Far to little and way too late, that is how the U.N. operates.
But the reason why is only due to the fact that NOBODY wants to really help this part of the World; and for good reason.
Too many countries have tried and been burnt in the end, there is no helping savages.
Too bad because of that small children have too suffer and die, but this is what the Militants want.
Al Jazzeera
Famine has spread to a sixth area of Somalia and tens of thousands of people have died as a result of severe food shortages, the United Nations has said.
More than half of Somalia's entire population faces a severe food shortage, and the world body has now officially extended the famine zone.
In Mogadishu, there are now half a million refugees and there are warnings from the UN that the famine could spread to the entire south of the country by the end of the year.
The UN says it needs at least $1bn, but one leading charity says the public is being mislead into believing that money can solve the crisis.
Medicine Sans Frontiere, Doctors Without Borders, wants international aid agencies to admit that reaching some of the worst affected victims of famine may not be possible.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Somalia famine spreads 'beyond reach of aid'
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Fighting in Mogadishu amid aid delivery
The Fighting has not spread to where the aid is being delivered...Yet.
But Al Shabab will continue to wreak terror among the people in other places because of the aid.
Give them time.
Foxnews
Heavy fighting has broken out in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a day after the UN World Food Programme airlifted in its first famine emergency aid.
At least four people are reported to have been killed as government forces, backed by African Union troops, attacked Islamist insurgents.
The BBC's Mohammed Dhore in Mogadishu says the clashes are in northern areas and unlikely to affect the aid effort.
Thousands have arrived into government-controlled suburbs in search of food.
Correspondents say if the pro-government forces manage to gain more ground this could enable aid agencies to increase the areas where they can deliver food aid to victims of the severe drought.
The WFP delivery is the first airlift of food aid since the UN declared a famine in two southern areas of Somalia last week.
Al-Shabab, the al-Qaeda linked group which controls much of Somalia, has banned the WFP from its areas.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Pakistan condemns Bin Laden raid and US drone attacks
Most of us would love to see ties between Pakistan and the U.S. severed, Especially when it comes to aid!
Pakistan has never really been on our side in any of this'
They have never liked or approved the drones, so while we are still in Afghanistan, we can continue with those.
They appear to love the Taliban more than ever so I say let em have em, see how things are in a year of the Taliban still bombing and killing civilians all the time.
BBC
Pakistan's parliament has called for a review of the country's relationship with the US over the American commando raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
During a long joint session held to debate the US operation, MPs called for an independent investigation.
They unanimously passed a resolution urging a ban on Nato transit convoys unless the US ends drone attacks.
The session followed Friday's double suicide bombing that killed 80 people in north-western Pakistan.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Libya aid ship moving again, heading to Egypt
O.K. so the Libyan "AID SHIP" did not tempt the port in Gaza , instead opting to dock in Egypt , if they are not hiding anything why did they not continue on to Gaza ?
Are they carrying stuff they should not be ?
Or is Israel that menacing ?
AP
JERUSALEM — A Libyan charity's aid ship, flanked by Israeli missile boats, was sailing in the direction of an Egyptian port on Wednesday, apparently deciding not to defy Israel's naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Egypt's state news agency MENA cited an unidentified security official as saying that Egyptian authorities and the Red Crescent medical service were "making preparations" to receive the Moldovan-flagged Almathea.
An Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the ship's course, confirmed that the vessel was headed in the direction of the Egyptian port of El-Arish.
With the vessel's organizers insisting the ship would go to Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israel insisting it would not, the potential for a showdown on the high seas had loomed large. Framing the faceoff was a deadly Israeli naval raid of another blockade-busting ship in May.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Israeli Commandoes kill 10 on aid flotilla
Israeli commandos stormed an aid flotilla and killed ten after they attacked with metal bats, knives, and even shot at. The commandos claim that after rapelling onto the deck from a helicopter a group of Arabic speaking men took them by surprise and striped them of their helmets and side arms.
