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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN delivers Japanese emergency aid to Palestinians
2006-07-11
The UN World Food Program is in the midst of distributing 2,200 tons (2,000 metric tons) of wheat flour to 300,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank, the WFP said Monday. The flour is part of a US$1.4 million (euro1.1 million) donation from Japan aimed at feeding a population that lost most access to funds after Israel and Western donor governments responded to the Hamas election victory by cutting off aid.

The UN said many impoverished Gaza families are now living on only one meal a day. "The people receiving the food ration have no money left to buy even basic commodities and have had to resort to negative coping measures that include selling their assets," Arnold Vercken, WFP's director in the occupied territories, said in a release.
Posted by:Fred

#7  At least Japan isn't giving them money which they can then spend on arms and ammo. (Food isn't quite as fudgeable as dollars).

I bet the Vampire Vulture Elite at the UN aren't letting on where the food came from - prefering to take the credit themselves.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-07-11 11:03  

#6  negative coping measures
I guess we've all been there.
Posted by: 6   2006-07-11 10:54  

#5  Let them eat Yellowcake.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-07-11 10:33  

#4  Was hoping for condoms and pork rinds.


Spread the rumor. The wheat is preserved with powdered pork heheheh
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-07-11 01:19  

#3  Where's a pirate when you need one?
Posted by: ed   2006-07-11 00:58  

#2  shulda donayted nintendoes insted
Posted by: muck4doo   2006-07-11 00:55  

#1  Well that was stupid, Japan.

Let them live and die with their freely-made democratic choices. That is a key lesson and very important aspect of democracy. Time for everyone to back the fuck off and let them learn it. The harder it is, the faster normal people learn. I think of the Paleos as a uniquely self-destructive population - and this as a remarkable opportunity, taking the clinical view here, to see how long it takes them to catch on. If they never do, then they were obviously slated by Darwin for this end. I'm cool with that.
Posted by: Wheang Spavirong9833   2006-07-11 00:46  

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