House of Hussein spares no $PENDING when it comes to Israel's Enemies in GAZA

Mannie, I hope you followed your earlier inclination to go back to bed and pull the covers over your head -- because if you didn't then, you will now.  Got word of this from a friend in Istanbul, believe it or not.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/06/143317.htm

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced today that the United States will be making an additional contribution of $60.3 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to support UNRWA’s core budget and special projects in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.

 

The $60.3 million contribution will provide critical services, including health, to 4.7 million Palestinian refugees. Of this contribution, $5.7 million will support nine special projects, including reconstruction and rehabilitation of schools in Jordan, Syria, and the West Bank, an afterschool program for refugee children in Lebanon, and a referral system to help refugees facing gender-based violence.

 

UNRWA currently faces a shortfall of $161 million, including $91 million for core expenses such as salaries for teachers educating nearly 500,000 Palestinian refugee children across the region.

 

With this contribution,

the U.S. will have provided

more than $225 million to UNRWA in 2010

including

$120 million to its General Fund,

$75 million to its West Bank/Gaza emergency programs,

$20 million to emergency programs in Lebanon, and

$10 million for the construction of five new schools in Gaza.

The U.S. commitment to the welfare of the Palestinian people was further underscored by the President’s June 9 announcement that the United States will move forward with $400 million for .... West Bank and Gaza. As UNRWA’s largest bilateral donor, the U.S. recognizes the critical role UNRWA plays in assisting Palestinian refugees and maintaining regional stability and calls upon other donors to enhance their support for UNRWA.

Comments

[Edgar Davidson]

Indeed, charitable funding for Palestinians (most of which ultimately is paid for by taxpayers in the US and Western Europe and not by oil-rich Arab nations) is, by a huge margin, pro-rata more than is given in aid to any other nation or people in the world. No people in the history of the world have been so lavishly showered with charity as the Palestinians. I've tackled this in depth: http://edgar1981.blogspot.com/2010/06/funding-poor-palestinians.html

[Mannie Sherberg]

A classic case of giving our enemies the rope with which to hang us. This would be insane even if we -- the United States - were flush with money. But we are a nation teetering on the edge of bankruptcy -- so this is much worse than insane. It is criminal. History will not forgive us.