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To: Doug R who wrote (877)	2/8/2004 11:59:10 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Saddam Hussein is being generous to Palestinian families At least 500 Palestinian families received financial aid from the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. This information was published in the Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post, with reference to sources in the Palestinian autonomy. The newspaper wrote that the sums of the payments varied between $500 to $25 thousand per family. This help was previously rendered only to Palestinian families that lived in the West Bank of Jordan and in the Gaza Strip. The newspaper told the story of Ali Hiyazi, who lives in the Jerusalem area of Beit Hanoun. Ali is the father of five children. He recently went on a ?pilgrimage¦ to Baghdad. When he came back from the Iraqi capital, he went to the fiscal department of the Jerusalem government and paid his debt. Then he went to the local energy company and paid for the electric power that he consumed as well. Ali (53) spent 30 years of his life working as a teacher in a private Arab school. He stopped paying his bills when the school started delaying his paychecks. Palestinian teachers acted like their Russian colleagues: they complained to the education ministry of the autonomy, the ministry did not respond, and they wrote letters to Yassir Arafat. Two months passed, but still there was no answer. Ali was lucky. He watched a television program, which told the story of how Israel accused Saddam Hussein on paying tens of thousands of dollars to the Palestinian victims of the intifada and to suicide bombers' families. The teacher perceived that report as an instruction to act. Ali gathered his colleagues, and they wrote a letter to the ?Baghdad sultan,¦ asking him for help. Hussein responded, contrary to Arafat. The Palestinian teachers were invited to visit Baghdad in a month, and an Iraqi official gave each of them a check for seven thousand dollars. The Jerusalem Post wrote that the Iraqi leader proclaimed the policy of help to ?steadfast Palestinians,¦ even to those with Israeli IDs. Ali had such an ID, by the way, which entitled him to live in Israel. Palestinians know that it is only Saddam Hussein who will help them v neither America, nor the UN, nor Yasser Arafat. Palestinian sources informed that there are more and more families writing letters to the Iraqi leader, asking him for financial help. Iraq finds time and money to deal with those requests, in spite of the fact that the USA is getting ready to start the war against it. Needless to mention that Saddam-s ratings among Palestine is growing every hour. A taxi cab driver said that Iraq paid for his dental operation, which a dentist from Baghdad performed on him. This is what Americans should think about when they draw up their plans to overthrow Saddam Hussein. If they throw all their plans in the bin and leave this man alone, maybe he will be able to settle the major Mideast problem some day. Palestinians are writing letters to Saddam Hussein. Sergey Borisov PRAVDA.Ru english.pravda.ru

To: Doug R who wrote (877)	2/8/2004 12:07:37 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Palestinians get Saddam funds Ceremony to award cheques under a painting of Arafat and Saddam Iraq regularly parades volunteers to "liberate Palestine" Saddam Hussein has paid out thousands of dollars to families of Palestinians killed in fighting with Israel. Relatives of at least one suicide attacker as well as other militants and civilians gathered in a hall in Gaza City to receive cheques. "Iraq and Palestine are in one trench. Saddam is a hero," read a banner over a picture of the Iraqi leader and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the ceremony. With war looming in the Middle East, Palestinian speakers condemned the United States and Israel, which dismissed the ceremony as support for terrorism. Saddam's payments $10,000 per family $25,000 for family of a suicide bomber $35m paid since September 2000 PALF figures One by one, at least 21 families came up to receive their cheques from the Palestinian Arab Liberation Front (PALF), a local pro-Iraq group. A Hamas suicide bomber's family got $25,000 while the others - relatives of militants killed in fighting or civilians killed during Israeli military operations - all received $10,000 each. Another banner in the hall described the cheques as the "blessings of Saddam Hussein" and PALF speakers extolled the Iraqi leader in fiery speeches. "Saddam Hussein considers those who die in martyrdom attacks as people who have won the highest degree of martyrdom," said one. The party estimated that Iraq had paid out $35m to Palestinian families since the current uprising began in September 2000. Saddam's avowed support for the Palestinians, and his missile attacks on Israel during the Gulf War, have won him wide backing in the territories. Saddam's 'kindness' Israel condemned the Iraqi handouts as funding for terrorism. "It shows that Saddam is involved in every activity that is terrorism and murderous and leads to instability in the Middle East," said Amira Oron, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry. Relatives at the ceremony Saddam is the only one that has stood with us Tahseen Maghani father of dead Hamas fighter However, families at this week's ceremony said the money would be used to rebuild homes destroyed by Israel and bring up orphaned children. "Saddam supports the families of the martyrs, not terrorism," said Ahmed Sabah, 69, whose son was killed by an Israeli missile strike in December. "It is a shame that Arabs stand silent as America prepares to occupy Iraq." Israel blamed Mr Sabah's son Mustafa for bomb attacks on three Israeli tanks which killed seven soldiers in 2002. Tahseen Maghani, whose Hamas militant son Karam was killed trying to infiltrate the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, said he would use the money to plant crops and build a house. "These are tough times for Saddam but his kindness will help us a lot," he said. "Saddam is the only one that has stood with us." Sabri Salama, a relative of two Palestinian teenagers killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza in January, said America was "the chief terrorist state". Ibrahim Zanen, a PALF spokesman, said he hoped the ceremony would not be the last. news.bbc.co.uk