Wednesday redux… USAID report

Here’s a radical thought – entitle a column Wednesday and actually publish it Wednesday. The really sad part – when we write a column, we fill in what date and time for it to publish (see below), and as you can see in the above: I keep a calendar a whole 3″ from the keyboard and still screwed it up.

Well, we have been hearing how Musk/DOGE has targeted United States Agency for International Development (USAID).  We have seen reports that they disbursed large sums of money to media organizations which favor the Democrats, which is already concerning. Now, Middle East Forum think tank has released a multi-year study of disbursemenets which, if true, makes you want to find a wall,  some willing volunteers, and suitable armaments.

“The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164 million of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters,” the conservative think tank wrote in its report published Feb. 4.

Seemingly, not only does USAID not vet their donees, the government hasn’t seemed to care about them.

The Middle East Forum’s report focuses specifically on funds from USAID and the State Department that wound up in the hands of radical groups and organizations tied to terrorism.

The think tank reported that among its top findings, USAID was found to have given more than $900,000 to a “Gaza-based terror charity” called Bayader Association for Environment and Development. The funding began in 2016, and its most recent allocation was made just days before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023

“??But USAID coordinates directly with Bayader as well,” according to the report. “USAID officials have praised Bayader’s work on social media, and even visited Bayader’s offices, where one senior USAID official, Jonathan Kamin, received an award from the terror-linked charity.”

The report also found that USAID approved a $12.5 million grant in 2024 to the American Near East Refugee Agency, which is also “a long-standing partner” of Bayader. The American Near East Refugee Agency is an NGO that was established in 1968 in an effort to assist refugees following the Arab-Israeli War.

The report found staffers with the NGO have repeatedly and publicly posted “violent ideas, without apparent censure from top charity officials.” The comments on social media posted by employees include: calling on God to “erase the Jews,” expressing support for the “brave prisoners” in Israeli jails during the Hamas-Israel war, and describing Oct. 7, 2023, as a “beautiful morning.”

Certainly where we think our funding should go. Per Sam Westrop, the director of the Middle East Forum’s counter-extremism project:

“USAID won’t even tell us how much they gave the Unlimited Friends Association, a Gaza terror charity which operates with help from Hamas. The head of the charity promises to ‘cleanse’ their land of ‘impure Jews,’” Westrop posted in the thread of an example.

“USAID gave millions to Islamic Relief, whose Gaza branch openly works with senior terrorist officials in Gaza, including Hamas politburo member Ghazi Hamad. who promised that Hamas would repeat Oct 7 attacks ‘time and again until Israel is annihilated,’” he posted in another example from the report.  Fox News

Enlisted barracks falling apart because we don’t have money to maintain them…and millions funneled to terrorists.  Wall, volunteers, etc.

 

 

Change the date, month or year if need be, change the time, and tell it yes. So simple anyone could do it…except me.

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Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Crime, Foreign Policy