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Rice, Blair, Clinton call for investment in Gaza
AFP ^ | September 16, 2005 | AFP

Posted on 09/16/2005 10:27:09 AM PDT by ejdrapes

Rice, Blair, Clinton call for investment in Gaza

NEW YORK (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US president Bill Clinton, met in New York to call for development investments in Gaza.

"There is a lot of poverty and despair but there's new hope and opportunities because of the Israel withdrawal," Rice said during an informal discussion organized by Clinton around the opening of the summit.

"I would urge the people in this room to think early and often on what opportunities there might be for private investments in Gaza, for job creation, for small businesses, because the Palestinian people are quite a remarkable people," she said.

"They're energetic, entrepreneurial," Rice said.

"I would urge people to get involved," Blair said.

"If the people on the Palestinian side can see this happening ... that can give them a sense of hope and confidence that they can do it," he said.

"Gaza is a very poor place, over a million people living in very tight circumstances," said Clinton, who moderated the discussion.

He called investment "an insurance program against terror ... for a fairly modest premium, and we would set up a pool," he said.

"I think it can make a big difference."

Finally, Jordan's King Abdullah II called Gaza's economy "a major challenge."

"The level of poverty is an all-time low," he said.

"To give peace a chance, to give hope, we do need support of the international community, NGOs and private sector.

"If we can do that, then we show the people of Gaza and the people of the region that peace can work," he said.


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1 posted on 09/16/2005 10:27:10 AM PDT by ejdrapes
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fix those greenhouses they tore up?


2 posted on 09/16/2005 10:27:59 AM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: ejdrapes

Is this before or after the palis get through raiding all the other supplies donated for the investment of Gaza?


3 posted on 09/16/2005 10:29:33 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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Buy shares in the coffin business.


4 posted on 09/16/2005 10:30:31 AM PDT by zarf (It's swollen, yes.)
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To: ejdrapes

"The level of poverty is an all-time low," he said.

Wait, is that good or bad?


5 posted on 09/16/2005 10:30:44 AM PDT by frankjr
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To: ejdrapes

Oh, Joy!!!!!!!


6 posted on 09/16/2005 10:30:44 AM PDT by ElCapusto (For ENGLISH, press one.)
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To: George Smiley
because the Palestinian people are quite a remarkable people," she said.

They certainly are, Ms. Rice. They'd like nothing more than to put a Burka on your head and then chop it off. And because you're black, they'll probably rape you first. I find that remarkable.

7 posted on 09/16/2005 10:30:47 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: ejdrapes

Just gag me. Maybe when they learn that Israel is a country and not a "Zionist Entity". Maybe when they stop teaching their children that the highest form of aspiration is to be a shaheed. Maybe when they learn that swarming is not the way to behave when anything happens.

The palesites are not nice people and I am SICK of people kissing up to them.

But maybe we should have a similar investment and rebuilding program for the Palesites like what we're going to have for New Orleans. How many billions? 10? 20? 30? 100?


8 posted on 09/16/2005 10:33:56 AM PDT by johnb838 (Logic and reason are tools of the white oppressor.)
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Well, they've had BILLIONS in western aid, and most of it ended up in Swiss bank accounts.

Lesson--if you don't have an honest government, all the investment and aid in the world won't help you.


9 posted on 09/16/2005 10:33:57 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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For those determined to make it only a little help is necessary.

For those who are not, all the help in the world will not make them sucessful.


10 posted on 09/16/2005 10:36:18 AM PDT by johnb838 (Logic and reason are tools of the white oppressor.)
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To: ejdrapes
OK, you convinced me. I'll provide supplies to the Palestinians' leading export by building a plastic explosives factory.

On second thought, I'll just withdraw a stack of $100 bills from the bank and set them on fire.

11 posted on 09/16/2005 10:39:27 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theatre with the Constitution)
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We have no business supporting a terrorist palestinian start up--here we are in Iraq fighting against terrorism and then we are supposed to invest in a palestinian terrorist area? This does not make sense. I have never understood the need for the palestinian state anyways. Aren't these folks Arabs? Don't they have Arab countries all around them? Then why don't they get out of Israel and go live with their own kind in peace?


12 posted on 09/16/2005 10:42:33 AM PDT by truthingod
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Why not just cut to the chase, and give them arms and amunitions.

That's where the money's going to end up anyways.

13 posted on 09/16/2005 10:45:36 AM PDT by airborne
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Or we could just attack Israel. By nukes would be quicker and maybe less painful.

We can just let in the Arabs for the later synagogue burning extravaganzas.

/S


14 posted on 09/16/2005 10:50:35 AM PDT by Sabramerican (Islam is to Peace as Rape is to Love)
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To: ejdrapes

What? So they can trash whatever is built? No thanks.


15 posted on 09/16/2005 10:54:05 AM PDT by Lorianne
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"They're energetic, entrepreneurial," Rice said

Who ever heard of suicide vests before they were invented by "Palestinians"

How much is Rice investing?

16 posted on 09/16/2005 10:55:22 AM PDT by Sabramerican (Islam is to Peace as Rape is to Love)
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To: Hildy

The only thing worse then the Barbarians themselves is the sub species that supports them in the West.


17 posted on 09/16/2005 10:59:16 AM PDT by Sabramerican (Islam is to Peace as Rape is to Love)
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To: ejdrapes

How about shares in "Big Billy Beelzebubba's Warehouse of Weapons"? I can see the ad copy now: "Just the thing for your favorite jihadi - AK-47s, IEDs, RPGs and C4 - all at great prices in time for Ramadan!"


18 posted on 09/16/2005 11:03:03 AM PDT by Bogolyubski
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"...here we are in Iraq fighting against terrorism and then we are supposed to invest in a palestinian terrorist area?"

Twenty years from now, when the US invades "Palestine" for sponsoring a major terrorist strike against the US, the liberals everywhere will be screaming about how we built them up in the first place. It'll be all Bush's fault, in their eyes, because he brought the Palestinian state into existence. Go ahead and set your timers...

19 posted on 09/16/2005 11:12:43 AM PDT by T.Smith
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After skirmishes and more terrorist successes ruining lives of innocents, in a massive pre-emptive hammering, Israel shall destroy Fort Gaza by Autumn 2006 (US elections)because it is nothing now but a target rich Philistine Dar al-Islam staging area hiding among the willing women and children with Islam's Prime Directive: Slaughter Israelis, the "spawn of pigs and monkeys wherever you find them"...blah, blah, blah. See Mein Koran and other death cult "holy scriptures", aka "battle plans", for the usual details; lallah uuuaaakkkk barf.

Either Qaeda's strikes on us will be the signal for Hamass to attack Israel or Hamass shall signal Qaeda. Either way, Pa-Islam's World War IV is here and now. Why won't sheeple see?

Muslims are believing that we're being punished through Katrina. Through rampant socialism, we shall be.

20 posted on 09/16/2005 11:13:02 AM PDT by SevenDaysInMay (Federal judges and justices serve for periods of good behavior, not life. Article III sec. 1)
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