No the UNRWA is only harming the Palestinians, the only group is helping them is the loving zionists who occupy the Palestinian land, meanwhile helping the Palestinians to have a better future. Is it right gottalair??

Does the UNRWA really help the Palestinian people or do they just perpetuate the situation for their own gain?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ecb_1233787272

You know AIPAC and all the Israeli Washington insiders are NOTHING MORE than Nazi camp commandants. When we were POW's in WW2 ,not even the Germans DARED or thought about stopping our Red Cross Relief packages. That would be UNGENTLEMANLY,INHUMAN and AGAINST THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS and Rules of Engagement/containment.
B stopping,or interfering with VITAL LIFE SUPPLIES Israel REALLY shows what a cowardly,back-stabbing b****** it is,and how it continues to apply collective punishment as a slow methodical and crafty way of committing GENOCIDE.
The Israelis are JUST RACIST and DESPICABLE.And SHAME ON THE UN/ICJ/ICC for IGNORING Israels WAR CRIMES,thereby ENDORSING them.
SHAME ON THEM!
Hamas should hang on tight to those WHITE PHOSPHOROUS BOMBS that were unexploded AND HAND THEM OVER TO UN OFFICIALS,with a signed letter back,to acknowledge that the Security Council has received ILLEGAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS dropped by Israel, as absolute,incontravertible,concrete proof that Israel is using US made ILLEGAL CHEMICAL WEAPONRY ON TIGHT CIVILIAN POPULATION.
Israel is SO MORONIC and BRUTAL. After all the Jewsih people suffered during WW2 I never would have believed it possible that THEY WOULD DO THE VERY SAME TO OTHERS,as the Nazis did to them. But the Israelis proved that they ARE more than capable of GENOCIDE and BRUTAL MURDER OF INNOCENT,UNARMED MEN,WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
They SHAME humanity,their OWN people,all GOOD CONSCIENCE,people,and GOD!
Peace,Salaam,Shalom.

Aid for Palestine under attack
By Linda S. Heard
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4378.shtml

The answer to the one eye question "Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence?"

"A) The nature of US foreign aid to Israel

A1. Constitutes 30% of the total US foreign aid budget, which renders Israel to be the largest recipient of US aid in the world

* Since 1987, the US congress has annually been approving a foreign aid bill totaling an average of $3 billion of American taxpayers' money to Israel, $1.2 billion in economical aid, and $1.8 billion in military aid.
* After the gulf war in 1991, the US has additionally been offering Israel $2 billion annually in federal loan guarantees, which brings the total US foreign aid to Israel to about $5 billion, or $13.7 million per day.
* Other forms of aid to Israel are a result of "consequential" aid, such as the approximate $1.5 billion in total tax-deductible private donations from numerous Jewish charities and individual donors. "Consequential" aid to Israel adds up to an approximate $8 billion in total US foreign aid to Israel.
* All in all, this is the largest amount of foreign aid given to a country, and constitutes over 30% of the total amount of US foreign aid budget.

A2. Started in 1948 and gradually increased over the years

* Soon after the Truman decision in 1948 to recognize Israel as a Jewish State, the US Congress approved an aid package in the form of a $135 million Export-Import Bank loan in order to take in holocaust survivors and provide them with homes.
* Until 1973, aid was mainly made up of military, economic and export-import bank loans, although annual economic grants ranging between $0.1 and $74 million were also offered between the years 1951 and 1962.
* After the 1973 war, the US aid to Israel constituted largely of military and economic grants to help strengthen the Israeli defense forces. This included $12-80 million, which was annually granted towards the establishment of Jewish settlements.
* This TABLE shows the history of US financial assistance to Israel, as documented by the Jewish Virtual Library. Notice the pattern of increased assistance over the years for economic, military and Jewish immigrant grants, especially after 1973. This pattern reflects the US interests (section A3) in empowering Israel as the only democratic, close ally in the region, and not for the pure intent to assist a developing country...."
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=753&CategoryId=4#A

Compare!!
U.S. Aid to the Palestinians
http://opencrs.com/document/RS22370/2006-02-02%2000:00:00

U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel
http://opencrs.com/document/RL33222

"U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact
Summary:
Benefits to Israel of U.S. Aid
Since 1949 (As of November 1, 1997)

Foreign Aid Grants and Loans
$74,157,600,000
Other U.S. Aid (12.2% of Foreign Aid)
$9,047,227,200
Interest to Israel from Advanced Payments
$1,650,000,000
Grand Total
$84,854,827,200
Total Benefits per Israeli
$14,630

