Conservative Alan Duncan, minister for international development, claimed Israel deprives Palestinians of water in government video posted on his department website last month.
The usual Evil Israelis/Innocent Palestinians stuff.
During his visit to the Palestinian territories, Duncan signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad pledging to tackle poverty. Britain is set to provide up to £349 million to support the Palestinians over the next four years.
Did he get his prime minister's agreement before signing? It seems to me his government is in drastic budget cutting mode, and adding line items oughtn't sit well with the voters...
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And while in South Sudan or in Darfur peopel are starving Geat Britain is going to provided 349 million pouds (that is on top of waht it gives through UN) to overweight Palestinians.
BTW, anyone has seen photos of South Soudan's independence celebrations: the crowd was waving American and Israeli flags. Palestinians danced on 9/11.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
