From The Los Angeles Times
“I urge you, Mr. Secretary, to take all the effective measures required to establish a protective system for Palestine with the aim of ensuring the protection of the Palestinian people from the Israeli aggression, continued occupation and violation of international law, in particular its escalation and bombardments against the civilian population in the Gaza Strip,” Abbas wrote.
Didn't the Palestinian militants start this with their rocket attacks on Israel? They claim civilian casualties, but isn't that the aim of their attacks, to kill Israeli civilians. And don't they launch their rockets from dense civilian areas, to try and hide behind their women and children? I feel that Israel has every right to try and protect their people from these assaults, what do you think?
ReplyDeletePalestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip receive one of the highest levels of aid in the world.[2] Aid has been offered to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and other Palestinian Non-governmental organizations (PNGOs) by the international community, including International Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs).
ReplyDeleteThe entities that provide aid to the Palestinians are categorized into seven groups: the Arab nations, Israel, the European Union, the United States, Japan, international institutions (including agencies of the UN system), European countries, and other nations.[3]
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We have contributed Billions to this welfare state.
Palestine Unemployment Rate at 26.20 Percent
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/palestine/unemployment-rate
Thanks William. They need the money, those missiles are real expensive you know.
ReplyDeleteThe only bigger welfare state in the middle east is Israel. It is # 1 or #@ every year depending on what war we are fighting. I agree that they can't stand by and take these rockets killing innocent civilians. But their hands are not lily white in this situation either. And it is a problem that we can't solve. we will continue to throw money at both combatants hoping against hope that it break the stalemate. All the money does is buy more death and destruction from both sides. Israel has the right to exist but we should not be beholding to that right as we are now.
ReplyDeleteThis opinion piece is from christianpost.com
ReplyDeleteToday, the PLO is headed by Mahmoud Abbas, the loyal lieutenant of Arafat, who died in 2004. For a quarter of a century since 1989, the PLO/PA has gotten diplomatic recognition as a legitimate voice of the Arabs living in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, on the West bank of the River Jordan. Promising to give up terrorism, the PLO has been showered with foreign aid, from the United States, from the European Union, and from the UN. America alone has provided billions in assistance to the PLO/PA.
For what? The PLO continues to teach a genocidal ideology in the schools it controls. It continues to lionize as "martyrs" suicide bombers. Abbas attends ribbon cuttings for public squares and schools named for these mass murderers. In PA-controlled regions, the flaming Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were jubilantly celebrated on 9/11. People fired their AK-47s in the air, danced in the streets, and gave candy to their children when thousands of Americans were murdered in Manhattan and in the Pentagon.
Still, administrations of both parties have treated the PLO and Mahmoud Abbas as if he were a true "peace partner." Most recently, the PLO has bedded down with Hamas. Hamas won the "elections" in Gaza in 2006. Hamas is the Gaza branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is openly and unapologetically committed to the eradication of Israel.
Pretty amazing how the local people allow rockets to be stored and fired from homes and businesses in Gaza and the Israeli's are the bad guys.
ReplyDeleteRiots are also happening agaist Isreal in Paris.
DeleteThis from the gatestoneinstitute.com
Delete"Who has the right to say that France in thirty or forty years will not be a Muslim country? Who has the right in this country to deprive us of it?" — Marwan Muhammed, spokesman, Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), Paris.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls said he was "shocked" by an RTL Radio report which estimated that more than 40,000 cars are burned in France every year.