Bush seeks large aid increase to PA

Legislators are promising strict scrutiny of some $400 million the Bush administration is requesting in new aid for the Palestinians, but Congress is expected to give the proposal a warmer reception than previous such requests.

The administration has put forward the significant hike in Palestinian aid largely to bolster Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad.

Congress seems less wary of funding for Palestinians now that Hamas is no longer in the Fatah-controlled PA government, even though much smaller sums have been stalled in the past.

The request comes ahead of the US-sponsored Annapolis meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, for which the administration has been trying to recruit support from the greater Arab world and the Palestinians themselves, who have threatened to boycott the parley.

Hilary Leila Krieger

Everybody who thinks it's a good idea to provide aid to a country that freely elected a terrorist government, raise your hands.

This just makes obvious the fact that King Jorge's "War on a Noun" is nothing but a shill.