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2018-01-31 International-UN-NGOs

11 countries speed up funding for Palestinians after US cuts

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 So any US funds earmarked for any of those countries needs to be rethought and kept at home.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-01-31 01:19|| 2018-01-31 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 nine European countries have agreed to speed up their contributions

Shouldn't these European countries take care of their own Muslim citizens first?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-01-31 05:25|| 2018-01-31 05:25|| Front Page Top

#3 ...or at least their own defense. If they have these funds available why weren't they picking up their own national security first? Time to leave a MAG team in Brussels and get the hell out of Dodge.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-01-31 08:16|| 2018-01-31 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Commissioner General Pierre Krähenbuhl of the UN Relief and Works Agency

Yes, I remember some of those delightful (Food For Peace) people from the old Canal Hotel in Baghdad. Something of a skewed agenda, but delightful people nonetheless.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-31 08:21|| 2018-01-31 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 UNRWA chief says Russia, Kuwait, and 9 European nations are stepping up contributions

So they have a hard time paying their UN and NATO dues but plenty of money to slit their own throats?

Posted by gorb 2018-01-31 09:36|| 2018-01-31 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 ...thus proving that America was never needed in the first place.

Brilliant, just brilliant. Trump is a master.

Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2018-01-31 12:44|| 2018-01-31 12:44|| Front Page Top

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