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Flying Dutchman wrote:According to an UNRWA 2007 report 41% of Gaza women suffer from obesitas and a third of Gaza men suffer from obesitas.

desertdudeshj wrote:Death Row inmates in the US have better health care than most of the American public and all of the third world.

desertdudeshj wrote:You can be live rent free and be fed three squares for life right here in Dubai Prisons, And your point is ?

desertdudeshj wrote:You seriously cannot be such a huge fanboi that you don't see the stupidity of your own posts ?

Flying Dutchman wrote:Gaza has the 6th highest growth rate in the world...

shafique wrote:Don't underestimate the stupidity of the fanbois!

shafique wrote:The first comment (i.e. the latest comment) currently is
Cheers,
Shafique

The Israel Project (TIP), an American Hasbara outfit, commissioned Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to examine the effectiveness of Israel’s public diplomacy in the US on the Flotilla debacle. TIP gave the memo to the Prime Minister’s Office, where someone promptly leaked it to Chico Menashe, Channel Ten TV News diplomatic affairs correspondent.
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Luntz says Israel must immediately stop using the argument that there is no hunger and no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. He says this fatally destroys Israel’s credibility in light of the images on the television screens. Israel must admit that there is a problem, he says, to gain the listeners’ sympathy

Mohammed al-Amin spends his days doing little more than playing billiards and smoking cigarettes in this sprawling Palestinian refugee camp, where gunmen roam narrow alleyways dotted with tin-roofed, cement-block homes.

The 25-year-old studied dental lab technology but works at a small, grubby coffee shop in the camp, making $100 a month. He dreams of working with a respected doctor in Lebanese society and being welcomed like any other foreigner, without being looked down on.

"Sometimes I feel like a pressurized bottle that's about to explode," said al-Amin, who was born in Ein el-Hilweh years after his family fled what is now Israel. "Why should three quarters of the Palestinian people here be selling coffee on the street?"

The approximately 400,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, many of them born here, are barred by law from any but the most menial professions and are denied many basic rights.

Now parliament is debating a new law that would allow Palestinians to work in any profession and own property, as well as give them social security benefits. The bill, due for a vote on Aug. 17, is the most serious effort yet by Lebanon to transform its policies toward the refugees.

But by every possible indicator Gazans are better of than the Palestinians in Lebanese refugee camps

in comparison with other [branches of UNRWA] we have in Lebanon the highest number of what we call “special-hardship cases”, which is “the poor of the poor”. We have 50,000 people in this situation, 20 to 30 percent of the [Palestinian] population, who live in deplorable poverty conditions. This is the highest percentage compared to all other [areas].

They eat ice cream, they swim, they play music. Paradise! And look at this: “Special permission was granted to Gaza footballers to train in Judea and Samaria and compete in international matches abroad.”

We even let their soccer team out to play. It took special permission, but hey, for those guys and those fans, if that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes.

Flying Dutchman wrote:A new Algerian ship in sailing towards Gaza. The millions of homeless in Pakistan and sick hungry children will probably also ask "What about us"? Good thing for those children that Western countries, the US first, are donating while left alone and almost forgotten by their neighbors.

Saudi Arabia has donated a further 80 million dollars to flood-hit Pakistan boosting a national campaign collection to 400 million riyals (106.6 million dollars), local press said on Thursday.

King Abdullah has ordered the allocation of 300 million riyals “on behalf of the Saudi people,” Saudi Gazette daily reported quoting an official statement.
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The kingdom has so far sent 21 planeloads of aid to Pakistan.

Meanwhile, the Saudi ambassador to Islamabad Abdul Aziz Alghadir has said the Saudi Development Bank has allocated 20 million dollars in aid for flood victims, Saudi Gazette reported.

Pakistan floods: Saudi Arabia pledges $100m
Oil-rich country overtakes US as main aid donor as second wave of flooding hits new areas in southern provinces

The moral appears to be that the Arabs are worse at PR than other donor countries, but not lacking in generosity (so, yet another loon myth blown out of the water,).

The moral appears to be that the Arabs are worse at PR than other donor countries, but not lacking in generosity (so, yet another loon myth blown out of the water,).

Saudi raises $20.5 million in Pakistan flood aid campaign
August 17, 2010

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has raised 20.5 million dollars in aid on the first day of a national campaign for flood-striken Pakistan, state news agency SPA said on Tuesday.

King Abdullah kicked off the campaign by donating 20 million riyals ($5.33 million), and Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz offered 10 million riyals, press reports said.

Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, gave five million riyals to the cause, according to the reports.

The oil-rich kingdom has already sent 16 planeloads of relief supply to Pakistan, Arab News daily said, adding that it had pledged to provide 100 million dollars in aid.

The United Nations warned on Tuesday of a "second wave of death" in Pakistan while aid agencies struggled to raise money to help the 20 million people hit by the nation's worst-ever natural disaster.

Fresh rains have threatened further anguish for the millions affected by three weeks of flooding that has engulfed about one quarter of the country, including its rich agricultural heartland.
Agence France-Presse