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| Rice: U.S. eying ways to aid Palestinians |
| 2006-10-05 |
| Rice doesnt get it. Providing more humanitarian relief and freer movement across borders are ways the U.S. may be able to help improve the lives of Palestinians, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that she hopes to revitalize and expand agreements made last year to help people and goods move with fewer restrictions across the borders with Israel and Egypt. Although she said she would like to increase resources for humanitarian relief, Rice made no specific pledge of U.S. aid. $245 million so far this year. "Those are the kinds of on-the-ground things that make it easier for the Palestinian people," Rice said. Make it hard enough so they leave for Egypt or Jordan. Better yet, deport them to Syria. A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because Rice's discussion with Abbas was private, said the United States supports an expansion of Abbas' security force, the presidential guard, as part of a multimillion-dollar plan to strengthen and streamline overlapping Palestinian security forces. More gun and ammo aid. Do try to keep Stingers out of their hands. Abbas is trying to resolve a nine-month political stalemate with Hamas radicals who control part of the Palestinian government. At the same time, the United States has been trying to prompt Arab countries to increase their financial support for the Palestinians. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #12 The old saying is; Killing with kindness. In a complete perversion of reality, attainable only by such twisted individuals as Muslim psychotics, they will use our kindness to kill us. If, faced with endless Islamic atrocities, the republicans cannot grasp what the democrats absolutely refuse to learn, we are all doomed. Doomed, I tells yez. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-05 19:38 |
| #11 "Once you accept the guilt and responsibility for the judged misdeeds of someone else, you are doomed." We agree about that much. It is not exclusively her "fault", but her role of Secretaty of State for the Bush administration is one of the most critical positions in the world. She is carrying out this administration's policies, so it is true that the blame is not exclusively hers. America has lost thousands of civilians and soldiers because of the fever of Muslim sympathy for jihadist murder; our Secretary of State is willing to feed that very same fever in the Palestinian territories. |
| Posted by: Jules 2006-10-05 19:19 |
| #10 because you feel badly about growling stomachs She is not to blame. She, along with millions of other post-boomers were |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-10-05 18:55 |
| #9 I thought she might be a good Sec of State. I was wrong. Aiding those who support terrorists because you feel badly about growling stomachs is not a sign of effectiveness or fairness and certainly points to an absence of ethics. Palestinians must learn the effect of their murderous cause; how disappointing that Sec. Rice is not capable of helping them do it. |
| Posted by: Jules 2006-10-05 18:38 |
| #8 One word, Condi: DON'T |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-05 18:08 |
| #7 Good. They got any cliffs handy in paleo-land? Make the "aid" much easier.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-05 15:23 |
| #6 Condi, Condi. And I was hoping you would run. Sigh. |
| Posted by: anon 2006-10-05 12:04 |
| #5 "Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek..... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-10-05 11:16 |
| #4 In a safety squeeze, the runner at third takes off when the batter makes contact, and hopes that the ball will go to a location from which it will be difficult for the fielding team to make a play at the plate. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2006-10-05 11:12 |
| #3 It is only fifty years and countoing that they have been living of the western tit. In the meantime they have hijacked planes, massacred Lebanese and Jordanians all while enegaing in terrorism against Israel and nurturing dreams of genocide in their children. Last but not least they have threatened us, ie the people who feed them, with suicide bombings during teh cartoon crisis. So this is what Rice should say: "You have one week to refund all the aid money you have recived sincze 1948, adjusted for inflation and interest or we napalm you out of existence. Get that money from your arab brothers or from the Little Riding Hood not my problem. You have one week. That money should be used on people who really desrve it like victims of islamo-facsism in Soudan". |
| Posted by: JFM 2006-10-05 11:05 |
| #2 The Palis want to vote early and often, Condi shouldn't be in such a hot trot to spend more of my money..... |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-10-05 10:45 |
| #1 What's in it for us, Condi? I believe it's called "shit"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-10-05 10:39 |