Cost to U.S. Taxpayers of U.S.
Aid to Israel

Grand Total
$84,854,827,200
Interest Costs Borne by U.S.
$49,936,680,000
Total Cost to U.S. Taxpayers
$134,791,507,200
Total Taxpayer Cost per Israeli
$23,240"
Read the articles:
http://www.wrmea.com/html/us_aid_to_israel.htm#Taxpayer

Also did you read your link gotta?
"Israel is the #1 recipient of U.S. aid. But it doesn't really need the money, which totals less than 3% of its GDP. In fact, U.S. aid probably discourages needed economic reforms which could make the Israeli economy more productive. Aid also makes Israel unnecessarily dependent on the United States, making the Jewish state vulnerable to U.S. pressure to make unwise concessions to its enemies. You can't receive aid, in other words, with no strings attached. (See "Israel Doesn't Need to Be A Banana Republic", for some good recommendations along these lines).
http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/aw_1021.shtml

debois: I would estimate that FAR MORE than 5 billion goes to Israel per annum.
Probably,more like 10 billion,after you add in the money-laundering/embezzlements/and under-the-table political bundles,filtered out through Europe.
Does Foreign Aid enable/Fuel Israeli violence?
YOU BETTYA!
Without OUR tax dollars they would be using slings and stones themselves after a few years!

Without that AMERICAN money,which is Israels lifeline(umbilical cord),literally,Israel would be TOTALLY insolvent and die,which INDEED could be a MASSIVE problem,for them,if demographically there is a temporary influx of immigrants feeding off the parasite,as IT IN TURN sucks the HOST(US) dry.
The whole scenario of INDEPENDENT wealth in Israel,is a superficial mirage.
That sudden and temporary influx of immigrants,and the DEMISE of Foreign Aid for Israel,will hasten the demise of zionist Israeli policies.
Just as the zionist(debt and USURY + compound interest rates)policies in the USA is DESTROYING and LOOTING our economy and OUR AMERICAN childrens future.
The demise of these failed zionist economic policies can only be a GOOD THING for America and even Israel in the long run.
Get rid of the economic 'cancer' spread,and perhaps the HOST has a chance of survival,IF IT REFORMS its policies,SPENDING and HUGE INDULGENCE of FUNDING perpetual wars/occupations and DEATH and hatred.
Right now America DOESN'T have TOO many true friends to form quality,long term mutually strong business alliances WITH.
The Middle East does EXACTLY what the USA does.
It uses private contractors,from poor North African/Asian/Indonesian/Eastern Europe/Malaysian areas at slave labor 'peanut' wages to do 80 per cent of the National labor,with no benefits,protections and guarantees.
The infrastructure of the Gulf States and Saudi etc,CANNOT be upheld without this imported cheap labor,and as we have SEEN,they are jumping a sinking ship and going home,just as many Mexican/South Americans are DOING HERE.
The geographical/geological region of Israel and the OCCUPIED territories,doesn't EVEN HAVE THE RESOURCES now to maintain,independentantly,Israel ALONE(thanks to their wastage and destruction),and that's only the resources that Israel is STEALING ALREADY(fOR SIXTY ++ YEARS) from the Palestinian Arab people,so if there is an temporay influx of immigrants,THAT WILL overstretch the resources EVEN MORE.

Foreign Aid to Israel.What does IT buy?
Nothing! It is ALWAYS just a band-aid on a severed artery.
If it WAS buying something worthwhile,or if Israel was SPENDING it frugally,wisely and creatively,for all,we wouldn't be seeing:
-Death and Destruction and a barren wasteland in a once beautiful fertile,agricultural,scientific,industrious Mediterranean region.
-Genocide,torture of Arab/Muslims/Christians,perpetual racism,military dictatorship and ONGOING pre-emptive threat to all others in the region NON-Jewish.

What a MAJOR thorn in the buttocks,just spreading sepsis throughout a WHOLE REGION that could mutually prosper and THRIVE,economically,culturally AND spiritually.

Peace,Salaam,Shalom.

Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence?

by Steven Stotsky
Middle East Quarterly
Summer 2008, pp. 23-30

On December 17, 2007, eighty-seven countries and international organizations met in Paris and pledged to provide $7.4 billion over three years to the Palestinian Authority[1] (PA), an amount far in excess of any previous level of U.S. or European aid to the Palestinians. The conference participants justified the aid as a means of providing "immediate support to the entire Palestinian population,"[2] and as a reward intended to strengthen those Palestinians who favor peaceful coexistence with Israel.[3]

In the midst of the effort in Paris to bestow unprecedented sums of foreign aid on the Palestinians, there was little discussion of the unintended consequences — often deadly ones — of previous aid regimens. The recent history of foreign assistance shows a distinct correlation between aid and violence. Perhaps aid itself does not cause violence, but there is strong evidence that it contributes to a culture of corruption, government malfeasance, and terrorism that has had lethal consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians over the past decade.

