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Question: Should the U.S. foot the bill for the resettlement of the Gaza Jews inside Israel? Pat Buchanan. |
MR. BUCHANAN: Well, that's $2.2 billion, John. There are about 1,900 settler families there. That's over a million dollars for each settler family, when we give $100,000 for the family of every American killed in Iraq.
This is an outrage to request that kind of money. We don't owe a dime here. The Israelis should not have moved into Gaza. It was never their territory. They went in there against our advice and counsel and against international law. They should pay the price of the withdrawal here....
MR. BUCHANAN: There is no balance. John, if you've got $2 billion, these poor Palestinians are poor as church mice in Gaza. The Israelis probably have 20 times the income they do. We're giving the Israelis the $2.2 billion. The Israelis are one one-hundredth of the population and got 25 percent of the land. What about a little more balance? There's a reason why there's such hatred on the part of the Palestinians, and it's because horrible injustices have been done to them for 50 years. | |