HALABJA, 18 YEARS ON

...But the EU can manage to scrape together 143 million US greenbacks for Hamas, which is now in charge of the Palestinian Authority. According to this same article, last year, the EU forked over 600 million greenbacks. The US has budgeted $234 million for the Palestinians in 2006, while since 1993, American taxpayers have generously dumped over 1.5 billion into the Palestinian blackhole!

FOR WHAT? So the Palestinians can corner the market on C4?

Why doesn't the EU and the US give a couple hundred million to Halabja? If they are so desperate to throw away money, why don't they throw it away on people who don't kidnap them or destroy their property, as the Palestinians have been doing in the last couple of days? Why don't they use it to build a hospital, with complete outpatient services--occupational, physical, respiratory therapy departments? Why don't they build a research facility alongside? Why don't they designate money to pay the salaries of medical staff and researchers in Halabja? Do they think this will be a waste of money? Not hardly. Everything learned from medical research at Halabja would benefit the entire world for decades to come, not to mention it would relieve one hell of a lot of suffering.

Why do the people of the US and Europe continue to fund terrorism and, at the same time, continue to allow Kurds to die?"
Rasti