Al Jazeera: Arab world set to foot the war bill

Al Jazeera ^ | 4/15/3

[lilylangtree]

"ESCWA would concentrate its efforts on a “limited number of priorities,” such as water, globalisation, social policy and technology and the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Iraq . . . . ESCWA member states are Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen."

With all of Europe plus the UN (with cowardly France, Germany and Russia waving the white flag) dying to get their hands on control of Iraq, wouldn't the ESCWA membership with all their money and land resources better serve the world by resettling the palis onto arab land or repatriating the palis onto Jordanian land, the true Palestine? The palis are their own islamic brothers and sisters, and the phenomenal wealth of these countries could solve the middle east problem in no time flat.

[Alouette]

“In the past 10 years, average per capita income in the Arab region has been the lowest in the world, largely because of the fall in the price of oil,” said Tallawi.

They'll find some way to blame this on DA JOOOOS.

[Reagan is King]

a UN economic seminar in Beirut warned on Monday.

This tells us all we need to know.

[Nucluside]

Right you are!
Also, as far as the war "costing" that area $1 trillion, how about a big plate full of tough s--t?

[KneelBeforeZod]

they'll pay to rebuild iraq. but you "palestinians" are S.O.L. they need you there to be a victim.

take it for the team!

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from April 15, 2003. Thanks WaveThatFlag.

The US-led war on Iraq could cost as much as $1,000 billion in lost production in Arab countries, a UN economic seminar in Beirut warned on Monday... Mervat Tallawi, Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) ... estimated the cost of the war at a trillion dollars in lost gross domestic product, on top of the $600 billion lost due to the 1991 Gulf War... [She] added that between four and five million jobs had been lost following the previous Gulf War and the figure was expected to rise between six and seven million as a result of the current conflict. "In the past 10 years, average per capita income in the Arab region has been the lowest in the world, largely because of the fall in the price of oil," ... the region's woes included, "a fall in interest rates, an increase in military spending, which reached double the international average, a fall in tourist and transport income, particularly among airlines, a rise in the cost of insurance and reinsurance as well as a decrease in trade between Arab countries... the degradation of the environment following military attacks and the use of arms of mass destruction, cluster bombs…as well as human, civil and military losses." ...ESCWA member states are Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.