Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. As a nation, it is time we learn that money is NOT the driving force policies in the Middle-East. They have the money, but choose to use in for the same Islamist purposes they've been following for centuries.
Further more, the U.S. is already on the edge of financial collapse. Let the federal reserve print (It is not federal, it is not a bank, and they have no reserves) more money for this and our inflation will only increase making it even harder. In addition to the "printed money" provided by our central bank, the gov't will redistribute even more of our hard-earned tax money just to make us think we are contributing to this false sense of peace.
This is some form of madness that many of our administrations, both Republican and Democrat, tend to want to solve with money. To keep doing the same thing and to expect different results is called what? What consulting member of the Muslim Brotherhood or Marxist operating inside our White House and Department of State is suggesting this approach? Congress, who controls the money, really needs to wake up. In addition to this short version, I recommend you read the entire original article.
"WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will announce this week a new aid plan for the Middle East and North Africa that U.S. officials say will be far bolder than previous American economic assistance to the region.
Mr. Obama will outline the plan, which could include debt cancelation and a reprogramming of financial aid the U.S. already provides to countries like Egypt, in a speech he is scheduled to deliver Thursday at the State Department.
Whatever aid he announces, though, is unlikely to assuage Arab governments, which had been hoping the White House would push forcibly for a resumption of Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. The president's aides say his speech will focus only briefly on the issue.
"At the end of the day, the Palestinian cause remains a dominant issue," said a senior Arab official. "A speech by the president without addressing the conflict is unlikely to generate much enthusiasm."
[....] Mr. Obama's speech comes a day before the president is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. After meeting with King Abdullah, Mr. Obama said "it's more vital than ever that both Israelis and Palestinians find a way to get back to the table."
In the speech, Mr. Obama will seek to connect the death of Osama bin Laden with the popular uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa.
"The Arab Spring represents a real and organic repudiation of the things bin Laden stood for in the region and among the people he claimed to represent," a senior administration official said Tuesday, previewing one of the speech's themes.
There will be no new policy on the Mideast peace process in the speech, but Mr. Obama is likely to address the union of the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas factions, the official said, and to say Hamas must reject terrorism and recognize Israel's right to exist if it wants to be part of the Palestinian government.
The president is also expected to refer to the pending effort to have the United Nations recognize a Palestinian state. He plans to restate U.S. policy that the conflict should be settled through negotiations, not by a declaration."
