At the risk of inflaming readers poised to scream whenever we write about the Gaza Strip, it’s worth noting that Portland-based Mercy Corps announced this morning that it received a $10 million grant from Qatar Charity to help rebuild the war-torn area.
The two organizations describe the grant as a “kind of economic stimulus package” designed to help an estimated 28,000 people over the next three years by providing temporary income to needy workers, helping businesses get small loans and trying to boost the Gaza Strip’s technology sector.
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Not a single dime should be spent on Gaza until Hamas is kicked out and they quit shelling and rocketing southern Israel.
Anything else is simply enabling terrorists.
Don’t let those peace loving Hamas supporters see you talking to Jews or this could happen to you too: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1d6_1234539823
Pathetic responses from people who don’t get it.
Let’s just hope our dear Israeli friends will actually let the aid get to Gaza. Also, let’s give a shout out to the 2 anti-Palestinian folks above for their hateful, ridiculous comments. Bravo.
Brian, the reason it’s so hard to get aid in is the continued smuggling of Iranian supplied weapons used to attack southern Israel. No country can reasonably be expected to allow weapons and munitions to transit through areas of their control, only to have those weapons then used against them.
If Vail, Washington, was being shelled from Canadian territory, you damned well know any vessel moving through areas of our control would be boarded and searched.
All the Gaza Arabs have to do is get rid of Hamas, a entity identified by our own state department as a terrorist organization, and quit attacking Israel. Until they do that, they are living in an weapons impact area, plain and simple.
Oh, by the way "t", as far as "not getting it", I lived there for 30 months. You?