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2007-12-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Paleos will get poorer if roadblocks remain: World Bank

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Posted by Steve White 2007-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I wonder whatever happened to the billions Arafat socked away. Maybe they should use that up first. Oh wait. I forgot about Suha's shopping spree. Never mind...

Posted by PBMcL 2007-12-14 00:44|| 2007-12-14 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 but shipping goods from the West Bank has become more difficult with the building of Israels separation barrier

Yeah, it's put a real dent in the flow of high explosives.

Posted by gromky 2007-12-14 04:18|| 2007-12-14 04:18|| Front Page Top

#3 lol

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2007-12-14 04:36|| 2007-12-14 04:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Given that they use every penny given in terrorism I think the poorer the better.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-12-14 06:30|| 2007-12-14 06:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Until they are lobbing their starved dead over the wall at Israel, I don't believe they are near bottom. Only when they have lost the strength to put weapons together will I believe they are at the bottom and possibly ready for some real social change. Maybe...

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-12-14 07:31|| 2007-12-14 07:31|| Front Page Top

#6 So.

Posted by 3dc 2007-12-14 08:35|| 2007-12-14 08:35|| Front Page Top

#7 And this effect me how?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-12-14 09:34|| 2007-12-14 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 And this effect me how?

Where do you think the money will come from?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-14 09:38|| 2007-12-14 09:38|| Front Page Top

#9 "Move. Where. The food is!"
-- Sam Kinnison

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-12-14 10:48|| 2007-12-14 10:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Paleos will get poorer if roadblocks remain: World Bank

The one key roadblock to the Paleos is the existence of Israel. Let them eat their hate. See what it has brought them. We'll see how long they last.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-14 11:03|| 2007-12-14 11:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Paleos will get poorer if roadblocks remain: World Bank

Roadblocks will remain if Paleos continue to boom or rocket Israelis.

We hear about financial committments from the Donors and from Israel, and promises of reform from the Paleos, but how about this committment: If the barriers are taken down, then how many Israelis must die before the World Bank AND the Donors will acknowledge, publicly, that the Palestinians are the problem, and not the barriers or Israel? I want a firm number, below which they can say that the Israelis were wrong, but at or above which, they admit that they were wrong and Israel is right. Israel must shut up before that number is reached, and the Donors and the world bank must shut up when that number is reached or exceeded.

I want a number.

I tried this a while back with a lefty, and it involved dead americans and another 9/11. I zinged the idiot while he hemmed, hawed, and refused to give a number. He got tired of me zinging him, gave a number (zero), then realized that he had justified all American actions taken after 9/11, and handed me the logical opportunity to tell him to shut up. He, of course, didn't, but he got REAL tired of me referring to that little exchange until I got tired of kicking an intellectual babe.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-12-14 11:57|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-12-14 11:57|| Front Page Top

#12 The Palestinian population grows by almost 4 percent a year

I thought the Gaza Strip, especially, was losing population as fast as they could leave. If I recall correctly, something like a quarter of Gazans had sought a visa to another country, and almost all the young men wanted to leave... That could put a crimp in both natural economic growth and the willingness of the locals to invest donated monies into new and old businesses.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-14 13:18|| 2007-12-14 13:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Why doesn't Gaza get all it's supplies, food, medicine from their Arab brothers in Egypt? Why doesn't the West Bank go to Jordan for supplies?
Oh, that's right. All the other Arabs hate the Palestinians.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-12-14 13:27|| 2007-12-14 13:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Where do you think the money will come from?

We need a bigger violin for that story.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-12-14 15:42|| 2007-12-14 15:42|| Front Page Top

#15 The World Bank on Thursday endorsed a Palestinian reform plan that requires $5.6 billion in international aid over three years, but warned that the money will not stem economic decline in the West Bank and Gaza unless Israel also eases Palestinian movement and trade.

Well, that ain't gonna happen so, fuck it, don't give em the money. I'll ask I always ask. What's in it for us? Again, I already know. Nothing. What do we lose if we don't give it up? The same thing we get if we do. Dick.
I'd rather spend the money on something useful. Like maybe putting a spittoon in every house in America. It'd probably do about as much good...

Posted by tu3031 2007-12-14 16:44|| 2007-12-14 16:44|| Front Page Top

#16 The world will get poorer if Paleos remain.

That's better.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-12-14 21:16|| 2007-12-14 21:16|| Front Page Top

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