AP News
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 10 passengers in a predawn raid that set off worldwide condemnation and a diplomatic crisis.
Israel said its commandos were attacked by knives, clubs and live fire from two pistols wrested from soldiers after they rappelled from a helicopter to board one of the vessels.
Dozens of activists and at least 10 Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody confrontation in international waters.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Clinton Says Pakistan Told of Terror ‘Consequences’
But what does Pakistan still get ?
(Reuters)KARACHI
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Pakistan's central bank said on Wednesday it had received $468 million from the United States in compensation for some of its costs in battling militancy.
that Plus another 188 million a few days before !
May 7
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. officials have told Pakistan it would face “severe consequences” if locally based militants succeeded in attacking the U.S., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a “60 Minutes” television interview.
Clinton said Pakistan has increased its cooperation with the U.S. in the fight against militants along its border with Afghanistan. Even so, the attempted car bombing of New York’s Times Square has prompted U.S. concerns, she said.
“We’ve made it very clear that if -- heaven forbid -- an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences,” Clinton said, according to excerpts of an interview released today by CBS. The segment will air May 9
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Afghanistan Reconciliation conference: Selling out and getting suckered - AGAIN.
And here I thought that the US didn't negotiate with terrorists. Silly me. Turns out that the Obama administration "toyed with the idea" early on in their tenure. (Interesting how they 'toy' with the lives of American soldiers, isn't it?)
Patrick Cronin, a senior advisor at the Center for New American Security, said on "Washington Unplugged" Thursday that United States officials first toyed with the idea of negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan early on in the Obama administration, though they did not act.
He said that early debate over possible negotiations – as part of an effort to combat al Qaeda – came during a "point of weakness" for the United States. Things have changed since then, he argued.
"Now that we have committed to a new Afghan policy, if not strategy," Cronin said, "...we are in a relatively strong position to at least talk about the tactic of reaching out to at least some members of the Taliban." Cronin said the administration can now differentiate between rank and file and Taliban leadership.
How can we be in a "relatively strong position" if we are talking about cutting and running? How can we be negotiating with the Taliban in the middle of a troop surge? And why would we even consider such a thing given the miserable failure of the last such reconciliation attempt?
Thousands of Taliban militants laid down their Kalashnikovs and signed up for the old program, which lasted 41/2 years and cost $3 million. But many fighters didn't get the money and land they were promised and rejoined the insurgency. Others took the cash and returned to the Taliban anyway.
"That program was ridiculous," said Mohammad Arsalan Rahmani, a former Taliban deputy minister and now a senator in Afghanistan's parliament. "Taliban fighters who surrendered have been arrested. They never got the land and money that were promised.
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Britain and Japan will head a new, much larger international fund aimed at persuading fighters to switch sides, British officials said Tuesday. Japan, Britain and the U.S. are expected to be the largest contributors initially. The fund, which will be formally announced during an international aid gathering in London this week, is expected to reach $500 million.
Part of the grand plan? Sewing lessons.
Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward Jr., the commander of the military task force that assumed oversight of the prison system Jan. 7, (and the person tasked with reintegrating captured Taliban inmates to society) said a crucial part of his job is to separate hard-core Islamic extremists from detainees who can be reintegrated into Afghan society.
For the latter group, Harward plans to beef up education and training programs, teaching detainees masonry, cooking, sewing and other skills. "If we can give them a skill, when they come back to their village they can contribute and, at the end of the day, have a higher purpose in life," he said.
Unfortunately Vice Admiral, they already have a higher purpose in life - the death cult of ISLAM and all the sewing classes in the world will not change that.
For their part the Taliban reject the idea of peace talks out of hand.
Avoiding any discussion of compromise, the Taliban leadership council called for "the full withdrawal of the invading forces," the release of all prisoners from Afghan, Pakistani, and US jails, and the removal of all names from the United Nations terrorist sanctions list.
