The terrorists who would otherwise have been huddling in villas in Tunisia waiting for the Mossad to come and shoot them would like to know what America ever did for them.
Completely ignoring the continuous financial aid the Palestinian Authority has received from the US - which amounts to more than $5.2 billion since 1994 through USAID alone - Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul announced in an interview that the Americans "have not given the Palestinians anything of substance," and that "nothing good will come from them":
That's courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch.
Now sure, we could count up all the billions of dollars. And it comes out to a lot more than $5.2 billion because the money gets routed through to the PLO's front group a dozen different ways. But the only reason that the Palestinian Authority even exists is decades of pressure by different administrations on Israel to "resolve the problem" through peace negotiations. The negotiations happened, but there's no state, just a state of terror.
Al-Aloul: "It is the assessment of the entire Palestinian leadership. If we review the relations with all of the American administrations, we see that they have not given the Palestinians anything of substance but rather worked in order to pull the rug out from under their feet by exerting pressures on them, and that with all their might they support [the Palestinians'] enemy that is occupying their lands."
The conspiratorial ingratitude is fairly typical of the region. It's why no amount of appeasement ever works.
Let's look back at Aloul's career. Israel deported him to Jordan in '71. He operated abroad heading portions of the terror group until the Bush\Clinton peace process disaster brought the terrorists back into Israel.
He's also known as Abou Jihad, and his son, Jihad Al-Aloul was killed in the fighting with Israel.
His position on Israel has been quite clear.
He is frequently spotted leading protests in the West Bank, and in November of last year, he gave a speech where he declared: “When we talk about our enemies, we talk about the [Israeli] occupation and the United States.”
And Aloul is also a possible successor to Abbas. Meanwhile the United States has been funding and arming this terrorist group.
Al-Aloul has a great history within the movement, and he has respected standpoints as he was one of the aides of deceased Martyr (Shahid) Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ (i.e., former head of the PLO terror organization’s military wing), and added that he commands great respect from the Palestinian people and Fatah people and members.”
Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960’s - 1980’s. These attacks, which killed a total of 125 Israelis, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
What have we ever done for then? Far, far too much.