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Text: U.S. Responds to Palestinian Humanitarian Aid Request With $20 Million
US State Dept. ^ | 27 February 2004

Posted on 03/04/2004 5:03:16 PM PST by yonif

The State Department has been authorized to use $20 million to assist Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

According to a February 27 statement by State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher, President Bush authorized the funds in response to UNRWA's emergency appeal for $193 million to fund food, shelter, health, and other humanitarian needs of over 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.

"The United States is the largest bilateral donor to UNRWA. We encourage other donors to contribute urgently to this emergency appeal," said the statement.

Following is the text of the statement:

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman February 27, 2004

STATEMENT BY RICHARD BOUCHER, SPOKESMAN

United States Support for Palestinian Refugees

President George W. Bush on February 25, 2004 authorized the Department of State to use up to $20 million from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to assist Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This contribution is in response to the agency's $193 million 2004 emergency appeal to fund food, shelter, health, and other humanitarian needs of the over 1.5 million Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza. The United States is the largest bilateral donor to UNRWA. We encourage other donors to contribute urgently to this emergency appeal.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aidtoterror; palestinianarabs; terroristregime
President Bush authorized the funds in response to UNRWA's emergency appeal for $193 million to fund food, shelter, health, and other humanitarian needs of over 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.

Food and shelter for terrorists and their activities.

It's a war on terrorism.

1 posted on 03/04/2004 5:03:17 PM PST by yonif
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To: SJackson; Yehuda; Nachum; Paved Paradise; Thinkin' Gal; Bobby777; adam_az; Alouette; IFly4Him; ...
The United States is the largest bilateral donor to UNRWA. We encourage other donors to contribute urgently to this emergency appeal.
2 posted on 03/04/2004 5:03:46 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040302-2.html

We have been called to service. We've been called to action. And we accept that responsibility. With fine allies, we are winning the war against the terrorists. We're disrupting terrorist operations. We're cutting off their funding.

I laid out a doctrine a while ago, and it said if you harbor a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists.

The US must stop being hypocritical.

3 posted on 03/04/2004 5:06:14 PM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: yonif
idiots
4 posted on 03/04/2004 5:06:59 PM PST by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: yonif
The State Department has been authorized to use $20 million to assist Palestinian refugees

That's $20,000,000 of OUR tax dollars hard at work!

5 posted on 03/04/2004 5:10:43 PM PST by Ken522
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To: yonif
What's worse, they KNOW this is money wasted. Let Arafat pay for their needs, he's raked off far more than $20 million.

Aaargh!
6 posted on 03/04/2004 5:12:27 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus
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To: yonif
The State Department has been authorized to use $20 million to assist Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza

New shoes for Suha.

7 posted on 03/04/2004 5:13:20 PM PST by Alouette (Mitul d'min kadam Shemayo malchusa v'shalim b'ammaya)
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To: yonif
Palestinians, the homless beggars on the world's street corners.

Is charity their only source of income as a people?

What industry do they have besides bomb-making?

8 posted on 03/04/2004 5:13:53 PM PST by CPOSharky (Kerry - Will vote for money; Edwards - Will sue for money (My new bumper sticker))
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To: yonif
Food and shelter? Not - it's just more $ for bomb making materials and other weapons. If we supply food and medicine, that just fees up there other resources for buying weapons.

Either way, our $$ will help their terrorist activities. No thanks - why don't they beg from their Arab/Muslim buddies? Oh, yeah - they can't stand them either. The only money flowing from those thugs to the Palis is reward money for the murderer's families.
9 posted on 03/04/2004 5:22:00 PM PST by TheBattman (Miserable failure = http://www.michaelmoore.com)
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To: TheBattman
WHO WERE THE FOOLS IN WASHINGTON TO APPROVE 20 MIL.
10 posted on 03/04/2004 5:48:50 PM PST by jocko12
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To: yonif
We are, once again, financing both sides of a war.
11 posted on 03/04/2004 6:32:19 PM PST by edger (he)
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