The Taliban said they had no intentions of negotiating with the Afghan government, which they described as "traffickers of intoxications items, human rights violators, corrupt persons, national traitors and usurpers of people private properties." Instead, Mullah Omar, the Taliban's leader, seeks to reinstall the Islamic Emirate.
It looks like the Taliban are already getting some of their demands met: UN eases sanctions on 5 Taliban leaders.
And the rights of Afghani women? Look for them to be thrown under the bus.
About the conference's communique summarizing the outcome? It was a largely boilerplate document which glossed over the major issues and was leaked by the Germans before the participants even sat down to their lunch of goat cheese and sea bass!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid
Oh Hugo !
What an ass this guy is , Yeah we want to occupy Haiti !
What we have is a Humanitarian disaster , We the U.S. coming to help out , along with a lot of other countries !
Then we have the People of Haiti , theirs lives have been changed dramatically in the past week , and they are getting Desperate , So Desperate that Quite a Few of them are running the streets armed and willing to kill for food !
We must protect our people in order to distribute the food and medicine once it gets there , so that OUR people are not killed in a Stampede !
We have done this before Hugo , We Know what we are doing !
You just sit on your fat ass and take over your country !
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation.
"I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send," Chavez said on his weekly television show. "They are occupying Haiti undercover."
"On top of that, you don't see them in the streets. Are they picking up bodies? ... Are they looking for the injured? You don't see them. I haven't seen them. Where are they?"
Chavez promised to send as much gasoline as Haiti needs for electricity generation and transport.
A perennial foe of U.S. "imperialism," Chavez said he did not wish to diminish the humanitarian effort made by the United States and was only questioning the need for so many troops.
The United States is sending more than 5,000 Marines and soldiers to Haiti, and a hospital ship is due to arrive later this week.
The country's president said U.S. troops would help keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets.
Venezuela has sent several planes to Haiti with doctors, aid and some soldiers. A Russia-Venezuela mission was set to leave Venezuela on Monday carrying aid on Russian planes.
Chavez said Venezuela's planes were the first to land in Haiti after Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake, which wrecked the capital Port-Au-Prince and killed as many as 200,000 people.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Saudis ask for aid if world cuts oil dependence
After raking in 10s of trillions of dollars over the past decades the Saudis have some nerve asking for aid if demand for oil drops. Chronicle Energy
Saudi Arabia has led a quiet campaign during these and other negotiations — demanding behind closed doors that oil-producing nations get special financial assistance if a new climate pact calls for substantial reductions in the use of fossil fuels.
That campaign comes despite an International Energy Agency report released this week showing that OPEC revenues would still increase $23 trillion between 2008 and 2030 — a fourfold increase compared to the period from 1985 to 2007 — if countries agree to significantly slash emissions and thereby cut their use of oil. That is the limit most countries agree is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Friday, July 24, 2009
U.S. announces $200 million in aid to Palestinians
Sure their is progress now , we just gave the Palestinians 200 million dollars to come to the table for a few Minutes ! anyhow , the money will be disbursed to the Terrorist group most in need !
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday there had been some progress toward reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the "near future" and announced $200 million in U.S. aid to the Palestinians.
Clinton said the money, which is part of a $900 million pledge she made in March at a donors conference in Egypt, was transferred directly to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority and would help it meet a budget shortfall.
The infusion of U.S. funds comes ahead of a visit this weekend to Israel and the Palestinian territories by U.S. special envoy George Mitchell, who is trying to create conditions to get stalled talks resumed between both sides.
"I believe we are making progress to create the environment for a successful resumption of negotiations in the near future," Clinton said at a news conference, without providing a timeline of when talks could resume and under what conditions.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad appeared via video link-up from the West Bank and thanked the United States for the financial help.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
US Senators urge Obama to rethink Pakistan aid
$12 billion in aid to Pakistan since 2002 aimed at helping Pakistan fight the taliban and al Qaida in the tribal regions. Instead of seeing a reduction in threat posed by the taliban and al Qaida from Pakistan it has actually increased significantly.