The Paris conference aid package continues fifteen years of international funding that has established the Palestinians as one of the world's leading per capita recipients of foreign support (see Table 1). Figures published by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development for 2005 show that Palestinians received $304 per person in foreign aid,[4] second only to the war-torn Republic of Congo among entities with populations larger than one million. Unlike the Congo, though, the Palestinians have received such subsidies for decades.

http://www.meforum.org/article/192

Foreign Aid and the Middle East - What Do Our Dollars Buy?

The U.S. taxpayer, through his government, pumps billions of dollars annually into other countries via foreign aid. Certainly, some of this aid has done some good. Some could be justified, especially limited programs with close scrutiny. But it's quite likely that much, or possibly most, foreign aid is wasted and counter-productive.

http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/aw_1021.shtml

Loch, Israel receives annually 3 billion dollars in financial aid from the US taxpayer. It also receives 1.3 billion in loan guarantees and military aid. This is a whole lot of dough for a foreign country with a population of 6 million. Talking about a stimulus package!

Currently, the Israeli economy fares better than that of other developed nations, and certainly much better than that of the Arab world. Small wonder, when one considers that the global financial system is run by Zionists.

One of the impacts that many in Israel foresee is an increase in immigration, as many Jews flee worsening economies for Israel's relative prosperity. All these newcomers will have to find a place to live somewhere. The West Bank perhaps?

However, the current situation may not be stable. The coming territory is uncharted- what happens when Peak Oil meets the deflationary tsunami of a Kondriateff Winter?

Money, at best is an index of reality. As money supplies dry up, demand for resources drops- but it cannot drop below a certain necessary level- there are nearly seven billion people after all. If the deflationary cycle impacts food production to a certain point, people will begin to take food from those who have it by force- first in a domestic theater (riots, crime), and then in an international one (wars).

Governments will all be forced to monetize their debt, since no-one will have the money to buy it- The US Treasury is already buying back its own unsold Treasury bond offers. This increase in paper money will drive a global trend towards hyperinflation. Hyperiniflation is just deflation in disguise.

I suggest that in the short term, as the Zionist financial manipulators tweak the system for the maximum benefit of Israel, that Israel will fare better than anyplace else. but as the financial system progressively disintegrates, it will be resource producers who will fare better- after all, they have what people want.

Those nations that nationalize their oil reserves,and that demand payment in either commodities (food, weapons, gold, etc), or in cooperative barter trades, rather than in money, will fare much better than any nation that must remain tied to a monetary system.

The actual policies may not be as extreme as i have described above, but some form of this will be enacted by many. The big losers will be the US and Israel. Especially as such economic measures will have the effect, (if an anti- Zionist, anti- money system policy is not spelled out directly, which I think is very possible), of cutting the Zionist money manipulators out of the equation.

Video:Dubai changes.
And all of this is tied in with how the US has just had an economic 9/11 pulled on it,by its own Corporations of Reserve/Treasury,Wall Street and cartel of Washington Insiders. Biggest 'inside job' since 9/11 2001. Eh,Mr Madoff,Paulsen,Bernanke,Rubins,Geithner,Citigroup,Lehmans,BOA,AIG etc.
And I bettya I know where the BILLIONS has 'disappeared' to (wink! wink!),and it just committed WAR CRIMES in GAZA!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/feb/13/dubai-troubles

Peace,Salaam,Shalom.

Camels to Rolls Royces to Cessnas to JetStream liners to Hummers to Camels again!
Why do you think they NEVER gave up their camels,the SHIPS OF THE DESERT! lol!
The only thing in life that is CONSTANT is CHANGE.
Peace,Salaam,Shalom.

This week, crude oil prices fell on the news of sinking petroleum consumption, with oil futures at the New York Mercantile Exchange down more than 5 percent to below $38 a barrel. While this news sounds like music to the average driver worldwide, it has been a nightmare for oil producing countries, especially those in the Middle East.

Just less than a year ago as oil prices soared, Arab Gulf countries were the envy of wealth-seekers across the globe. Once hailed as the economic superpower of the Middle East, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is now looking like a ghost town.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/the-new-danger-in-the-mid_b_166696.html