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The price of Aid.
Reader comment on item: The Palestinian Economy in Shambles
Submitted by Charles Smyth (United Kingdom), Dec 27, 2007 at 15:39
The currently stateless and bankrupt Palestinians and their Palestinian Authority have a permanently staffed bureaucracy in excess of three times the size of that required to administrate the entire European Union, in order to mal-administrate the west bank and Gaza at the expense of the US and EU taxpayers.
It just gets better and better. Happy 2008 :-)
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| No creative ideas in islam [120 words] | Phil Greend | Apr 3, 2008 18:18 | 124564 | ||
| a rat hole [117 words] | jennifer solis | Jan 17, 2008 23:47 | 118432 | ||
| Why should they... [56 words] | joe rose | Jan 7, 2008 12:37 | 117657 | ||
 Israel is among the MOST legal country in the world [236 words] | Jake L. | Jan 7, 2008 20:27 | 117657 | ||
| A "Palestinian Economy" may be an "oxymoron" [396 words] | A Bissel | Jan 3, 2008 21:22 | 117481 | ||
| Build a house [100 words] | PDM | Dec 31, 2007 22:06 | 117251 | ||
| What is the purpose of the donations [297 words] | yuval Brandstetter MD | Dec 31, 2007 01:59 | 117191 | ||
| ECONOMIC PROSPERITY CAN BE ACHIEVED ON CONDITION OF PERMANENT PEACE AND STATEHOOD. [121 words] | TTS | Dec 31, 2007 01:47 | 117190 | ||
| wrong on all counts [104 words] | yuval Brandstetter MD | Jan 1, 2008 01:16 | 117190 | ||
| What to Do? [42 words] | Blackspeare | Dec 30, 2007 14:02 | 117134 | ||
| The Fact Of The Matter [90 words] | Jay | Dec 30, 2007 10:31 | 117114 | ||
| poor palestinans and idiot muslims of arabia [61 words] | syed mohammad ali | Dec 29, 2007 03:15 | 117072 | ||
| Pipes`s arguments ... [60 words] | emanuel | Dec 28, 2007 05:43 | 117034 | ||
| Misunderstanding the Power of Money in the Middle East [450 words] | M. Tovey | Dec 27, 2007 19:30 | 117016 | ||
| Exhilaration? [180 words] | Gunther H. Schiff | Dec 27, 2007 17:25 | 117009 | ||
 The price of Aid. [58 words] | Charles Smyth | Dec 27, 2007 15:39 | 117002 | ||
| "Palestinian shamble" [68 words] | steven L | Dec 27, 2007 14:26 | 116991 | ||
| How can the Palestinian economy and culture rise from its own ashes? [278 words] | Charles W. Davis | Dec 27, 2007 14:14 | 116990 | ||
| Too many eggs in one basket [62 words] | David W. Lincoln | Dec 27, 2007 14:14 | 116989 | ||
| Palestinian poverty [154 words] | Janusz Kowalik | Dec 27, 2007 13:15 | 116980 | ||
| Palestinians are not that rational [147 words] | Charles Martel | Dec 27, 2007 13:11 | 116979 | ||
| Helping Palestinians [47 words] | Janusz Kowalik | Dec 27, 2007 13:02 | 116978 | ||
| 5 Days After Reward $7.4 Billion May "Go Up in Smoke." Condi and Blair "Shocked and Dismayed" by Close Associate "Suddenly" Turning Anti-American [371 words] | Sofa Sogood | Dec 27, 2007 12:40 | 116974 | ||
| And Yet, Somehow, The Logical Conclusion Still Doesn't Follow [506 words] | Ron Thompson | Dec 27, 2007 11:12 | 116969 | ||
| I so hope you're right, but I don't think so [1324 words] | Sofa Sogood | Dec 27, 2007 10:41 | 116968 | ||
| Response to your last sentence [267 words] | Ron Thompson | Dec 31, 2007 17:35 | 116968 | ||
| Does Tony Blair have the power to monitor the distribution of the current handouts? [23 words] | J Sheff | Dec 27, 2007 10:34 | 116967 | ||
| You're getting warmer, Dr. Pipes... [123 words] | Raphael Pinto | Dec 27, 2007 10:11 | 116966 | ||
| Almost [94 words] | Blackspeare | Dec 30, 2007 22:21 | 116966 | ||
| I am confused: last week said "Fund the Palestinians--Bad Idea; now it's "a long-term positive development." [25 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Mark Gold | Dec 27, 2007 09:40 | 116965 | ||
| Let it continue in shambles [214 words] | Rick | Dec 27, 2007 09:32 | 116964 | ||
| The Palestinians are no different from the other Arabs [262 words] | Ken Besig | Dec 27, 2007 05:01 | 116961 | ||
| Impressively accurate [278 words] | Ron Thompson | Dec 31, 2007 17:04 | 116961 | ||
| Wasn't that the point? [82 words] | jennifer solis | Jan 18, 2008 00:20 | 116961 |
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