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2006-01-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2006-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What, being murderous asshats is no longer the lucrative career it once was?

I wonder how much money has been spent per capita on the Paleos over the last couple of decades. I bet it would be enough to make them individually quite wealthy if it all had not been squandered on jew-killing and corruption.

Posted by SteveS 2006-01-03 00:45|| 2006-01-03 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 I did a quick calculation based the amount they needed to cover their monthly shortfall and I reckon they will have to cut between 25,00 and 50,000 from the payroll if they can't find extra funds. Mind you, you can probably cut those numbers in half due to the amounts that are just siphoned off into foreign bank accounts.

Still even 10,000 extra unemployed gunnies will significantly accelerate the slide into chaos.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-01-03 01:02|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-03 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 The PA is in real trouble as the Gulf states are notorious for promising the Palestinian's money and not delivering it.

Posted by bernardz 2006-01-03 05:07|| 2006-01-03 05:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The Paleos are about to discover no one cares anymore. They haven't for sometime. I guess they could hit Iran up for the money but that would really cause problems. The Arab pals they had don't give a damn and never did.

Posted by Mahou Sensei Negi-bozu 2006-01-03 05:41|| 2006-01-03 05:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps the traditional donors would feel more pressure if the PA could show some enthusiasm for -- and perhaps even success at -- finding the $billion-plus their now-stable, fearless leader Arafat had squirreled away. Silly, I know, but some people are like that.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-03 07:58|| 2006-01-03 07:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Now they are to find out they were just a means to an end. The other Arab and Muslim countries did'nt really want to help them anyway. Now that they are not sponsoring bombers as much, they are not wanted.

Posted by plainslow 2006-01-03 08:12|| 2006-01-03 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Cue the nanoaccordions. Maybe George Soros can help.

Posted by RWV 2006-01-03 08:28|| 2006-01-03 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 "No, I'm not home. Lose my number, Mahmoud"

Posted by Suha Arafat">Suha Arafat 2006-01-03 08:46|| 2006-01-03 08:46|| Front Page Top

#9 In retrospect the praise that Abbas received from Sec Rice a few months ago might have been the straw that prevents Iran and a few others from funding the PA.

That would be Kewl.

Posted by mhw 2006-01-03 09:01|| 2006-01-03 09:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Why should anybody care?
After all ... are they not scheduled for a rendezvous with some asteriods later in the year?

Posted by 3dc 2006-01-03 09:40|| 2006-01-03 09:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Does this mean they will have to cut back funding on Jihadist Operations?

Posted by Cyber Sarge">Cyber Sarge 2006-01-03 10:24|| 2006-01-03 10:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Cyber Sarge---Jihadi operations come under a different account. Special projects come under grant funds and are administered by Iran under the umbrellas of Hamas and Hizb'Allah.

Even the Saudis et al see the PA as losers. They will not be throwing good money down a rathole. Probably kept funds coming to the Arafish while he was swimming to avoid saving face. Once the Arafish went belly up, and saw the same olde thing, everyone except the EUniks pulled the plug.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-01-03 10:48|| 2006-01-03 10:48|| Front Page Top

#13 "We are in desperate need of Arab aid," he said.

Arab aid, shit! They'll take it from anybody stupid enough to give it up. They're the crackwhores of the international community.

Posted by tu3031 2006-01-03 11:30|| 2006-01-03 11:30|| Front Page Top

#14 They'd rather spend jizya than zakat...more fun to use dhimmidollars!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-01-03 11:34|| 2006-01-03 11:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Yawn ... So, donor fatigue finally setting in with a vengeance, eh? All those houses that were built only to get bulldozed when they were allowed to be used as sniper nests. Go figure. Donate aid? Sorry, I've got something vastly more important on my agenda, like plucking nosehairs.

"We are in desperate need of Arab aid," he said.

When I run that through my nifty Captain Midnight Decoder Ringâ¢ what I get is:

"We need lots of untraced cash (Arab Aid) to finance more Jew killing."

Posted by Zenster 2006-01-03 11:45|| 2006-01-03 11:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Actually, I find this interesting.

I'd like to actually see, one day, real improvement in the lot of the Palestinians; and I'd like to see the rest of the Arab world, esp. the really rich ones, donate money to building houses in the West Bank, and for more than just the surviving parents of suicide bombers. For the _ordinary_ people.

I'd like to see them, for once, actually treat the Palestinians as people instead of as an excuse for prolonging the conflict, which naturally the Palestinians keep paying for...

Posted by Phil 2006-01-03 11:50|| 2006-01-03 11:50|| Front Page Top

#17 ahhh Phil. That's such a nice dream. Whoa! Look at the clock! Shouldn't you be up by now? :-)

Posted by 2b 2006-01-03 12:11|| 2006-01-03 12:11|| Front Page Top

#18 They just hit up the Magic Kingdom for a butt-load of petrodollars. Gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling to know that the PA won't be impacted by that rocket and mortar shortage after all, huh?

Thanks to our Wahabbi friends.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-01-03 12:14|| 2006-01-03 12:14|| Front Page Top

#19 What no funds for 250$ a month to familier of suicide bombers?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-01-03 14:19|| 2006-01-03 14:19|| Front Page Top

#20 I think many "Arab" doners have realized that a Palestinian state would be a continuous drain on their budgets. Gaza and the West Bank have no industry, have no natural resources to speak of, and have little productive farmland or other export-income-generating activities. There's not much of an internal tax base, either. Gaza doesn't have a decent port, and the only land border the West Bank can use for export is through Jordan. Even if there were a stable government, the Paleo-stains would still need barrels of money just to continue to exist and provide minimum basic services. I think the Saudis and most of the rest of the Islamic world sees Palestine as a failure waiting to happen, and have decided to cut their losses. So sorry, no money today...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-01-03 15:05|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-03 15:05|| Front Page Top

#21 Gaza and the West Bank are in exactly the same situation that Israel was when the Jews moved in. And, to put things on an even more level footing, the first Israeli governments were filled with Jewish mobsters. And yet, in short order, the Jews were able to defend themselves against an Arab assault; and from that point on, they turned their country into a modern state.

So, what is keeping the Paleos down? Singularly, they have embraced hate and violence instead of working to improve their lot. Tried to steal what belonged to others rather than make wealth for themselves. Embracing propaganda instead of education. Weaponry instead of industry. Largesse instead of self-sufficiency. Dictatorship instead of democracy. Corruption instead of cooperation.

Now they must suffer the consequences of these decisions.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-03 17:58|| 2006-01-03 17:58|| Front Page Top

#22 Anonymoose, I'd like you to expand on that first paragraph. "the same situation"..."the first Israeli governments filled with Jewish mobsters"... Huh?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-03 20:56|| 2006-01-03 20:56|| Front Page Top

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