinians who were displaced roughly are not the same
as Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.

Don't make the racist assumption that an Arab is and Arab is
and Arab. The Palestinians were forcefully removed from their
native land, how the hell would you fell about it? The Israelis
hold all the cards and could make peace if they wanted to, but they
don't. They get far too much money out of the United States to
exercise their bigotry and hatred against the only Arabs whose
asses they can kick on a daily basis.

The United States needs to stop taking sides with 'our friends' in
Israel. Their democracy is a joke, they aren't "the only country in
the region that is like the U.S." and we get nothing of benefit from
them.