This morning I had an e-mail from a friend asking about that rumor that has been going around the internet ever since Obama first came to office that Obama had released $20 million to bring thousands of Hamas members to the US. Judy wrote about the eternal life of that story here last fall.
The e-mail prompted me to check the numbers and sure enough we are bringing larger numbers of Palestinians to the US although not the thousands the ‘rumor’ reports. In 2008 we only brought 9 Palestinians, and in 2009 we brought 730, this fiscal year we are up to 825 as of April 30th.
I am assuming the majority of those are the Iraqi Palestinians we told you about here. Living in camps on the border of Iraq and Syria, no Arab (Muslim) country wants them demonstrating again the great myth that Islam is charitable and “welcomes the stranger.” So, where do they go—the US of course! We agreed to take 1350, but I’m thinking, based on the numbers so far, either we are taking more than 1350 from the Iraq/Syria border or other Palestinians are in the mix.
By the way, if I recall from my earlier reporting, you won’t know if Iraqi-Palestinians are being resettled in your city because they will be called simply Iraqis.