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2007-09-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Donors offer $20 mln for Palestinian camp refugees

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Posted by Steve White 2007-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Fatah al-Islam

#1 C'mon now, boys. These lovely people spread joy wherever they go...
Make sure the UNRWA puts some of it in escrow for after the next time the Lebs have to go in and clean it out again, which will be soon enough.
Also, do the neighbors of Nahr Al Bared know about this, cuz I'm sure they'll be thrilled...

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-11 00:16|| 2007-09-11 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The United States led pledges with $10 million.

Whoever is responsible for this needs to be horsewhipped. Repeatedly.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-11 00:51|| 2007-09-11 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 As long as Pestinains can continue living without working there will be no peace in the zone. Palestinians ever allege not having money for basic neeeds but they ever have money for weapons and terrorism.

In other wortds we are fundoing their terrorism. Let them fund it, not us. From their work not ours.

And spend the money on people who really suffer (for instance the victims of ARab/Muslim atrocities in Sudan and elsewhere) not on people, who like the Palestinians whose children are fat.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-09-11 01:56|| 2007-09-11 01:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The amount pledged fell well short of estimates of what was needed

"May there be a silver lining,
Back of every cloud you see...."
Sinatra

Posted by Besoeker 2007-09-11 03:30|| 2007-09-11 03:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Just stupid and corrupt.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-09-11 04:19|| 2007-09-11 04:19|| Front Page Top

#6 For $20 million I can own all those Paleostinians? Can I bring them to Mississippi to pick cotton? At something like $10 each they'd even be cheaper than Mexicans.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-11 07:24|| 2007-09-11 07:24|| Front Page Top

#7 You don't wan'em Glenmore, they're bad house guests - break greenhouses, have wild gunsex parties and self-detonate at the slightest provocation.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-09-11 10:27|| 2007-09-11 10:27|| Front Page Top

#8 *shrug* Public pledges and actual deliveries tend to be mostly disconnected when it comes to little UN projects like this. Then too, UNRWA claims in this article to need $382.5 million, whereas the pledges listed total under $40 million, if I didn't miss any numbers.

I imagine the U.S. will pay her pledge eventually, but $10 million isn't going to buy many bullets, given how tight stocks are.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-11 10:51|| 2007-09-11 10:51|| Front Page Top

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