Rethinking Aid to Palestine - By Nadia Hijab http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/03/rethinking_aid_to_palestine … cc @rezaaslan related to our earlier convo about loans
@PalestineToday Good but Kiva is not aid. It's direct P2P loans w 95% payback. Bypasses PA/Israel goes directly into pockets of shop owners
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@rezaaslan@PalestineToday microloans do NOTHING to change structural conditions that create poverty, which are INSTITUTIONAL in palestine. -
@deetskies@palestinetoday Nor are they meant to my dear. Only politics can do that. -
@rezaaslan@PalestineToday "my dear"? are you kidding me? willing to have this conversation with you but not unless you apologize for that. -
@deetskies@rezaaslan@PalestineToday Reza#BDS has replaced politics vis a vis Isr/Palestine... -
@DianaValerie@deetskies@palestinetoday Yes but#BDS won't end occupation either. There is no 2State solution bc there is no longer 2States -
@rezaaslan@DianaValerie@deetskies Hijab's point is that you need to support efforts to end apartheid if aid/loans are to have any use. -
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@rezaaslan@PalestineToday if this morning i send someone a loan to plant olive trees, what happens to those trees? -
@deetskies@palestinetoday Kiva doesn't end occupation. NOTHING will. It prepares ppl to build stable economy in their micro communities
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@rezaaslan@PalestineToday in most of the world, sure, you can pretend that poverty is not created and maintained by neoliberal economiesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@rezaaslan@PalestineToday but in palestine there is absolutely no question about what (or who) is creating conditions of poverty.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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