Talk:International aid to Palestinians

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Hey, wait a sec...
Where are the donations from the other Arab states, like Saudi Arabia or Iran? Shouldn't they be listed? --Brasswatchman 03:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

How does the phrase
" though U.S. funding to Israel alone far exceeds the level of combined international assistance to Palestinians" offer anything extra to an article specifically about Palestine? Seems like a politically inclined statement without any real use in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amarrvictor (talk • contribs) 14:29, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

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Some material copied from Palestinians page

 * "The OPT is the world’s tenth biggest recipient of per capita aid accumulated over the years 1994-2011. The top nine (starting from the highest) are: Palau, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands, Federal States of Micronesia, New Caledonia, Israel, French Polynesia, Tonga and Cape Verde. It is of special interest that Israel is the sixth biggest recipient of per capita aid, positioned above the OPT. The data are from the World Bank, 2015 and Sharp, 2014 Shir Hever 'How Much International Aid to Palestinians Ends Up in the Israeli Economy?,' Aid Watch  September 2015 p.1. n.1"
 * "An article by Nikki Tillekens in 2010 conducted the first estimate of this figure. By tracing the connection between the trade deficit between the OPT and Israel on the one hand, and international aid to the OPT on the other, Tillekens found a 71% correlation between aid to the OPT and the trade imbalance between the OPT and Israel. In other words, aid money is used to purchase goods and services from Israeli companies. The sustained trade surplus Israel enjoys with the OPT, and the fact that the trade surplus is financed with foreign currency, has contributed substantially to Israel’s economic stability, and therefore allowed the Israeli government to invest ever-increasing resources in the occupation of the OPT (Swirski, 2008).'p.2"
 * I might add that by Hever's calculation 72% of international aid ends up in the Israeli economy. If so, then the balance sheet figures omit several things, which include (a) often 30-35% of aid promised is all they get, and, since the aid distribution is regulated by Israeli overseers, much of it may simply be indirect aid to Israel. Nishidani (talk) 11:36, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 2 January 2017
In the section "Major donors", all the figures given are incorrect because they confuse dollars with millions and billions of dollars. The sentence starting "In 2013 UNRWA received 294,023,401 millions of dollars from USA, 216,386,867 millions of dollars from the EU, 151,566,702" should read "In 2013 UNRWA received $294,023,401 from USA, $216,386,867 from EU, $151,566,702 from Saudi Arabia"... (with all the figures changed in the continuing sentence.

Or it could be changed to be denominated in millions of US dollars - "In 2013 UNRWA received $294 million of dollars from USA, $216.4 million from the EU, $151.6 million from Saudi Arabia"

I think the second version is more readable.

You'll also want to change "1,091,649,846 billions of dollars in the year of 2013" as I think that may be more than the GDP of the whole planet.

Jeff Veit 80.5.131.13 (talk) 00:27, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Thank you for your contribution! st  170  e  01:15, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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The US is the largest contributor to UNRWA, not the EU
The article states that the EU is the largest contributor to UNRWA. This is not true. The United States of America is the largest contributor.

With regards to UNRWA, the United States is indeed the most prominent donor to the organization. In 2016, according to UNRWA's donor charts, the United States gave $152 million directly to the agency, and contributed another $216 to projects related to the agency's work. Overall, the United States is listed as providing $368 to UNRWA's operations, about a quarter of the agency's entire budget. See: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/fact-check-how-much-funding-does-u-s-actually-give-palestinians-1.5630320 Bellaindunwoody (talk) 22:26, 26 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ✔️ The US is already listed multiple times in the UNRWA section as the biggest contributor. EggRoll97 (talk | contribs) 01:17, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

the Mavi Marmara
some self righteous individual took offense when I fixed his broken link about the Mavi Mamara Freedom Flotilla vessel by pointing it to the best mention of it I could find in WP (the ships section in Gaza Freedom Flotilla). The individual in question then reverted the article back to his own broken link. I find this approach ... lacking. I have reverted the revert and replaced the link - again - by a more general one. Wefa (talk) 19:17, 5 September 2018 (UTC)