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| Belgium pledges $23M to UNRWA after US cut |
| 2018-01-18 |
| [Ynet] Belgium is stepping in to help the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees with a pledge of $23 million, days after the USA announced it will be cutting funds for UNRWA in half. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said Wednesday that "for a lot of Paleostinian refugees, the UNRWA is the last life buoy." Among the group's projects are helping half a million children get an education and fending off attempts to radicalize them. De Croo said he was responding to the global fundraising appeal in hopes of making up for funding cuts announced by the United States. The 19 million euros is Belgium's allocation for three years, but De Croo's office said it would be "disbursed immediately. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 Is Belgium up to date on their NATO spending. If not the money should be going there. Yes I know the EUnics are deadbeats but it's the proper shortfall to address. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-01-18 22:09 |
| #10 had the West stopped funding UNRWA years ago there would be today few if any Palestine refugee camps. It was decades ago, but one of the things that changed my opinion of Paleos was some news footage from a Palestinian refugee camp showing people living in a two-story cinder block building. Conduit on the outside suggested electric service. Now maybe I'm a traditionalist, but for me, a refugee camp means tents, porta-johns and people standing in line for bags of rice and powdered milk. This was more like a cheap apartment complex. Given the amount of money shoveled into the "Palestinian Cause", you could have created a freaking Abu Dhabi by now One of the glories of the Trumpening is that this long-running scam is coming to an end. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-01-18 10:51 |
| #9 I would suggest that had the West stopped funding UNRWA years ago there would be today few if any Palestine refugee camps. |
| Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 2018-01-18 10:25 |
| #8 Do that again and we're nominating you for moderator :-) *OUCH* Removed. I'm blaming my meds Frank. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-18 10:11 |
| #7 What happened there? Hit submit and the screen flickered. Sorry. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-01-18 09:49 |
| #6 Migrant Crisis: 77 Per Cent of Belgians ‘No Longer Feel at Home’ Hmm I doubt they support this. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-01-18 09:45 |
| #5 Let's put an ad in all the Belgian newspapers and on line asking Belgian tax payers if they agree with this. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-01-18 09:40 |
| #4 Let Belgium pay for it. |
| Posted by: bernardz 2018-01-18 03:39 |
| #3 Belgium is stepping in to help the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees with a pledge of $23 million Wouldn't it were better if you invested this money in Belgian Congo? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-18 03:30 |
| #2 This means we should cut even more, 'cuz our European 'pals' will pick up the slack every time, right? I sense a 'two birds with one stone' thing happening here. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-01-18 01:35 |
| #1 Among the group's projects are helping half a million children get an education and fending off attempts to radicalize them. I'll bet even this "education" includes the definition of the word "fungible". |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-01-18 01:02 |