Supposedly, Arab devotion to the Palestinian cause is a major factor in the Middle East. But U.S. officials had to beg the United Arab Emirates to donate a paltry $42 million—an amount, one might suggest jokingly, equivalent to the royal families’ expense account for lunches—to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
So don’t get carried away by this latest “generosity.” In 2009, the UAE gave the PA a mere $173.9 million. So far this year, the UAE has provided…$42 million.
Arab state contributions to the PA, never high, are plummeting. During an average year, the total donation of all Arab states and institutions combined to the PA has tended to be about one-eighth that of the United States alone. The Saudis have been particularly unwilling to give. Between January and August 2009, they sent $241.1 million—not serious money by Saudi standards.
So far in 2010? A grand total of $30.6 million.
To put this in perspective, following the Gaza flotilla episode alone, Obama pledged an additional $400 million in U.S. aid for the PA. American taxpayers have to make up for the money not paid by oil-rich Arab governments.
the question for Hillary Clinton if she says the status quo is unsustainable is for who is the status quo unsustainable? If we have become the primary financial line for terrorists I presume it isn't sustainable for America at all. Lucky for Israel they listen to what the Arabs says in Arabic.
