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alestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Sunday criticized Arab states for evading their financial commitments to the PA. Arab countries have yet to follow through on a pledge in March to provide a financial safety net of $100 million monthly to the PA to mitigate Israeli sanctions, which were imposed in November.
Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by JohnWoodland
They continually buy into their "allies" b.s. and refuse to wake up to their being played for fools. Should we pity a people who remains willfully ignorant? Should we pity these people who refuse to wakeup from their grand self delusion that they mean anything to the arab world? All they need to do is take a good look around and see that no other countries even want them, considering them degenerates while they pledge to send money and weapons, instead of sending them food and medical supplies. This has nothing to do with the palestinians at all, but rather maintaining a proxy war on Israel by having religious zealots being brainwashed for the cause of:
A god that is nothing but a statue made by the hands of some backwards desert man thousands of years ago.edit on 23-12-2012 by lonewolf19792000 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by December21st2012
I care about them. And the Isrealis. I care about everyone. No one should have to suffer on this planet.
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip receive one of the highest levels of aid in the world
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).
The entities that provide aid to the Palestinians are categorized into seven groups: the Arab nations, the European Union, the United States, Japan, international institutions (including agencies of the UN system), European countries, and other nations
The reality is the Palestininans were forced by gunpoint to give up their nation.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by OrionsWitness
The reality is the Palestininans were forced by gunpoint to give up their nation.
What nation? The Ottoman turks controlled the territory called "Palestine" by the later British Mandate. No Arab state ever existed in that region. One Arab "nation" spanned from the gulf to the Atlantic. Muslims, unlike Europeans, have always thought in terms of religion, not "ethnicity" (and the Palestinians certainly don't qualify as an ethnicity, as the Jews would, or the Portuguese, for example). Therefore, the "Umma" corresponded to the modern notion of "nation-state". The Umma, could be thought of from the Sunni or Shia perspective. Usually, it has been the Sunni vantage point that has dominated. In either case, it's religion, and not ethnicity, which governs politics.
Palestine was created after 1948, as any honest researcher knows. It was built upon political myths, as the Palestinian politician Musa Alami exhorted hid fellow Arabs "the people are in great need of a Myth", the myth being the notion of a Palestinian people. The central theme of the myth being the "nakba", the disaster of losing their home "palestine". Ignored is the context of what Palestine represented to these Arabs prior to 1948. In the post '48 mythos, a Palestinian national consciousness is said to have existed. In fact, no such thing existed. It's an absurd claim without historical fact to back it up, belied by the cultural dynamics and political ramifications of Islam.