Comments on: World Donors Pledge $7.4B For Palestine
Total Exceeds Amount Expected To Help Struggling State
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- The money recently donated to the Palestinians is nothing compared to the $21 billion restitution money Israel is asking the US pay Palestinian refugees for what Israel has done to them.
If I''m not mistaken the US has already agreed to pay the $21 billion once an agreement is reached.
I understand Israelis now want the US to subsidize trips to Israel so Americans can go there and for a week or so wipe the butts of Israelis after taking a dump.
I''m sure a lot of Americans would be more than happy to oblige. - Reply to this comment
- Homes in illegal Israeli settlements for sale at London expo
Haroon Siddique
Friday November 16, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Israeli companies are using UK property shows to sell housing in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Guardian Unlimited can reveal.
At the Israel Property Exhibition at Brent town hall, North London last Sunday, one company, Anglo-Saxon Real Estate, was offering for sale properties in Maale Adumim and Maccabim. Both West Bank settlements lie on the Palestinian side of the so-called green line, the pre-1967 boundary and often cited as the border between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
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- ICRC calls for immediate resumption of family visits for Gaza residents to Israeli prisons ;
Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urges the Israeli authorities to authorise the prompt resumption of visits for families from Gaza with their relatives detained in Israeli prisons.
The visits have been suspended since 6 June 2007, following a decision by the Israeli authorities.
"It is impossible to understand that such a decision is taken solely on security grounds. Family visits to Israeli prisons have been organised for decades. There is no reason for this six-month suspension of family visits for Gaza residents," says Christoph Harnisch, the ICRC''s Head of Delegation in Tel Aviv.
According to international humanitarian law, detainees have the right to maintain family links, including visits from close relatives.
The ICRC recently distributed warm clothing to the concerned detainees.
With the exception of one prison, Palestinians are detained in prisons located inside Israel. An average of 20,000 family members travel monthly to prisons inside Israel.
In November, the ICRC conducted 32 visits to 15 Israeli places of detention, including interrogation centres, provisional detention centres, police stations and prisons. There are currently over 11,000 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons.
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- israel''s legacy in southern Lebanon:
Last November many of your missions attended a briefing here by the ICRC''s Director for International Law and Cooperation within the Movement, Mr Philip Spoerri. At that time the international community was beginning to understand the severe and widespread impact on civilians of cluster munitions used in the conflict in southern Lebanon a few months earlier. This conflict of only one month left a land area estimated at 37 million square metres contaminated with close to one million unexploded submunitions. These have caused 206 civilian casualties and 42 casualties among clearance personnel since the fighting stopped. The conflict once again demonstrated how easy it is to use these weapons in massive numbers and how even wars of a short duration can leave a tragic humanitarian legacy.
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- The Occupied Palestinian Territories: Dignity Denied:
The ICRC has released a new report, Dignity Denied, focusing on the worsening humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. Ahead of a conference of major donors in Paris next week, the organization is calling for immediate political action to ease the burden on the Palestinian population, which is facing severe hardship exacerbated by strict restrictions on the movement of goods and people.
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- Minister Bernard Kouchner could be the Beast. I see the four horsemen saddling-up.
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- There''''s no sense rubbing our nose in it.
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YOU ARE SUCH A EURP WINNIE..the reason WHY is because most of the money or if not ALL of the money came from europe. CBS printed the cost in dollars - Reply to this comment
- Is this good or bad. The Palestinians may be getting close to realizing that peace is better than blood feuds.
I think this $7B will prolong the strife. - Reply to this comment
- Great... now they can buy Chinese/Iranian/Russian/Syrian weapons to shoot back at Israelis and America when WWIII breaks out in the Middle East in the next 10 years.
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- ***, CBS! Just switch to publishing the news in Euros.
All the "$7.4 billion (euro5.1 billion)" is just a waste of space, and with bill for the leadership and the economic policies of the last 27 years now coming due these constant comparisons can only get more embarrassing.
There''s no sense rubbing our nose in it. - Reply to this comment
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