https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/04/palestine-ranks-better-than-most.html
But say this for the Palestinians: they have managed to convince almost everyone that the world owes them a living. Though they are far richer than many others, they continue to receive billions of dollars in aid from donors who give both directly to the Palestinian Authority, and indirectly, through UNRWA. Unlike people in 100 other countries, who never know what the next year’s national income will look like, the Palestinians can always count on billions in aid, year after year. Only the “State of Palestine” is in that position. Not Niger, not Chad, not Ethiopia or India or Jamaica. Only “Palestine” — uber alles.
If the Palestinians are doing this well, think of how much better they would be doing if only they did not suffer from colossal corruption by their leaders. Just two leaders of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal and Mousa bin Marzouk, have each managed to help themselves to $2.5 billion from the aid donors intended to be provided to the people of Gaza. And in the West Bank, President-for-Life Mahmoud Abbas has, with his sons Tarek and Yasser, managed to accumulate a family fortune of $400 million. And both in Gaza and in the Palestinian Authority, hundreds of loyalists of the top leaders have been allowed to help themselves as well to a few million dollars apiece. It adds up. A billion here, and a billion there, and as Senator Everett Dirksen famously said, it begins to add up “to real money.”The UN Human Development Reports of the UN Development Program defines a “Multidimensional Poverty Index” (MPI.)
The MPI looks beyond income to understand how people experience poverty in multiple and simultaneous ways. It identifies how people are being left behind across three key dimensions: health, education and standard of living, comprising 10 indicators. People who experience deprivation in at least one third of these weighted indicators fall into the category of multidimensionally poor.
The MPI score is based on these metrics:
How do Palestinians do?
Pretty good, actually.
While Western nations are not listed in this chart, the Palestinians are shown to be in far better shape than over 100 countries that are listed. I call out some of them.
Anti-Israel activists like to pretend that Palestinians have “no choice” but to turn to terror, and one of the reasons they like to trot out is how impoverished they are.
If that was the case, then why are we not seeing the same support for terror in the 100 countries who have a higher poverty score than they do?
Until COVID, Palestinians had also been steadily getting better scores every year in UNDP’s Human Development Index, but even after a brief setback they are ranked “high” in various metrics….
But say this for the Palestinians: they have managed to convince almost everyone that the world owes them a living. Though they are far richer than many others, they continue to receive billions of dollars in aid from donors who give both directly to the Palestinian Authority, and indirectly, through UNRWA. Unlike people in 100 other countries, who never know what the next year’s national income will look like, the Palestinians can always count on billions in aid, year after year. Only the “State of Palestine” is in that position. Not Niger, not Chad, not Ethiopia or India or Jamaica. Only “Palestine” — uber alles.
