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Fri Jun 18 14:33:57 CDT 2004
The problem is saudia arabia, Bush's long time friends.
Saudi Telethon Raises Over $100 Million for
Palestinians
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - More than $100 million has been
collected in a telethon that ended Saturday to raise money
for the Palestinians and also allowed Saudis to vent their
anger against Israel and the United States on state-owned
television.
A 6-year-old boy, with a plastic gun slung over his
shoulder and fake explosives strapped around his waist,
walked into a donation center and made a symbolic donation
of plastic explosives, according to Al Watan daily.
Another Saudi, 26-year-old Mohamed al-Qahtani, offered his
car, saying he hoped it will "reach the Palestinian areas
so a Palestinian fighter could use it to blow up a
military barracks and kill (Israeli) soldiers," Al Watan
reported.
Saudi Arabia's ruler, King Fahd, ordered the fund-raising
drive to help channel mounting public anger against Israel
and the United States away from street protests, which the
kingdom bans for fear they would get out of control. The
campaign was criticized by some in the United States as an
incitement to violence. But Saudi officials in Washington
have assured the Bush administration that proceeds raised
are intended to serve humanitarian purposes, not help the
families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Defense minister,
Prince Sultan, on Saturday criticized public
demonstrations in the Arab world, asking "how does the
demagoguery of the streets and the burning and ripping of
flags help Palestinians in their country?"
Charitable donations to help the Palestinians "are what
would help," Sultan said in comments carried by the
official Saudi Press Agency. The Saudi Committee for the
Support of the Intefadeh, or uprising, which has organized
the telethon, said in a statement that it will also send
$10.5 million in emergency aid to 200,000 Palestinians,
whose West Bank towns have been besieged by Israeli forces
since March 29.
Several other Gulf states have staged telethons. One
Friday in the United Arab Emirates on Abu Dhabi TV raised
more than $50 million. Another in neighboring Bahrain saw
more than $10.5 million pledged. Telethons held in Dubai
and Qatar this week raised $35 million and $8.2 million
respectively. In Jerusalem, Secretary of State Colin
Powell noted the dire situation in some Palestinian towns.
He announced a $30 million U.S. contribution for the U.N.
Relief and Works Agency on top of the $80 million already
contributed annually.
>-----Original Message-----
>"Keyboard Cowboy"
<thekeyboardcowboy@nospam.cybersolutionz.com> wrote in
>message news:1e1b101c45560$c77b6270$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> 20 year plan for mideast:
>
>Good, I'm glad *someone* has a plan.
>
>> 40' high razor wire/cement barrier around enitre
mideast.
>
>Hey, Israel isn't having too much trouble with their
little wall experiment,
>now are they?
>
>> Women and children may leave through a few selected
exits.
>
>Why are women and children allowed out, but not men?
>
>> Men willing to be imprisoned until thoroughly
investigated
>> and questioned may also leave (under military
supervision).
>
>Well, now that we've got a democracy (in the US's image,
kinda) over in
>Iraq, how could anyone conceivable imprison someone until
proven guilty of
>anything? That said, even I'd be willing to be imprisoned
if the alternative
>was, say, torture...
>
>> Thoroughly nuke the entire mideast area in said
>> containment area.
>
>OK, now you're getting silly. Everyone would agree to
questioning, or pose
>as a woman, leave the area, then you'd nuke it. Great,
now we have 20
>million people, who many consider crazy (some rightfully
so, some not),
>angry because they have no home. Where do you think
they're going to come
>first? You guessed it....the "land of opportunity." Good
work, now all the
>people that hate us, hate us even more, and they're
*among* us. Fantastic!
>
>I guess the US could outsource their terrorists to other
countries. Like
>India. ;)
>
>> 20 years later, nuclear fallout should be at a minimum,
>> all may return.
>
>20? Not even 200. Check out this, it's rather interesting:
>
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
>
>> or
>>
>> Just nuke it regardless.
>
>Oh, now I know you were just kidding.
>
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