Un.Be.Liev.Able! - US provides 50 million dollars in aid for Palestinians
Washington said it had contributed 50 million dollars to a United Nations emergency relief fund for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza.
US Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs David Welch announced the contribution following talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, a US consulate statement said.
The United Nations — which has received less than a third of the funds it needs to deal with a humanitarian crisis in Palestinian areas — called on the international community Friday to help fill the 385-million-dollar shortfall.
“Never before have the Palestinians needed our compassion and solidarity more,” said UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) will use the 50.8-million-dollar US contribution to help provide food, employment and health services to some 1.8 million Palestinian refugees, the US consulate said.
UNRWA Commissioner General Karen Koning AbuZayd said in a statement the contribution arrived “at a time of severe deprivations among Palestine refugees in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.”
The European Commission also announced on Friday plans to release an additional 63 million dollars in humanitarian aid for the Palestinians.
Isn’t this the same Jan Egeland who called the Americans stingy? So, the US gives $50M (to be used against us) and the generous (gag me) Euro’s combined give $63M. I say stop giving aid to terrorists which is what the Palestinians are, plain and simple, they are sadistic, murdering terrorists. The US should not be giving any kind of aid to this extremist sect.
As a commenter at Lucianne stated so succinctly and accurately to this information:
Medicine - $0
Education - $0
Suicide Belts - $1 million
Paris Shopping - $49 million
US provides 50 million dollars in aid for Palestinians - Yahoo! News
h/t Lucianne
Just a veritable drop in the bucket. The irony is that the US is probably sending big bucks to both Lebanon and Israel too, albeit under different labels. How did we get dipped in this foreign aid tar pit anyhow?
Comment by NOTR — July 15, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Comment by Kevin Barbieux — July 16, 2006 @ 6:36 am
Kevin - moral equivalency solves nothing. It’s the failing of the Left. I pity you to have no principles other than this tripe.
Comment by Toni — July 16, 2006 @ 9:13 am
This “tripe” come from the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Your creator, and your final judge.
Comment by Kevin Barbieux — July 16, 2006 @ 3:40 pm
That’s just horrible. I thought we were fighting all terrorists states and those who give them aid. That would include us???
We really need to quit with the kinder/gentler war and actually fight to defeat this enemy.
Comment by beth — July 22, 2006 @ 12:08 am