As we told you previously, “Since 1994, USAID has provided more than $2.9 billion in U.S. economic assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.” That was in 2009, so that figure is up over $4 BILLION in U.S. taxpayer dollars wasted. And U.S. companies are barred from the latest $300 million project to build up Hamas territories. Shovel ready.
Steve Peacock over at Steve Peacock’s U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor has been covered this since early this year yet we haven’t heard a peep from the media or anyone else. via Obama to Exclude U.S. Companies from $300 Million Palestinian Project. h/t blacklistednews
Indeed, the stated goal of this U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) project is to award program contracts solely to West Bank and Gaza-area vendors, according to presolicitation notice released today.
Terrorist Hamas run areas.
The Local Construction Program, or LCP, as it is known, will seek out non-governmental entities to carry out a variety of initiatives involving “local construction or rehabilitation of roads, buildings, water, wastewater, public buildings including health facilities, schools, and other infrastructure.”
USAID said it expects to release a formal Request for Proposals around September 3, and will not accept bids until that time. The agency revealed few other details.
As U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor reported earlier this year, USAID began awarding contracts in a separate Palestinian project worth upwards of three-quarters of a billion dollars (see: USAID Contracts Start Flowing in $750 Million Palestinian Infrastructure Project; Monitor, Jan. 14, 2012).
Helping to create a modern Palestinian state is a top priority for the Obama White House, which explicitly has made clear its intentions to accomplish that task —even if it means taking away business from Israel.