Thats why a group of US Senators are urging the Obama administration to rethink US aid policy towards Pakistan. What has Pakistan done with the $12 billion meant to fight the taliban? Definitely wasn't used to fight the taliban. In fact, some of that money actually went to the taliban. Good to have allies like Pakistan. WA TodayUS SENATORS have called for a rethink on aid to Pakistan after a watchdog said more than $US12 billion in US aid had failed to eliminate the country's militant haven.
The call came as the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan started talks in Washington with the Obama Administration on how to combat extremism.
The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found the US has spent $US12.3 billion ($A19.14 billion) since 2002 aiming to end the terrorist threat on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
"Despite six years of US and Pakistani Government efforts, al-Qaeda has regenerated its ability to attack the United States and continues to maintain a safe haven in Pakistan's FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas)," it said.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Move in US to get Pakistan aid stopped
Its about frigging time.
Ever since I launched this blog I've been asking why has Pakistan received so much money in aid. Eleven billion dollars in aid has been given to Pakistan since 2002. There are countless examples of Pakistan turning a blind eye, assisting, helping, training and arming terrorists, who are actively fighting us. The worst part is that there has been little or no outrage from our political leaders regarding this situation.
With the recent Mumbai attacks and information coming out that the attacks were planned, the terrorists trained and attacks coordinated from Pakistan there seems to be a little momentum to stop giving Pakistan aid money. A few US congressmen have publicly called for stopping US aid to Pakistan. These congressmen include Frank Pallone, Robert Menedez andGary Ackerman. DawnWASHINGTON, Dec 16: US politicians with close links to India have quietly launched a campaign to persuade the incoming Obama administration to stop US aid to Pakistan.
“I do not believe in aiding countries that aid terrorism,” said US Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.
Declaring Pakistan a “failed State” Congressman Frank Pallone, another Democrat, said he opposed giving billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan because he believed it would be used against India.
Gary Ackerman, a pro-Indian Democratic Congressman from New York who has long advocated stopping US military aid to Pakistan, urged Washington to review its policy towards Islamabad after the Mumbai attacks.
“The implication for us is that there are bad guys still out there, and we’re going to have to learn how to deal with them, because our friends are getting sucked into this big-time,” said Mr Ackerman, who chairs the House subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.
Some of these lawmakers may move a resolution in the US Congress after the inauguration of the new president on Jan 20, strongly condemning Mumbai attacks and urging lawmakers to stop military assistance to Pakistan.
A $15 billion, 10-year aid package already proposes to attach US military assistance to Pakistan to its performance in the war against terror, authorising the US administration to stop the aid if it finds that Islamabad was not doing enough to fight terrorism.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Pakistan the "greatest single challenge" to the next United States administration
Finally some common sense. Asia TimesWASHINGTON - Calling Pakistan the "greatest single challenge" to the next United States administration, a bipartisan group of South Asia experts recommends cutting aid to the Pakistani army unless it commits itself to the counter-insurgency struggle against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
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"The Pakistan military should understand that its failure to embrace this fundamental shift in outlook will significantly reduce US military assistance," according to the report by the "Pakistan Policy Working Group" of the government-supported US Institute of Peace (USIP) that was released with little fanfare in Washington late last week.
"While Washington has muted this warning to Pakistan in the past, the next administration must convey this message explicitly and convincingly and then be prepared to follow through," the 13-member group concluded in its 46-page report, entitled "The Next Chapter: The United States and Pakistan". The report, which also endorsed a pending congressional package that would provide Pakistan with US$1.5 billion a year in non-military aid, also insisted that Washington is justified in carrying out unilateral cross-border attacks into Pakistan against terrorist targets until Islamabad shows "that it is ready and willing to act aggressively" against them on its own.
