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Whoa! I work for Mercy Corps, the agency funding this. It is really awesome to see something from work here. I'm obviously biased but I think it is a great pro

Whoa! I work for Mercy Corps, the agency funding this. It is really awesome to see something from work here. I'm obviously biased but I think it is a great program that is really helping the people of Gaza. Additionally the focus on women and helping them enter the work force is really great. As jacalata said they are doing a fundraiser that ends in about 20 hours if you want to help out: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-gaza-s-only-startup-accelerator https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-gaza-s-only-startup-...

seivan 12y ago
Well, with 200 million euro annually pumped there by Sweden alone I'd be surprised if we didn't see stuff like this. While now we can't feed Syrian refugees because the UN is out of money. Not to mention the genocide on Christian Arabs, or kidnappings for sex-slavery of over 7000 female Yezidis by Arabic and Somalian islamists largely from Europe. But hey... lets riot and collect money for Gaza.
- bjourne 12y ago
  Actually 282m SEK 2014 or about 30m € in total aid to the Palestinian territories: http://www.sida.se/English/press/current-topics-archive/2014/10-million-sek-to-gaza/ http://www.sida.se/English/press/current-topics-archive/2014... So you're off by a factor of 10 but it's still a lot.
  - seivan 12y ago
    Sweden donated 1.37 billion SEK 2007. That makes approx 200 million Euro. My bad for assuming it had continue to be that large, I assumed because recent recognition. http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/sverige-okar-bistandet-till-palestina_693023.svd http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/sverige-okar-bistandet-... Additional reading http://motbilder.blogspot.se/2007/12/dns-mrkliga-rkning-om-palestinskt.html http://motbilder.blogspot.se/2007/12/dns-mrkliga-rkning-om-p...
    - bjourne 12y ago
      That's for the whole of Palestine while you implied it was all for Gaza. 1.37 billion SEK = 143 million EUR which you can check for yourself in two seconds using the google query "1.37 billion SEK in EUR" so there is no excuse for giving a wrong number. This for the period 2007-2008 so two years not one. I think it's classified as "emergency relief" (there was a war going on), the running year-to-year aid is much lower.

seivan 12y ago

Well, with 200 million euro annually pumped there by Sweden alone I'd be surprised if we didn't see stuff like this. While now we can't feed Syrian refugees because the UN is out of money. Not to mention the genocide on Christian Arabs, or kidnappings for sex-slavery of over 7000 female Yezidis by Arabic and Somalian islamists largely from Europe. But hey... lets riot and collect money for Gaza.

bjourne 12y ago
Actually 282m SEK 2014 or about 30m € in total aid to the Palestinian territories: http://www.sida.se/English/press/current-topics-archive/2014/10-million-sek-to-gaza/ http://www.sida.se/English/press/current-topics-archive/2014... So you're off by a factor of 10 but it's still a lot.
- seivan 12y ago
  Sweden donated 1.37 billion SEK 2007. That makes approx 200 million Euro. My bad for assuming it had continue to be that large, I assumed because recent recognition. http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/sverige-okar-bistandet-till-palestina_693023.svd http://www.svd.se/opinion/brannpunkt/sverige-okar-bistandet-... Additional reading http://motbilder.blogspot.se/2007/12/dns-mrkliga-rkning-om-palestinskt.html http://motbilder.blogspot.se/2007/12/dns-mrkliga-rkning-om-p...
  - bjourne 12y ago
    That's for the whole of Palestine while you implied it was all for Gaza. 1.37 billion SEK = 143 million EUR which you can check for yourself in two seconds using the google query "1.37 billion SEK in EUR" so there is no excuse for giving a wrong number. This for the period 2007-2008 so two years not one. I think it's classified as "emergency relief" (there was a war going on), the running year-to-year aid is much lower.