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Peace Process

World pledges billions to build Arab state on Jews' land


By Stan Goodenough
December 18, 2007

Representatives from virtually the entire international community met in Paris Monday and pledged fully $7.4 billion towards helping create a Muslim Arab state in the heart of the 4,000-year-old Land of Israel.

That nearly 90 nations and global organizations came together for the post-Annapolis "donors' conference" and so generously poured financial assistance out upon the "Palestinians" illustrated the universal stand of the world in favor of the Arabs and against the Jews.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner exulted at the "massive" monetary response, which far exceeded the Palestinian Arabs' expectations.

"We wanted $5.6b., we have $7.4b., not bad," he said, and went on to stress that the primary purpose of the gathering was not the provision of humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of poverty-stricken Arabs, but the founding of "Palestine," an event that can only take place at Israel's expense.

The territory on which the State of Palestine is to be erected is very specifically the land which - the Bible unequivocally states - God gave exclusively and for all time to the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob.

Despite the facts that (a) the Jews have always regarded this land as their own and (b) the Arabs have never had a state here, the international community is determined to finally deprive the former of this land and give it to the latter.

"The real winner today is the Palestinian state," Kouchner told the media, echoing the "Quartet of Powers" special envoy to the Middle East, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who described the event as "not a donors' conference but a state-building conference."

Conference host French President Nicolas Sarkozy lauded the day, saying that "what we must do now is work together before the end of 2008 for the creation of an independent, democratic, viable Palestinian state."

In this Sarkozy is in step with US President George W. Bush and his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who have made birthing Palestine the top foreign-policy goal of Bush's final year in the White House.

Unashamedly pressuring the conference attendees to give big, Rice said their financial support "literally" amounted to the Palestinian Arabs' "last hope."

According to reports, the European Union pledged $630 million, the United States $555 million, Saudi Arabia $500 million, Britain, France and Germany a combined $1.08b, Canada 300 million, Japan $120 million, Australia $45 million and other nations smaller amounts.

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