Bipartisan House Bill Seeks To Cut Off All U.S. Aid To Lebanon As Long As Hezbollah Remains Part Of Coalition Government…
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LOS ANGELES — A Jewish congressman has joined with three Lebanese-American colleagues to sponsor a bill to cut off American aid to Lebanon, as long as Hezbollah remains part of the ruling coalition government.
The unusual alliance, cutting across ethnic and political lines, was initiated by Democratic Rep. Howard Berman of Los Angeles and includes Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Charles Boustany (R-La.) and Nick Rahall (D-W. Va.).
Designated as the Hezbollah Anti-Terrorism Act, or HATA, the bill seeks legislation “to make certain that no US taxpayer funds benefit the terrorist organization Hezbollah or any party that allies itself with Hezbollah,” Berman said in a phone interview Friday from his Washington office.
Berman drafted and introduced HATA a few days after the formation of a new Lebanese government “forged by Hezbollah and led by a Hezbollah-designated prime minister [Najib Mikati],” Berman said.
The California legislator, formerly the chairman and now the ranking democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, termed his alliance with the three Lebanese-American congressmen as “very unusual.”
He attributed the support by his three colleagues to their deep concern over Hezbollah’s threat to freedom and democracy in their ancestral homeland, overriding any differences with Berman on Israeli-Palestinian issues.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, June 20, 2011, at 10:14 am | 
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“to make certain that no US taxpayer funds benefit the terrorist organization Hezbollah or any party that allies itself with Hezbollah”
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Won’t that interfere with the “aid” that the US is sending to Libya?
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I’ll bet you a dollar even if this bill passed both houses Barack Hussein would veto it.
Obama will never allow it. He is all about supporting the worse components of Islam and trying to be a hero to those who would attack this nation. The stark difference between the military he commands and his own perspective is mind numbing. Has he ever even visited with the parents of a fallen military member?
Militant Islam will have four years to murder Americans and wreck havoc internationally until hopefully, this experiment with electing someone with zero experience and a fervent dislike for anything Western democracy while living like a king, is voted out of power along with his radical czars and very expensive wife.
Helen Thomas will be devastated.
How about no more money for a single arab nation or for any nation that is more than 0.000005% muslim?
How about we stop playing Santa Claus to the world and get our own house in order and then take a good hard look at what we want to do?
Exception to Israel, whom I think we should help.
Barry s veto in 3 . .2 . . 1
And yet we’ll still be sending money to Palestine and Pakistan and Egypt..
@ThomNJ
Israel has a substantial Muslim population. Maybe you could rework those numbers.