At the same, however, "the US will need to be circumspect on the extent to which it relies on such strikes, recognizing that each strike carries the cost of undermining US long-term objectives of stabilizing Pakistan and preventing radical forces from strengthening in the country," according to the report, which noted that Islamabad halted all fuel shipments to US forces in Afghanistan in the aftermath of a cross-border attack by US special forces in South Waziristan last month.
"Any sustained interruption of supplies would seriously hamper our ability to operate in Afghanistan because 80% of the logistical support for the US military operating in Afghanistan flows through Pakistan," it said, noting that Washington should explore alternative supply routes into Afghanistan in the event that ties with Islamabad worsen.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
U.S. says Funds for F-16s to Pakistan is Tough Sell
Congress will hold a hearing on Tuesday to question the Administrations decision to spend over $200 million to upgrade Pakistan's F-16s. Congress should question the entire aid program, $11 billion, for Pakistan. But I don't think that will happen. Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The Bush administration expects an uphill battle with Congress for permission to use counterterrorism funds to upgrade Pakistan's F-16 fighters, the State Department's top diplomat for South Asia said on Monday.
But even if lawmakers balk, the State Department believes it has the authority to shift counterterrorism aid to the fighter program.[...]
Lawmakers plan to hold a hearing on Tuesday to grill administration officials on the F-16 program with Pakistan and its use in counterterrorism operations against al Qaeda and Taliban extremists in the border areas with Afghanistan.
Analysts say the F-16, built by Lockheed Martin Corp, and other big-ticket military items have in the past been viewed by Islamabad as weapons to help Pakistan counter its rival, India. But Boucher said the F-16s also had been used for counterterrorism missions in hundreds of sorties targeting militants in the tribal areas in recent months.
The F-16 upgrade was badly needed, he said, and would give Pakistan with a more effective counter-terrorism tool, enabling forces to work at night and improve precision-strike capability.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Afghan Intelligence Claims ISI Behind Kidnapping of Japanese Aid Worker
ISI, the taliban....whats the difference? Dawn
KABUL, Sept 3: Afghan intelligence claimed on Wednesday it had arrested a Pakistan national who said he was paid by his country’s spy agency to help abduct a Japanese aid worker who was later shot dead.
Kazuya Ito, 31, was abducted on August 26 in eastern Nangarhar province, about 50km from the Pakistan border. His body was found a day later.
The arrested man was named as Adil Shah and had been studying at a madressah in the NWFP, the National Directorate for Security said in a statement.
He said he was enlisted by ISI and had been working with three Afghans.
“Adil Shah has confessed during the investigation that the abduction and killing of the Japanese engineer was planned and implemented by Pakistan’s ISI and for that a large amount of money was given to the members of the group,” the statement said.
The Taliban had claimed responsibility for kidnapping Ito, who had been working in Afghanistan for five years.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Taliban Threaten Canadian Civilians
The taliban are threatening to kill more Canadian aid workers after killing three, which two of them were from Canada. The taliban want Canadian troops to leave Afghanistan or they will continue to target civilian aid workers.
I got some news for the taliban...Canadian troops aren't goling anywhere. Globe & Mail
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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- The Taliban issued an open letter to Canada yesterday, saying more Canadian blood will be spilled if the country's troops are not pulled out of Afghanistan.
The broad threat, which was aimed at civilian rather than military targets, came just days after four aid workers, including two Canadians, were gunned down in Logar near Kabul.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack yesterday, saying it was an act of revenge.In an interview with The Globe and Mail conducted several hours before the letter was made public, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the killing of the aid workers was retaliation for the U.S. bombing of a wedding party in Jalalabad on July 6.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Britain to Double Aid to Pakistan
This is insane! Since 2002, the US government has given Pakistan $11 billion to help Pakistan fight terrorists. Pakistan has taken no substantial actions against the terrorists freely operating within it's territories. Now Britain is set to increase it's aid to Pakistan to a total of £480m ($956m) over the next three years. BBC
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Britain is substantially increasing its aid to Pakistan and outlining a new strategy for how it is spent.
International Development Minister Douglas Alexander is in Islamabad to announce that aid will double to £480m ($956m) over the next three years.
