{"id":443,"date":"2006-02-27T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/02\/europe-steps-in-to-aid-palestine\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T23:10:00","slug":"europe-steps-in-to-aid-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/02\/europe-steps-in-to-aid-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Steps In To Aid Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Union has decided to honour the Palestinian democratic choice of government, Hamas, and assist the Palestinians by giving them \u20ac120m (\u00a383m – $140m) aid for this important “transitional period”. <\/p>\n

This comes as Israel witholds $50m per month<\/a> in customs and taxes used to run Palestinian society – it pays nurses, doctors, teachers, police, civil servants. “The aid is designed to meet the “basic needs” of Palestinians and will be distributed by the United Nations. The EU package approved on Monday includes: 64m euros going through UN agencies to the poorest in the Palestinian territories. 20m euros will pay the salaries of Palestinian Authority officials. 40m will be earmarked for electricity and other energy expenses.”
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The BBC article has all the numbers you need to grasp the meaning of this graph showing the breakdown of aid.<\/a> Like almost all BBC articles, it is well researched and accurate, but like most western news media, the BBC report tells only a fraction of the story and skirts the real issue.<\/p>\n

Palestine may have received $1bn from the EU and the US in 2005, but compare this with the amount of aid that Israel receives, through arms, tax free US donations and other means.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Israeli government is the largest recipient of US financial aid in the world, receiving over one-third of total US aid to foreign countries, even though Israel\u2019s population comprises just .001% of the world\u2019s population and has one of the world\u2019s higher per capita incomes.<\/p>\n

Since 1949 the US has given Israel a total of $84,854,827,200. The interest costs born by US taxpayers on behalf of Israel are $49,937,000,000 \u2013 making the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $134,791,507,200 (more than $134 billion).<\/p>\n

Private donations to American charities initially constituted one quarter of Israel\u2019s budget. Today, it is estimated that these tax-deductible donations exceed $1.5 billion per year. The ability of Americans to make what amounts to tax deductible contributions to a foreign government does not exist for any other country.”<\/p>\n

Palestine<\/a> Israel<\/a> Hamas<\/a> EU<\/a> BBC Links<\/a> Palestinian Monitor<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The European Union has decided to honour the Palestinian democratic choice of government, Hamas, and assist the Palestinians by giving them \u20ac120m (\u00a383m – $140m) aid for this important “transitional period”. This comes as Israel witholds $50m per month in customs and taxes used to run Palestinian society – it pays nurses, doctors, teachers, police, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}