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Americans just gave every Gazan $200
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 16, 2014 @ 6:08 pm In The Point | 8 Comments
It’s a sizable bump from the already sizable amount of assistance that the Palestinian Arabs have been getting from the rest of the world.
The current pledges add up to around $5 billion. That comes out to something like $2,700 for every Gazan. That’s not bad considering that it’s around half the local yearly salary.
Over $200 million of that money is coming from the United States with another $200 million in “humanitarian” aid. Or to put it another way, Americans just gave every Gazan 200 bucks.
Of course that’s a fraction of the various trails of foreign aid that flow from the US to the West Bank and Gaza. We went from $75 million a year under Clinton to $360 million under Bush to $900 million in Obama’s first year. And that’s an incomplete accounting because it doesn’t take into account every loophole for funneling more money to terrorists.
Good thing we have so much money ourselves that we can dump a whole lot of it on Hamas terrorists.
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