Saudi king announces $1 billion help to Gaza Strip
saudi kingThe Saudi king on Monday said his country will donate $1 billion to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after Israel's devastating three-week offensive in the Palestinian territory. "On behalf of the Saudi people, I declare the donation of one billion dollars for programmes to rebuild Gaza," the Saudi monarch said.
According to the AP, King Abdullah criticizes Israel for using excessive force and said "one drop of Palestinian blood" is more valuable than all the money in the world. The king spoke Monday in Kuwait City at a summit focused on boosting economic growth and development in the Arab world.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Sabeeha
The Saudi king on Monday said his country will donate $1 billion to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after Israel's devastating three-week offensive in the Palestinian territory. "On behalf of the Saudi people, I declare the donation of one billion dollars for programmes to rebuild Gaza," the Saudi monarch said.
Re-build what ? Re-build whilst Israel is still there destroying ? Why not stop giving oil to America ?
When we see Jets over Gaza, or tanks / ARVs roll into Gaza, they need oil in order to function. Lots of Oil. Under estimates, each plane requires 85 Gallons per minute. If we assume that each mission lasts for 2 hours, this is 10,000 gallons per sortie (mission). This means that Israel, since the war began, has required 15 Million gallons of fuel. This fuel is provided by the USA.
The OPEC countries provide over 1134 Million Gallons of Oil per day around the world. If Oil production were to seize, the impact upon the global economy would be enormous, as well as the USA no longer supplying fuel to Israel, as it would be scarce. Country to popular belief, US oil reserves are nowhere near significant enough to allow the fueling of a proxy war via Israel. The fighting would be over within days, perhaps even sooner than this.
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format_quote Originally Posted by piXie
Re-build what ? Re-build whilst Israel is still there destroying ? Why not stop giving oil to America ?
America would invade, which is probably not in Saudi Arabia's best intrests. And whilst destroying Saudi A may seem like a good thing to some people, the Hajj would be disrupted and there would likely be fighting in Makkah and Madinah. Plus the whole innocent casualties thing, which happens in any war.
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Well, at least the Saudi King is helping them financially ($1 billion is quite a lot!), albeit after most of the damage has been done, with the cost being 1300 lives .
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Great news.. I just hope it reaches them in time before more die due to starvation, etc..
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Thats good news one billion $ seems like a lot of money.
But why doesnt Saudi help defend Gaza and why dont any of the other 50 Muslim majority countries help defend Muslims from the jews. I though when Muslims get kicked out of their land or are oppressed, then you have to retaliate?
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format_quote Originally Posted by Shakoor15
Thats good news one billion $ seems like a lot of money.
But why doesnt Saudi help defend Gaza and why dont any of the other 50 Muslim majority countries help defend Muslims from the jews. I though when Muslims get kicked out of their land or are oppressed, then you have to retaliate?
Because they would loose and possibly end up starting a world war or something. As I said before, good leaders avoid anger-driven rushes, regardless of how much they may care, and move like snakes.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Trumble
It isn't; it's pocket change to some of those guys.
True. The Saudi's could easily give 10 times this much. But, Alhamdulilah it's something.
‘Say: If the ocean were ink wherewith to write out the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted, even if We added another ocean like it.’~Al Qu'raan (18:109)
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format_quote Originally Posted by Trumble
It isn't; it's pocket change to some of those guys.
Nope, Saudia has only $546 billion GDP compared to US $13 trillion, EU $14 trillion, China $7 trillion, Japan $4 trillion, India $2.9 trillion, Germany $2.8 trillion, UK $2.1 trillion just to name few. Saudia is not even in top 20.
Even Iran has more GDP $762 billion.
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