Do the Arab states really care about the Palestinians?
For all their talk of standing by the Palestinians, the Arab regimes sure have a strange way of showing it. Despite reaping an oil-driven windfall last year of unprecedented proportions, few Arab states seem willing to dig very deep into their own pockets to back up their concern with cash. Indeed, the hollowness of their pro-Palestinian pronouncements was unambiguously on display last week in Amman, at a meeting of the Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, better known by its acronym of UNRWA. Among the central topics discussed at the gathering was the growing financial crisis...
Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
Tags: Acronym, Advisory Commission, Amman, Arab Regimes, Arab States, Financial Crisis, Palestinians, Pockets, Pronouncements, Strange Way, United Nations, Unprecedented Proportions, Unrwa, Windfall