Gaza And Hamas

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

BB, can you post some statistics to back up that assertion, please? Be sure to include defense funding in those numbers. And the source from where you get the statistics that Palestinians receive more aid per capita, and how much aid they get per capita. And the total amount received by the Palestinians and by the Israelis, since you say Palestine has received more aid than Israel ever had.

Believe it or not, I'm not disputing; I just want the facts and the source so I can cross-check it. Post them, please!

Neither the Israeli economy nor the Palestinian economy benefits significantly from foreign aid ... but for very different reasons.

The aid to Israel is used almost exclusively for defense ... and the reason they need it for defense is because the Arab nations keep attacking them. Absent unprovoked attacks against its very existence ... Israel would not need ... nor want .... any foreign aid.

The aid to the Palestinians is intended for economic benefit ... but almost none reaches the average Palestinian ... because their "leaders" steal it from them. Can you say, "Suha Arafat is alive and well in Paris"?

I repeat ... Israel is a modern and prosperous country because it lives by the rule of law ... and applies the same rule of law to everyone.

The Palestinians are impoverished and backward because they are morally bankrupt.

Any country can become prosperous ... by providing safety and freedom for its citizens and visitors. Switzerland ... a small, landlocked, mountainous country in the center of Europe ... became the birthplace of chocolate confections ... the basis of which ... cocoa ... is a tropical plant. If Switzerland can score a big success with chocolate ... any country can be successful with anything ... provided it is lawful and honorable.

If the Palestiinians lived by the rule of law and respect for others ... they'd be a lot more successful than they are.