5,000 unemployed stage protest in Gaza

[barb162]

5,000 unemployed stage protest in Gaza

By Amira Hass and Aluf Benn

Angry crowd accuses Plaestinian (sic) Authority of misappropriating donations

Thousands of Palestinians who worked in Israel and have been unemployed for the past 22 months because of the closure of the Gaza Strip, demonstrated yesterday in Gaza city, demanding that the Palestinian Authority provide them with either regular unemployment payments or alternative work.

Thousands of people were bused into Gaza early yesterday morning, from Rafah and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, before the IDF closed off the Gush Katif crossing to Palestinians.

The demonstrators, numbering around 5,000, gathered outside the Palestinian National Council building in the center of the city, and marched on the empty and partly bombed-out headquarters of PA chairman Yasser Arafat, located in the beach front. The protesters were carrying signs reading "Work not charity" and "Lift the closure on Gaza." Some waved stale pita bread, while other banged on metal pot lids.

They even dared to chant direct accusations of theft of donations against the Palestinian Authority. "Where are the millions?" they demanded, in an eerie echo of a chant from the first intifada, which called on millions of people across the Arab world to help the Palestinian cause.


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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=182161&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y


where's the millions( where's the beef), where did ALL that aid money go already?

[idontwantaname]

1. do you know how many people are in gaza? n/t.

[barb162]

2. yeah

[idontwantaname]

3. how many people? n/t.

[Scurrilous]

6. 1,428,757 n/t

[tatertop]

4. take that money going to isreal and give Palestine half

That would be a damn good start.
They need and deserve our money.

[idontwantaname]

5. half of 3,000,000,000... yikes! n/t.

[Coastie for Truth]

7. The part for stem cell assisted pancreatic transplant research

or the part for pediatric leukemia research or the part for Parkinsons research or for the part for pharmacogenomic chemotherapy research or the part for spinal cord trauma research?

I would say let Prince Bandar and Prince Talal take the $67/bbl they are getting for oil, and give just a tiny scintilla of the "monopoly rents" to the Palestinians (like they should have been doing since 1948).

I just paid $2.89/gallon to fill up my car this AM.

[idontwantaname]

8. vague #s

but doesnt the US get aprox 1/3 of its oil from venezuela, 1/3 domestically and 1/3 from OPEC?

[Coastie for Truth]

12. Do your own arithmetic

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbbl_m.htm

and remember - petroleum in the long range is "fungible"

[idontwantaname]

14. Venezuela out produces Saudi Arabia and is a member of OPEC!

but Mexico and Canada take the cake. wheres the US?

[Coastie for Truth]

15. You are missing the forest for the trees

Chavez is spending his oil revenues for social good - hospitals, schools, infrastructure. Chavez has a peoples' regime.

As to Saudi Arabia, take Prince Talal's Kingdom Holdings as a more progessive, socially responsible investment vehicle - he actually invests in a Palestinian entrepreneurial infrastructure. But even his portfolio is heavily weighted with resorts and casinos rather then what Kerry advisor Professor Richard L. Forida calls "multipliers." And most of the House of Saud investments don't benefit the people. Resorts and race horses! If the House of Saud would pump investment into "people" and "infrastructure" - like Hugo Chavez ..... The whole region would be better off.

[idontwantaname]

16. i agreee.

the same could be said for the US. instead of war we could... well... you know the story.

[Violet_Crumble]

11. So, how much US aid is used for medical research?

And if any is used for it, why isn't Israel capable of funding its own medical research like other countries do?

btw, the part that should go is that large part that is called military aid. Or is aid to the military more important to some than medical research?

Violet...

[Coastie for Truth]

13. You won't believe me anyway

Start here - and look it up yerself

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi and http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

You asked

"And if any is used for it, why isn't Israel capable of funding its own medical research like other countries do?"

- They do - they also do a lot of sponsored and contract research for multinationals and for foreign institutions - it is because they have an infrastructure for medical research (people, educational, institutional).

[Violet_Crumble]

17. Not if you don't have facts to back up yr claim...

Which you don't. Giving me a link to Pub Med is like someone asking why our local govt won't duplicate a section of road notorious for bottlenecks and being given a link to a tourism site and being told to look it up themselves. Totally pointless, as a tourism site isn't going to deal with issues like funding of capital projects...

So what if Israel has an infrastructure for medical research? So do we, yet we don't need US funding to carry it out...

Violet...

[barb162]

9. Get the $700,000,000 back that was stolen or squandered

It'll go a really long way; I hope they catch these criminals and get that money for the poor Palestinians who need it

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/02/06/700m_reported_missing_from_palestinian_coffers/

$700m reported missing from Palestinian coffers
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters | February 6, 2006

snip''The amount of money that was squandered and stolen is more than $700 million," Moghani told reporters. ''Some of these millions were transferred into personal accounts here and abroad."snip

[pelsar]

10. oh no......responsability?

....several Palestinian officials have complained that it is they who are now coming under attack, and not the occupation