Soap Box...

I ran into this story from Reuters about President Abbas tightening up Palestinian money-laundering laws. It reminded me of how annoyed I get when I see Palestinians living in such poverty. Their leaders for decades received Billions of dollars from Arab countries like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, etc... These Arab countries gave money to the Palestinians because they wanted to help them and they didn't want to have the Palestinians in their countries (see what happened to the late King Hussein of Jordan.) I always asked where did all of this money go? It sure didn't go to the people who needed it. Maybe if it had been used properly, the jobless rate would be a whole lot lower. There would be less poverty and the people would have some type of hope. All of those years of corruption seem to have bitten the leaders when Fatah suffered recent election setbacks.

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