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Only 2% Of $5.4 Billion Pledged For Gaza Actually Delivered
2014-12-20
Especially for JFM.
[Ynet] Two months after donors pledged $5.4 billion to help rebuild Gazoo after the war between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Paleostinian, UN and other officials say barely 2 percent of the money has been transferred.
No wonder the UN is demanding more pledges.
Te conference in Cairo had been hailed as a success, with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
 promising $1 billion, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 $500 million and the United States and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 a combined $780 million in various forms of assistance.

Half was expected to go to rebuilding houses and infrastructure in Gazoo destroyed during seven weeks of fighting, and the rest to support the Paleostinian budget.

But of the total, only $100 million or so has been received, according to U.N. and other officials.
How odd. Saudi Arabia has been delivering money to Egypt with alacrity -- why the difference?
While the EU and the United States have accelerated some funding that was already in the pipeline, very few new pledges have come to fruition.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  This is one of those cases of the Left in which 'feelings' mean more than truth I can find acceptable in execution.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2014-12-20 20:43  

#5  That boom in oil affordability just gets better.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-12-20 13:36  

#4  "call now and we'll double our pledge!*"

*just pay separate shipping and handling and kickbacks and....
Posted by: Frank G   2014-12-20 12:16  

#3  Infrastructure, yeah right, I guess that's what tunnels would fall under.

Pappy, if they got one third that would be an improvement over most charities and their 90% overhead.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-12-20 11:57  

#2  We eliminate the middleman and pass the savings on to us you!
Posted by: tu3031   2014-12-20 11:36  

#1  only $100 million or so has been received

Probably closer to 300 million - but transfer fees, shipping and handling...
Posted by: Pappy   2014-12-20 08:58