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In October of 1974, with money flooding in from "Oil Scaricity price gouging via OPEC, the Saudi Fund was founded by King Faisal's royal decree - to stimulate economic growth in developing - mostly Muslim - nations. For four years Saudi Arabia donated soft loans totaling $3.1 billion to 51 countries, many of them with the lowest per-capita income bracket on Planet Earth. Almost 60 percent of approved loans earmarked for transport, power and water projects in Muslim countries or countries with high infestations of Islamics attending Saudi-funded Madrassas teaching that Jews and infidels are pigs and apes. By 1979, the Saudi fund amounted to approximately 30 percent of the kingdom's foreign economic aid.
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Saudi Arabia pledged $1 billion in export guarantees and soft loans to Iraq apparently to help them celebrate getting that one-sided agreement with United States.
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But as to Saudi Arabia, they had pledged a total of $1.59 billion in assistance for Lebanon and deposits to the Central Bank of Lebanon in 2006 and pledged an additional $1.1 billion in early 2007. Of that aid, $500 million were intended for reconstruction.
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As for the understandable aid after the 2003 Bam earthquake, Saudi Arabia pledged over $200,000 to the 'quake victims.
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Saudi Arabia is one of the largest providers of aid to the Palestinian people although the area appears to be the "Alcatraz" of the Middle East. People from all over the Middle East and Muslim countries seem to be deported to Palestine to get them out of Tunesia,
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Historically, numerous Arab "strong men" have used the Palestinian cause to build and fortify legitimacy for their rule. In 1977, for example, Muammar Gaddafi was a key player to the establishment of the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front (SCF of course with different initials in Arabic) in protest against Egypt's negotiations with Israel.
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The Front included, Hafez al-Assad, Saddam Hussein and others. As of 2018, at least two of these leaders are dead. Despite voicing good intentions, instead of doing something for Palestine, the members leveraged Palestine's plight to legitimise and sustain their iron-fisted rule over their own countries' peoples.
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Thus Washington must come to understand that every time it vetoes a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli in the Gaza or settlements elsewhere or, it is sabotaging its own efforts to counter extremism.
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After supporting the PLO, in the three-year period from 1987 to 1989 - Saudi Arabia provided $1.8 billion in financial support to the anti-government fighters in Afghanistan which was roughly twice the amount it had given to the PLO in the previous 14 years. Since 2002, Saudi Arabia has given more than $480 million in monetary support to the Palestinian Authority, and has supported Palestinian refugees by contributing to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Through the Arab League, Saudi Arabia has provided more than $250 million for the Palestinians, and pledged $500 million in assistance over the next three years at the Donors Conference in Dec 2007. Unlike aid from other nations, Saudi Arabian aid to Palestinians was not disrupted by the election of Hamas.
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Over 40 years later, the "generosity for the "Klingon-esque" continues as Palestine is still centralized in the Middle East's political future. Iranian diplomat stated recently that the war in Syria is entirely converned and dedicated to preserving Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah's "Axis of Resistance" that hates/confronts/disrespect Israel and the United States while backing the Palestinian ideology.
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Doing a "Search Engine" on Hezbolas' Axis of Resistence got many "hits" on US Democrats who are "resisting" America getting on its feet again with jobs for all, good borders, legal immigration, unthrottled from business regulations booming US economy, re-worked trade deals that help not hurt American farmers, ranchers, and manufacturers,etc.
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The aforementioned GAINS indicate the RESISTANCE is FUTILE, All Your Bases Are Belong To Trump... er... US". (Besides being futile...resistance is shooting Americans in the foot so to speak. Why not HELP and be "bi-partisan" the way Republicans in the past have been bi-partisan. OH, BUT Republicans in the past were RINOs and helped Democrats WIN big again and again because they had no leader with "onions" in his "sack". Now that the USA has an able leader, Democrats want America to return to a THRIVING NATIONAL DEBT, while companies, factories, and JOBS flee the country as if chased by saber-toothed tigers. Socialism was on the rise, running up the National Debt Cowert-Priven style while Bernie Sanders and others who vote Democrat - GLOAT to see America becoming another Argentina. (Argentina was so prosperous in the 1940s that several Nazis fled there spawning that rumor that Adolf himself resided in said country. Did the German Socialist have anything to do with the rise of Socialist Dictator Peron and Evica with her "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"?
