The Union Tribune says that a lot of countries have pledged an immense amount of money to help rebuild the Gasa strip:
$5.4B PLEDGED TO GAZA, HALF FOR REBUILDING | UTSanDiego.com
However, today's Union Tribune reported that none of the "pledged" money is being "funded" by those donors yet. The report was made by Tia Goldenberg, who apparently is a reporter/writer for Israeli news organization (so probably can't be trusted to be impartial). See this link: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/81a7db32e60b4b7b89da5af38f6c02ce/palestinian-man-arrested-after-foiled-attack-soldier
However it is believable. Why would anyone put up money to rebuild something that will likely get blown up again by the aggressive Israeli's? In response to the launch of a series of unreliable, inaccurate and somewhat impotent missiles launched by radical factions in Gaza, Israel blew up much of the Palestinian infrastructure (thousands of buildings) and killed a large number (2100) of men, women and children whom they keep trapped in what appears to be a prison camp called the Gaza strip. Very little damage was done to Israeli property and very few deaths or injuries to its citizens (66 soldiers and 7 deaths according to Tia Goldenberg).
The correct response, in my mind, would have been for Israel to go into Gaza, capture the individuals involved, give them fair and open trials and impose fair and reasonable punishment when found guilty. Why must Israel blow up all of the Palestinian's buildings, power plants etc? That is just crazy! Why should the Palestinians have to depend upon the charity of other, uninvolved, Arab countries to rebuild? When the US goes in to a country and blows up everything (which I also think is sometimes too much), we end up paying for the repairs, as we have in Afghanistan and Iraq most recently. We even helped Germany and Japan rebuild after WWII! Why shouldn't Israel pay and manage the reconstruction of the Gaza strip? The US has fully funded Israel's state-sponsored terrorism against their neighbors. If Israel won't pay for the rebuilding, we should stop sending our money to Israel, and divert it to help the people of Gaza. Israel and their allies have been paying for advertising on billboards, radio and television to try to convince US citizens that what they have been doing is correct. I think that is just another example of why we shouldn't be supporting them.
If I were asked to contribute to help Gaza rebuild, I would insist that every building be designed to withstand bombs, and have anti aircraft and anti missile equipment mounted to help defend them from Israel before I would lend them a dime!
$5.4B PLEDGED TO GAZA, HALF FOR REBUILDING | UTSanDiego.com
However, today's Union Tribune reported that none of the "pledged" money is being "funded" by those donors yet. The report was made by Tia Goldenberg, who apparently is a reporter/writer for Israeli news organization (so probably can't be trusted to be impartial). See this link: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/81a7db32e60b4b7b89da5af38f6c02ce/palestinian-man-arrested-after-foiled-attack-soldier
However it is believable. Why would anyone put up money to rebuild something that will likely get blown up again by the aggressive Israeli's? In response to the launch of a series of unreliable, inaccurate and somewhat impotent missiles launched by radical factions in Gaza, Israel blew up much of the Palestinian infrastructure (thousands of buildings) and killed a large number (2100) of men, women and children whom they keep trapped in what appears to be a prison camp called the Gaza strip. Very little damage was done to Israeli property and very few deaths or injuries to its citizens (66 soldiers and 7 deaths according to Tia Goldenberg).
The correct response, in my mind, would have been for Israel to go into Gaza, capture the individuals involved, give them fair and open trials and impose fair and reasonable punishment when found guilty. Why must Israel blow up all of the Palestinian's buildings, power plants etc? That is just crazy! Why should the Palestinians have to depend upon the charity of other, uninvolved, Arab countries to rebuild? When the US goes in to a country and blows up everything (which I also think is sometimes too much), we end up paying for the repairs, as we have in Afghanistan and Iraq most recently. We even helped Germany and Japan rebuild after WWII! Why shouldn't Israel pay and manage the reconstruction of the Gaza strip? The US has fully funded Israel's state-sponsored terrorism against their neighbors. If Israel won't pay for the rebuilding, we should stop sending our money to Israel, and divert it to help the people of Gaza. Israel and their allies have been paying for advertising on billboards, radio and television to try to convince US citizens that what they have been doing is correct. I think that is just another example of why we shouldn't be supporting them.
If I were asked to contribute to help Gaza rebuild, I would insist that every building be designed to withstand bombs, and have anti aircraft and anti missile equipment mounted to help defend them from Israel before I would lend them a dime!
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