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| Abbas Seeks Urgent Aid on Saudi Visit |
| 2012-07-14 |
| [An Nahar] Paleostinian leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... visited Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... and met King Abdullah on Friday to seek urgent aid for his administration as the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan nears. The leaders, who met in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, discussed "the financial crisis of the Paleostinian Authority (PA) which will no longer be able to pay its employees as Ramadan approaches," the Paleostinians' top diplomat in Riyadh said. "President Abbas asked for the help of the Saudi kingdom which he thanked for its continued support to the Paleostinians," Jamal Shobaki told Agence La Belle France Presse. He said they also discussed the stagnant Israeli-Paleostinian grinding of the peace processor and Israel's policy of building Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank and in annexed east Jerusalem, a major obstacle to a resumption of peace negotiations. The PA's debts have climbed to $1.5 billion, said Shobaki who, citing statistics from prime minister Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... 's government, estimated $500 million was needed in urgent aid to tackle the current crisis. |
| Posted by:Fred |