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The White House - Blog Post - Relief for Gaza:
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the "Act"), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
Though even as little as 10 times this much is still a fraction of what goes to Israel and Egypt to keep the Gazans down, and greatly improves the lives of the people of Gaza to the point that they'll no longer support violent means of political change. $20.3 million, however, will barely make a dent and isn't even as much as has been reported that Hamas has put up. Perhaps it's time to go back to the methods of the cold war, less actual war, more competition to out-spend the oppenent...
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