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The Palestinian Donor State
Commentary Magazine ^ | July 31st, 2009 | Rick Richman

Posted on 07/31/2009 7:53:10 AM PDT by Jbny

On the afternoon of July 24, Hillary Clinton arrived back in Washington on a flight from Asia, got off the plane, and headed straight to the State Department, where reporters were assembled to join her in a teleconference with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who was in Ramallah. It was late Friday evening Ramallah time.

The teleconference was called to commemorate the transfer of $200 million to the Palestinian Authority — the largest single transfer in the P.A.’s history, a part of the $900 million pledge the Obama administration has made for 2009 (more than 62 percent higher than the $555 million the Bush administration pledged for 2008).

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foreignaid; israel; obama; palestinians

1 posted on 07/31/2009 7:53:11 AM PDT by Jbny
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2 posted on 07/31/2009 8:16:12 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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3 posted on 07/31/2009 9:54:22 AM PDT by SJackson (the number-one job facing the middle class...a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S. Jobs)
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Hillary Clinton... in a teleconference with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad... to commemorate the transfer of $200 million to the Palestinian Authority -- the largest single transfer in the P.A.'s history, a part of the $900 million pledge the Obama administration has made for 2009...
Do Swiss banks even *have* direct deposit?
4 posted on 07/31/2009 7:11:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Why not give them Washington, DC? Obama’d feel right at home in that neighborhood, and he could let them have the West Bank of the Potomac. Nobody living there except a bunch of ignorant, bitter white people clinging to guns and religion and fear of people different from them. He could even call them “settlers” and not let them build anymore houses.


5 posted on 08/01/2009 1:13:34 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (www.publishedauthors.net/benmaxwell/index.html. Donate to members.tripod.com/tva_israel/HOME.HTM)
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