From: Adam 

Geo wrote:
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:44cda95b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>> Israel is on about the only land in the middle east that doesn't have
> oil
>>> yet they appear to be doing much better than those with far more
> valuable
>>> resources. Perhaps it has something to do with people and not the land?
>> It has quite a bit to do with $10 billion a year in overt and who knows
> much
>> much in covert subsidies.
>
> So who's was stopping all those oil rich countries from sending money to
> arafat for the past 20 years?
>
> Geo.
>
>
They have but others prevented the money being spent on proper anti-tank,
anti-aircraft & artillery rockets.


Adam

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