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Haiti vs Gaza
By Micah Halpern

Tuesday March 30, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

Figure this one out.

According to UN figures:

In Operation Cast Lead in Gaza there were about 1300 victims out of the 1.5 million people residing in Gaza.

In Haiti there were about 230,000 victims out of the 3 million residents.

When it came to receiving aid:

Gaza received $900 million from the United States and $200 million from the UN.

Haiti received $700 million from the US and DOD and $10 million from the UN.
The numbers don't seem to add up.
That's because this isn't about math or logic, it's about diplomacy.

Haiti needs more aid than Gaza, but Haiti is not a cause that pulls at the heartstrings the way the Palestinian cause does.

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4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts


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