Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Woopty Doo: "The Rawabians will apparently own large flat-screen TVs and stylish coffee tables, & their living spaces will be kept mercilessly clean"

 'Stylish!'
"...The Gulf kingdom of Qatar has done more than simply buy into the Rawabi paradigm: It's also funding two-thirds of the project, to the tune of over $600 million. This is enough money to single-handedly finance the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority -- which is effectively broke, thanks to penalties imposed by the Israeli and U.S. governments after Mahmoud Abbas's successful push for a U.N. General Assembly vote on Palestinian U.N. membership, and a freeze in financial aid from Gulf State donors, most notably Saudi Arabia -- for the better part of a year. ..."

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