re: road map and aid:
If we want to have any influence on the PA, we have to channel it through them, and the links I posted yesterday said clearly, that the plan is to channel all aid through the PA, and shut off all money flows to any other competing Palestinian organizations.
The point of aid, is to bribe governments (like the PA) into doing our bidding. The point of aid has nothing to do with improving conditions of life for Palestinians (or Egyptians, or any other country that gets aid). So it only works if it is channelled through the corrupt "aided" governments, so they can take their cut and dole it out to their friends, thus cementing their authority.
As an example: Africa gets about $50B in aid per year, from all sources. This aid is used as a lever, to do things like prise open African markets, so U.S., European, and Japanese companies can sell there. Meanwhile, high tariff barriers are maintained, by those wealthy countries, against the agricultural products of Africa. The EU, US, and Japan subsidize their own farmers, over $100B/y each (that's over $300B/y total), and then dump the resulting excess production on world markets at far below cost. Farmers in poor countries, facing trade barriers and artificialy-depressed prices in a distorted global market, can't sell. And this system is maintained, by the aid given by wealthy governments, given directly to corrupt governments in Africa and elsewhere. Oxfam had a report recently that estimated Africa loses $100B/y in lost sales (that's twice the aid they receive), by these UnFreeTrade practices. |