The move comes amid British security concerns over growing Islamic militancy in the country.The increase will make Pakistan second only to India as the recipient of the UK's largest aid programme worldwide.
The BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says the move reflects at least in part London's concern about the influence of Islamic militancy on Britons of Pakistani origin and its impact on British troops fighting over the border in Afghanistan.
New emphasis
The aid - first agreed in 2006 - will continue to focus on poverty reduction and improving health care.
But for the first time it will be extended to the tribal areas along the border, which serve as a base for militants linked to the Taleban and al-Qaeda.
There is also a new emphasis on education, apparently to try and counter the influence of extremist versions of Islam taught in some Islamic schools, or madrassas.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
What Did $11 Billion of Aid to Pakistan Get Us?
To make a long story short...sh*t.
Since 2002 the US has given almost $11 billion of military and economic aid to Pakistan. Approximately 72% of the total aid was meant for security, counter-narcatics, military, training of frontier corps, coalition support funds, nuclear non-poliferation, and anti-terrorism initiatives.
So let's see what Pakistan has done to meet their end of the bargain.
1. Attacks up 40% in Afghanistan.
This is because of the peace deals Pakistan has signed with the terrorists in Talistan. Therfore, the terrorists are able to focus their enery on attacking NATO forces in Afghanistan.
2. The AQ Khan nuke proliferation ring.
True this ring was up and running before 2002 but the Pakistanis haven't been forthcoming with information. The ring is widely believed to have provided nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Since 2003, the Pakistani government has refused to allow any foreign intelligence agencies from interrogating AQ Khan.
3. Pakistani ISI helps the taliban.
Pakistani intelligence agents and paramilitary forces have helped train taliban terrorists and have given them information of NATO troop movements in Afghanistan. At the beginning of June 11, Pakistani paramilitary soldiers, who were suspicously close to taliban terrorists, were killed by a US air-strike.
4. Pakistan routinely complains of US air-strikes against taliban terrorists in talistan.
5. About $2 billion of aid unaccounted for.
A report by the US Government Accountability Office says that about $2 billion dollars of military aid to Pakistan may not have been spent as intended.
6. NATO equipment shipped through Pakistan is lost, or damaged on route to Afghanistan.
Since April 4 US helicopter engines, worth $13 million, were 'lost' by a Pakistani trucking company. Back in March NATO had expressed interest in shipping equipment and troops through Russia to Afghanistan because Pakistan is unreliable.
Nice huh? We could've spent that money for a program to develop alternative energy sources so we wouldn't have to be dependent on Saudi Arabia (another important 'ally').
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Palestinians to Get More Money
Donors have pledged to give $242 million dollars to the palestinians for security projects. The money will be taken out of the $7.4 billion (thats no typo) pledged in Paris last December.Al Jazeera
Europe and the States keep trying to pay off the palestinians so that they'll stop killing Israelis. It hasn't worked for the last 15 years. From the 1993 Olso accords to 2006, the palestinians have received over $5.5 billion in aid. And during this time the palestinians had gone on killing Israelis.
The $5.5 billion in aid has also done nothing to lift palestinians out of poverty either. Their economy is shrinking at 8% this year, the West Bank and Gaza Strip have a 18.6% unemployment rate and about 46% of the population lives under poverty. So what is another $7.4 billion going to do?International donors at a conference on the Middle East in Berlin have committed $242m for security projects that they hope will help in creating a viable Palestinian state.
The only question is...what rule of law will the palestinians uphold?
The money will be passed to the Palestinian Authority (PA) over the next three years to be spent on security measures such as more police stations and courthouses.
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Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, had urged donor countries at the opening of the conference to allocate uncommitted funds from their existing pledges to support the PA.
She said: "Every link in what we call the chain of security must be intact and unbreakable. To... invest in a future state the Palestinians must have confidence that their police, courts, and penal system are dedicated to upholding the rule of law and respecting human rights."
