What $1.3b could do

Jerusalem Post ^ | 8-14-02 | TAL MUSCAL

[SJackson]

With wealth greater than that of Jeff Bezos, founder and chairman of Amazon.com ($1.23 billion, according to Fortune magazine), Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat could pour his money into new housing, hospitals, and health care.

For $1.3 billion, 40,625 six-family dwellings could be built for PA residents ($32,000 per unit).

It could feed 3 million Palestinians for an entire year, and leave $892 million to be spent on 1,000 mobile intensive care units ($69,900 each), as well as funding for 10 hospitals, such as Gaza's Ahli Arab Hospital, for 10 years, leaving $585m. to fund other social projects such as:

Computerization of 10 hospitals at a cost of $4.57m.

The annual salaries of 10,000 medical employees ($4,200 each).

Hepatitis vaccinations for 3 million PA residents ($11.25 per injection).

The price quotes are based on statistics of NGOs providing humanitarian assistance to the PA, presented by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

[facedown]

But that's not his agenda.

[Alouette]

This won't stop the spin machine from complaining about THE OWKKYUUUUPPAAYSHOON!

[verity]

He could also get a decent shave and a new table cloth. :~)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[robertpaulsen]

Wow! I wonder what Israel did with the 90 billion dollars of U.S. assistance since 1949? I wounder what they could have done with it?