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Israel-Palestine
Israel urged to rescue Palestinian economy
2004-11-23
"Nope. Can't do it. Too busy occupying. Try asking Soddy Arabia."
The World Bank called on Israel to sharply reduce army closures which have decimated Palestinian trade and employment, painting a bleak picture of the economy of the occupied territories. Four years into the Palestinian uprising, average incomes have dropped by more than a third and a quarter of the workforce is unemployed, said one report entitled: "Four years - Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis". A massive 47 percent of the Palestinian population in the occupied territories live below the official poverty line, on barely two dollars a day, the report found. "More than 600,000 people - 16 percent of the population - cannot afford even the basic necessities for subsistence."

A second report entitled "Deep Palestinian Poverty in the Midst of Economic Crisis" said that generally well-targeted donor relief had helped in preventing widespread malnutrition and lowered the poverty rate. But it warned that "in the short term, a significant portion of the Palestinian population is likely to remain poor and increasingly vulnerable to further shocks as their savings are exhausted". Donors disbursed 883 million dollars in 2003 - 264 million of which went to emergency and humanitarian aid and the same amount to budget support.
Suha spent the rest.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Looks like them suicide/murder bombings had a very high price tag. Has someone in Paleo-land realized this yet?
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-11-23 9:07:48 PM  

#8  Closures, stop and searches, entry permits, sounds like a war or something.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-11-23 6:53:57 PM  

#7  Maybe they can get a matching grant form the Magic Kingdom so they stop sending their money to build Madrassas in South Asia.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-11-23 5:38:25 PM  

#6  If the members of the World Bank think that Israel is ever going to open its borders to Palestinians again, they are crazy. It's more likely that Israel will start importing Mexicans to do the work formerly done by Palestinans than that Israelis will ever voluntarilay expose themselves to this tribe of murders. Israel's policy to the Palestinians can be expressed succinctly as FOAD.
Posted by: Random thoughts   2004-11-23 5:34:49 PM  

#5  This is contravened everytime some Palestinian unloads his AK-47 in "celebratory gunfire." Although the cost of 7.62mm ammunition varies according to supply and demand, the range that I've seen for that area is between $1 and $7 per bullet. So every 30 round clip of 7.62 launched heavenward costs between $30 and $210. As long as they can afford celebratory (or hostile) gunfire, they don't need economic help from us.
Posted by: RWV   2004-11-23 5:29:41 PM  

#4  ever see a skinny paleo kid with a distended stomache--its bull--these people are the fattest most well fed poor people in world history--they only lose weight when they have aids like their late leader
Posted by: SON OF TOLUI   2004-11-23 5:25:19 PM  

#3  The paleos should get their own house in order. If they'd give up genocide as a way of life and actually work for a living, their economy wouldn't be in the toilet.

You'll notice I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-11-23 5:10:35 PM  

#2  I hope they got all of Suha's financial info in order so, when she's found face down in the Seine,
they can grab it all up and can kick all these folks back a few bucks.
I'm sure Suha would want it that way...
Posted by: tu3031   2004-11-23 5:05:39 PM  

#1  Jihad is expensive.
Posted by: gromgorru   2004-11-23 5:00:32 PM  

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