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Israel/Palestine

shira

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4. Nonsense from the UN assuming Palestinian leadership is interested in economy....

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 14, 2016, 06:14 AM

Sep 2016

...more than fighting Israel and squandering billions in aid on their war machine, tunnels, corruption, etc.

Not a word in this UN document about any of that.

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Just think how many public school music programs that wold pay for. pangaia Sep 2016 #1

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It's still less than the cost of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinians. Little Tich Sep 2016 #3

Nonsense from the UN assuming Palestinian leadership is interested in economy.... shira Sep 2016 #4

The UNCTAD report reads like a report from a disaster area in a third world country. Little Tich Sep 2016 #5

And not a word on the Palestinian war machine & corruption leading to billions.... shira Sep 2016 #6

Do you have any figures to go with that accusation? n/t Little Tich Sep 2016 #7

Sure, here's a good article from 2014. One of many... shira Sep 2016 #8

I suppose that the assertions of a neocon think-tank is all the proof you need. Little Tich Sep 2016 #9

It's well known hundreds of millions of USD go to pay terrorist families... shira Sep 2016 #10

So why do you think that none of these reports don't mention these supposed hundreds of millions of Little Tich Sep 2016 #11

Answered in #8 above. Do you not think hundreds of millions USD to terrorist families.... shira Sep 2016 #12