$55 million raised in telethon by Saudi Arabians for Palestinians

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Lucky

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Pretty impressive when you realize:


Saudi arabia has 22 million people-$55 million raised in a single telethon
USA has 280 million people,- $700 million raised by individuals in more than 7 months

Especially when the issue doesnt direcly affect them.
 
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b0mbrman

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<< No, just watching it on CNN. I'll dig around. >>


It's cool...I'd heard something about it...I can probably find it
 
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Czar

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hope this money will be well spent, like building upp the houses that has been destroyed in the last few weeks.
 
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<< hope this money will be well spent, like building upp the houses that has been destroyed in the last few weeks. >>




hope this money will be spent well, arming more suicide bombers to destroy more lives. there is no way that this money is actually going to the people. Yasser Arafat has made millions off the the poor Palestinian people.
 
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From the above article:



<< Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Bush "should immediately demand that the Saudis stop this.

"It's totally hypocritical for Saudi Arabia to give this money to terrorists if they are our ally," he said.

And Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn) said Saudi "blood money is permeating the entire Middle East. The duplicity of the Saudis is breathtaking." >>

 
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i believe a big chunk of the money (27mil?) was from the same prince in saudi who tried to give the money (11mil?) to NY and was turned down by the Mayor of NY at the time. this was the story from yahoo news i read earlier.
 
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Transcripts from P.I. a few nights ago with a great point that Bill makes at the end.

Bill Maher: No, actually, the people are more extreme. If the Israelis were to listen to some of the people, they would use the nuclear weapons they have on the Arabs. If the Arabs had a nuclear bomb, they would use it on Israel in two seconds. Now to answer your question -- "What can we do?" We could stop using so much oil, and that way we wouldn't be dependant.

Leah Lail: They might be fighting in the Middle East, but a miracle has occurred here because I'm loving everything you're saying tonight. I agree with you.

Sen. George Allen(R-VA): It's early. It's early.

Bill: Why is that such a miracle?

Leah: Well, you know. Generally --

Sue Ellicott: That's bad. That means she usually watches your show and disagrees with everything.

Sen. Allen: Let's assume we get advanced technology in fuel cells and hybrid vehicles and have more domestic production and all the rest -

Bill: Conservation?

Sen. Allen: All of that. You don't think that's gonna make any difference as far as Israel and Palestine?

Bill: Of course it is. If we use -- if we had slight increases in fuel efficiency, we would need no more Middle East oil. And you know that, sir.

Sen. Allen: No, we wouldn't. We have about 65% of our oil is imported.

Bill: And only 25% from the Middle East.

Sue: You think if we didn't need Middle East oil, that suddenly the Palestinians and the Israelis would see eye-to-eye and they'd stop fighting?

Bill: No, but we wouldn't have to pretend to buddy up to the dealer. See, Israel's our girlfriend, and Saudi Arabia's our dealer.
And our dealer is bitch slapping our girlfriend.
 
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It would be great if the money is going to the homeless, but a large chunk of it will be given to the families of suicide bombers, this would encourage desperately poor Palestinians to blow up more Israelis. Each year, the EU and the US give the Palestinian refugees about $300 million, while all the Arab countries, combine, give about $7 million.
 
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b0mbrman

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Wait a second...CNNtv just reported that a big chunk of that money is going to the "martyrs'" families...

I know martyr can be used as anyone who dies in fighting or, as has been happening recently, as a suicide bomber...

Anyone know which one is right in this case?
 
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Yeah, it's real heartening to see the rest of the Arab world finally starting to care about the Palestinians that they have ignored, marginalized, or used for political gain for the last, oh, 2002 - 1948 = 54 years. Couldn't they have used $55 mil 2 years ago a lot better than now?
 
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two years ago that money would have gone to feed more suicide bombers. how can the money not go to the families of the suicide bombers since there are so many of them?
 
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Saudi Arabia donates money... Iran donates the guns/bombs... Iraq donates to the children of suicide bombers so they can follow in their mother/father footsteps. The palestinians have become the pawns of the middle east.
 
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<< Bill: No, but we wouldn't have to pretend to buddy up to the dealer. See, Israel's our girlfriend, and Saudi Arabia's our dealer.
And our dealer is bitch slapping our girlfriend. >>



LOL
 
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This is exactly why we should suck Alaska dry.

Why? Because Caraboo can't HIGHJACK PLANES.


Dennis Miller rules :)
 
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