" Can't have them riding up to talks with Condi and our State Department on bomb ladened camels. Can you imagine the mess a work related accident involving a camel would make?"
It would probably look something like this:
Posted on 07/06/2005 4:41:15 PM PDT by SJackson
ARLINGTON, Virginia President George W. Bush's pledge at his meeting in May with the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to provide $50 million in direct support for the Palestinian Authority is symbolically important, but needs to be 100 times larger to have a real impact.
The Palestinians need at least $5 billion as soon as possible from the United States and other nations, mostly for use in the Gaza territory that Israel plans to evacuate later this year. Without such a major infusion of cash - directed toward making Gaza an economic, social, and political success - Israel's withdrawal risks becoming yet another failed attempt at peace, or even the prelude to more violence.
The world is inured to seeing Palestinian refugees packed tightly into camps in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, which for all practical purposes is one large refugee camp. These camps could have been closed decades ago if Arab nations had absorbed some of their residents and provided economic support to others. But oil-producing Arab states used the Palestinian plight to illustrate what they argued was Israeli heartlessness and Western double standards. Palestinian leaders like the late Yasser Arafat used the camps to cultivate a psychology of victimhood.
Israeli extremists used the camps' existence to back up their claim that Palestinians could not possibly govern themselves. And the ultimate irony came in 1979 when Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan of Israel secretly offered to give Gaza back to Egypt. President Anwar Sadat of Egypt uttered a crisp "no thanks."
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Can't have them riding up to talks with Condi and our State Department on bomb ladened camels.
Can you imagine the mess a work related accident involving a camel would make?
HOT lead.
If they want the Pali monsters to have any money, let it come from them.
I protest every damn dime of my tax money that has been sent to them or that will be sent to them.
"But oil-producing Arab states used the Palestinian plight to illustrate what they argued was Israeli heartlessness and Western double standards."
What are these oil-rich Arab assholes contributing other than weapons to kill and destroy Isrealis and useless rhetoric?
Bush'll give it to 'em. His buddy Bono wil tell him to.
LMAO. You guys are good.
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