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US comes to the rescue of troubled Lebanese
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14997834/?GT1=8506BEIRUT, Lebanon - They endured a summer of war, but now relief is coming for Lebanon’s little known victims — cats and dogs abandoned when their owners fled the country during the early days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Some 300 of the former pets are being flown to the United States on Monday for adoption.
Let there not be said that the Americans don't care about of the plight of the Lebanese
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That's true. I didn't see any other country rushing shipments of 5-ton bombs to Israel so they could drop them on the Lebanese.
Nice to see they care about puppies and kittens though.
Not the Chinese, who have sent many peacekeepers with thte UN out there, and sadly, lost some, thanks the the Israelis continued plic of firing on anything and everything Ten times.
Nice to see this though. At least someone is thinking of the animals.
The US is giving $230 million for humanitarian, reconstruction and security assistance to Lebanon.
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/26/eng20060926_306292.html
President Bush has called for aid for Lebanon.
Source?
If this is the case then the answer is simple. Stop firing at Israel then.
Bringing lots of smiles indeed, funny how you don't notice that America almost single handidly funds the Israeli war machine. It would be a sitting duck without America's help. This animal chirade is a load of bollocks!
Yet more uninformed bollocks. :rolleyes:
Source.
The US like Britain and France is host to various arms manufacturers.
America has not played any significant part (if any part at all) in Israel having nuclear capability. Israel received assistance mainly from France...
GDP of Israel: $114.3 billion (2005 est.)
3.2% = $3.7 billion
GDP of Jordan: $11.51 billion (2005 est.)
14% = $1.6 billion
None listed for West Bank or Gaza.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Not to mention the shipping of hundreds of extra missiles so the IDF could bomb them even more.
You're funny
Indeed, as the chimp was finalising details of aid for Lebanon on line 1, he was authorising the urgent shipping of dozens of 5-tonne bombs to Israel on line 2.
That's what they called in the trade 'joined-up government' I believe...
I don't want to debate the rights and wrongs again of Hezbollah and the IDF but the implication that Israel is some horrific monster that simply mindlessly flattened Lebanon for the sake of it is ridiculous. Nobody can deny the fact that it's a dangerous situation where the Lebanese government does not have complete sovereignty with the private army of Hezbollah superseding the Lebanese govt in a part of the country. The int'l community ordered the disarming of Hezbollah. It did not happen and the result was that Hezbollah was able to inflame an already fragile situation.
I don't deny the fact that the Israelis were careless and trigger-happy in how they conducted themselves but the simple fact remains that had Hezbollah been disarmed they would not have been able to embroil Lebanon and Israel in a bloody war. While there are wrongs on both sides most of the blame must lie with those that allowed Hezbollah to prosper, Hezbollah effectively took the decision to take Lebanon to war - Lebanese sovereignty had to be restored.
Everybody now needs to focus on helping both Lebanon and Israel prosper with both enjoying secure and safe borders. At the same time Olmert should stick to his initial plan to withdraw from large sections of the West Bank. A Palestinian state is long overdue and regardless of the election of Hamas, two states living securely is the way to peace in the region.
Source? I don't know the percentages but my point was that Israel is less dependent on US aid than many other countries.
US aid to Israel should be slowly reduced and eventually scrapped. In the long run it is not good for Israel or the US. The background of the aid from the US to Israel was legitimate, as with lots of things - the CAP perhaps another example; they start with good reason then they steadily increase and become harder to get rid of.
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/publish/article_17.shtml
But just do a Google search for "US aid Israel percentage" and there's tonnes about it.
What do you mean? I don't support US aid to Israel and I don't support the EU propping up French farmers or giving money to 'poorer' EU members at Britain's expense. (Some of the biggest beneficiaries of EU aid include France, Ireland and Spain. They're not poor).
Admittedly France, Portugal and Morocco have never ganged up and tried to destroy Spain so I suppose historically there is some more justification for Israel getting US aid. Although I don't think there is anymore.
Well some people seem to think that Israel is the only country in the world to get money from richer donors. Looking at certain EU members that is evidently not the case.
All EU members contribute to the kitty. Fair enough, some countries and institutions get more money than others but it's not like the EU is some distinct separate entity outside Europe.
That still doesn't change the fact that the EU gives billions in aid to rich countries (Spain, Ireland, etc) like the US gives billions in aid to a rich country. (Israel). You can dress it up however you want it all boils down to money and in both cases the beneficiaries of the aid are not poor.
The US however is happy to bankroll a regime that has committed more war crimes than one cares to think about, and it gives military aid that it is directly going to be used in further acts of aggression and murder.
The sight of the US expediting a shipping of missiles to Israel on the fourth week of the war as the entire world cried for the appalling slaughter of Lebanese civilians to end immediately was a profoundly repulsive one.
Incidentally, it has been disclosed that up to one million unexploded bomblets are littering Lebanon, thanks to Israel's indiscriminate use of evil cluster bombs.
Moreover, an incredible 90% of them were dropped in the last few days of the conflict when the ceasefire was about to come into effect- a militarily pointless, repugnant and quite deliberate act of revenge and murder for which the Israeli PM and those responsible in the IDF will hopefully rot in hell for all eternity like the fucking cunts they are.
I cant be fucked to look up it, its on the beed if ya want it anyway. Also om ChinA Defence blog. Im to fucked right now.
Anway, the UN wern't firing on the Israel. They asked like, TEN TIMES for them to stop firing. eech time Israel said it would. It didn't, and a Chinese officer died,#
Hardl good behaviour.