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US puts up $20 million for Gaza relief
Associated Press ^ | January 30, 2009 | MATTHEW LEE

Posted on 01/30/2009 10:30:39 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Friday made an emergency contribution of more than $20 million for urgent relief efforts in the Gaza Strip, a day after the United Nations launched a flash appeal for $613 million to help Palestinians recover from Israel's three-week military operation there.

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1 posted on 01/30/2009 10:30:39 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Friggin terrorist bailout. Thanks mr. president.


2 posted on 01/30/2009 10:33:28 AM PST by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Not surprising that the money is going to the wrong side—the instigators—of this war.


3 posted on 01/30/2009 10:33:42 AM PST by basil ( It's time to eliminate all "Gun Free Zones")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hell yea, just give it away.


4 posted on 01/30/2009 10:37:04 AM PST by JamesA (He who hesitates is lost.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Couldn't we spend it on bombs instead?

ML/NJ

5 posted on 01/30/2009 10:37:13 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

> Couldn’t we spend it on bombs instead?

Well, the Gazans will spend it on bombs.


6 posted on 01/30/2009 10:38:11 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is there nothing this Communists leader won’t do?


7 posted on 01/30/2009 10:38:44 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: basil

So, I wonder if those in our Jewish community are having buys remorse.


8 posted on 01/30/2009 10:38:51 AM PST by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: Gator113
So, I wonder if those in our Jewish community are having buys remorse.

Don't believe American Jews care one way or another.

9 posted on 01/30/2009 10:40:50 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
help Palestinians recover from Israel's three-week military operation there...

and help the pali's get ready for the next one...

10 posted on 01/30/2009 10:41:14 AM PST by C210N (The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
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To: C210N

Zero just removed all doubt whether he was a terrorist sympathizer.


11 posted on 01/30/2009 10:42:17 AM PST by bicyclerepair (Thank you Mr. Robinson for FR. from: Ft. Lauderdale Florida)
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To: Westbrook
Well, the Gazans will spend it on bombs.

I think you know that that is not what I had in mind.

ML/NJ

12 posted on 01/30/2009 10:50:22 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: bicyclerepair

He owes the Pals for their campaign contributions. Clearly, the Pals knew they could count on O; nobody should be surprised here.


13 posted on 01/30/2009 10:56:34 AM PST by Zeddicus
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Thatsa lotta 7.62x39.


14 posted on 01/30/2009 11:08:38 AM PST by texmexis best (uency)
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To: ml/nj

> I think you know that that is not what I had in mind.

Oh, I do.

I just wanted to point out the naiveté, or stupidity, or mendacity of our new fearless leader.

Not one penny of US taxpayer money should go into that festering cesspool, except to utterly and humiliatingly crush the savage rabble that inhabit and rule it.


15 posted on 01/30/2009 11:10:25 AM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Gee!I wonder how many AK-47’s,RPG’s and blocks of Semtex you can buy with 20,000.000 dollars.


16 posted on 01/30/2009 11:15:16 AM PST by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Nutty Globalism strikes again!

Giving money to people who want to kill us and our allies...real smart Obama


17 posted on 01/30/2009 11:17:10 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Open Borders should be only for bookstores, not the third world hellhole known as Mexico)
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To: puppypusher

“Gee!I wonder how many AK-47’s,RPG’s and blocks of Semtex you can buy with 20,000.000 dollars.”
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Yep.


18 posted on 01/30/2009 11:21:22 AM PST by cowdog77 ("Are there any men left in Washington, or are they all cowards!?-Ahmad Shah Massoud")
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