As part of its ongoing effort to explain how US funds got into Hamas coffers, the US State Department has rolled out what is maybe the worst argument ever:
But McCormack insists it was OK to pour US funds into there because... it has no connections to terrorists. It's the intellectual and sometimes military stronghold of Hamas - but sending students there and funding it in no way benefits Hamas. That's the official position of the United States State Department.
Take some time to mull that over.
[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]
Relipaundit adds: Good post Omri, and welcome aboard! DOS has long been a pro-Arabist institution, undermining Israel whenever it can. Congressman Ackerman promises to investigate, and make sure US taxpayers funds are NOT reaching terrorists or heir supporters.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said US officials concluded after a review that neither institution - the Islamic University of Gaza and al-Quds University - engages in terrorist activities.The Islamic University of Gaza was founded by Hamas spiritual leader Yassin in the aftermath of the Camp David Accords, in order to create a base for terrorist attacks on Egyptian pro-peace forces and Israelis (see also Levitt at NRO). It has counted among its faculty such arch-terrorists as Abdul Rantissi, the head of Hamas until Israel put a stop to him.
But McCormack insists it was OK to pour US funds into there because... it has no connections to terrorists. It's the intellectual and sometimes military stronghold of Hamas - but sending students there and funding it in no way benefits Hamas. That's the official position of the United States State Department.
Take some time to mull that over.
[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]
Relipaundit adds: Good post Omri, and welcome aboard! DOS has long been a pro-Arabist institution, undermining Israel whenever it can. Congressman Ackerman promises to investigate, and make sure US taxpayers funds are NOT reaching terrorists or heir supporters.
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