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2011-02-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza unemployment rate reaches staggering 45.4 pct - UNRWA

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Assuming that Israel had no say in it, what projects could UNRWA do that would make much of a difference?

Posted by Bernardz 2011-02-10 04:28|| 2011-02-10 04:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Running low on parts at the rocket assembly plants?

Posted by CincinnatusChili 2011-02-10 07:08|| 2011-02-10 07:08|| Front Page Top

#3 And we should care because of? They have had sixty two years, sixty two fricking years to buiold an economy not to mention how they burnt the greenhoses who were supoposed to bring them jobs ~~and make them earn their money instead of siphonning ours~~. Dissolve the UNRWA and make Palestinians take care of themselves (or the Saudis fund them). And BTW I want back that money the Palestinins have squandered or used in funding terrorism.

Posted by JFM 2011-02-10 07:23|| 2011-02-10 07:23|| Front Page Top

#4 "Hey, we're not unemployed. We're busy resisting the illegal occupation by the Zionist Entity.

P.S. Send money!"

Posted by SteveS 2011-02-10 10:40|| 2011-02-10 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Karl,

Doesn't digging tunnels and launching Katushka rockets into Israel count as employment?

James,

It appears to me that the UN forgot that most of the able bodied types are running around all night shooting up each other's hookah hangouts and they're too tired to have an 8 to 5 job...maybe its all of the hashish and bad coffee taking its toll.

Karl,

The UN is just a bunch of cry babies and sissies.

Posted by James Carville/Karl Rove 2011-02-10 11:45|| 2011-02-10 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess they ran out of plumbing pipes to make rockets with.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-10 11:46|| 2011-02-10 11:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect there are pockets of unemployment about that high in the U.S. I wonder what the unemployment rate is say in parts of Detroit? Or among young people?

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-10 16:18|| 2011-02-10 16:18|| Front Page Top

#8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid_to_Palestinians#2007-2009
In December 2007, during the Paris Donor Conference, which followed the Annapolis Conference, the international community pledged over $7.7 billion for 20082010 in support of the Palestinian Reform and Development Program (PRDP).

Following the 20082009 IsraelGaza conflict, an international conference took place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where donors pledged almost $4.5 billion for the reconstruction of Gaza.

That's $12.2 billion over 3 years.

Posted by George Thetch6690 2011-02-10 19:15|| 2011-02-10 19:15|| Front Page Top

#9 That's $12.2 billion over 3 years.

Most of the promised checks were never written, George Thetch6690.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-10 22:19|| 2011-02-10 22:19|| Front Page Top

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