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Many of "US Resistance" are leaving their basement rooms and venturing forth for a good paying JOB. Others would rather get paid to carry a sign or do it for free out of dilusionment...but VANDALISM for the Democrat Party...chance to be in PRISON for breaking store windows and burning cars? US Democrats SEEM to be like foreign nationals who RESIST not putting a 275% tariff on Wisconsin dairy products because US Presidents THOUGHT this 275% tariff was "OK"? How much GOOD does a US President have to do for America before "they" give him the benefit of the doubt and BACK HIM A LITTLE BIT? If Trump gives SPEECHES about decreasing unemployment for blacks, Latinos, Asians...AND the TRUMP crowd CHEERS...aren't these 80% at least WHITE PEOPLE cheering for non-whites - getting JOBS? Where is the RACISM in that? Many, many thousands of Trump supporters have attended TRUMP Rallies from Nashville,Tennessee, Wheeling, West Virginia, Southhaven, Mississippi,Mesa, Arizona, Las Vegas, Nevada, Councel Bluffs, Iowa, Johnson City, TN, Charleston, W.Va, Duluth,Minnesota, Richmond, Kentucky, Phoenix, AZ, Fargo, North Dakota, Scottsdale, AZ, Elko, NV, Erie, Pennsylvania, Tampa, Florida, Houston, Texas, Lebanon near Columbus, Ohio, Rochester, Minn., Evansville, Indianna, Mosinee, Wisconsin, late October, 2018, Charlotte, North Carolina, Murphysboro, Illinois, and Ft. Myers, FL.
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NEW YORK, NY featured a news story that President Trump’s support for American farmers has a new symbol: the Trump Campaign’s new limited edition, green and yellow, “Make Our Farmers Great Again" hat which sold out in July of 2018. Occasionally, this hat would cause wonderment at rallies all over America where most sported the RED one with the WHITE LETTERS "Make America Great Again".
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But the Saudi backing of Syria's Bashar al-Assad reveals that the real issue is not Bashar al-Assad staying in power as a strongman leader but ensuring that Syria remains friendly with them. The prominent militant Salafist factions in the Sinai like Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen Fi Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis al-Takfir wal-Hijra, and Jaish al-Islam - have numerous commonalities with the Salafist jihadists in Syria like Jabhat al-Nusra, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and the Ahrar al-Sham Battalions - and their ideologies and political objectives throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Messrs. Sisi and Assad consider themselves as sitting in the same boat with respect to the forces of political Islam that have influenced, much of the course of events since the ‘Arab Awakening’ erupted years ago.
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Asia-wise - after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake was so devastating, Saudi Arabia donated over US$3.3 million, which was more than any other country, and promised an additional $57 million. After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting massive tsunamis, the Saudi government gave $30 million in aid to aid the victims, including a $5 million private donation by King Fahd with Saudis, including citizens, totally donating over $80 million.
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Saudi Arabia also provided 4000 pre-fabricated houses to Pakistan through the Saudi Public Assistance for Pakistan Earthquake Victims (SPAPEV). The houses, which were to be equipped with all required facilities, cost over $16.7 million. The SPAPEV also distributed 230,000 blankets, 150,000 quilts, 10,000 ordinary tents, 2,500 special winterized waterproof tents, 100,000 stoves, 100,000 appropriate food items.
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The Saudi government pledged $230 million to development in Afghanistan.
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It has also pledged $133 million in direct grant aid, $187 million in concessional loans, and $153 million in export credits for Pakistan earthquake relief.
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Seeing the devastation of the 2010 Pakistan floods, Saudi Arabia donated over US $361.99 million for the relief operation, #1 on the list of all donating countries. The Saudi royal family donated $20 million on the day one with Saudi citizens "chipping in" over $107 million which was collected in the first three days. Saudi Arabia started the largest air relief supply network in Pakistan history and also donated two hospitals with 100 beds.
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In the Balkans with its Bosnian War and Bosnia and Herzegovina fighting there were Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian mujahideen, Active Islamic Youth, and Bosnia and Herzegovina–Saudi Arabia relations.
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The Bosnian Muslims received support from Muslim countries and Islamist organizations during the Bosnian War (1992–1995). Military operations, including Al-Qaeda activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, were funded and supported by the Saudi High Commission (SHC), which had been founded by Saudi prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz. Pakistan supported Bosnia while providing technical and military support; Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) allegedly ran an active military intelligence program during the Bosnian War which began in 1992 until 1995. Pakistani General Javed Nasir executed and supervised the program which provided logistics and ammunition supplies to various groups of Bosnian mujahideen during the war. The ISI Bosnian contingent was organized with financial backing provided by Saudi Arabia according to the British historian Mark Curtis.
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A Washington Post article stated that Saudi Arabia provided $300 million in weapons to government forces in Bosnia with the knowledge and tacit cooperation of the United States which is denied by officials.
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Some media reported that the Active Islamic Youth was a front for the Saudi High Commission for Relief and the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation.
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During the Kosovo War and Republic of Kosovo, the Saudi Joint Committee for the Relief of Kosovo used $5 million to finance projects in rehabilitation, foodstuffs, relief materials, educational and religious programs, sponsorship of orphans, health care programs and development. Reports were that freights from Jeddah delivered 400,000 liters of milk, 900 cartons of clothing, 1,000 blankets, 25 water cisterns, medical supplies and surgical appliances such as wheelchairs to Pristina. Saudi citizens donated $20 million to Kosovo in cold hard cash as well as food and medical supplies, and the Saudi Red Crescent sent medical volunteers.
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Since the Kosovo War, there has been an increasing radicalization of Islam in Kosovo. Wahhabism, dominant in Saudi Arabia, has gained a foothold in Kosovo through Saudi diplomacy since Saudi money has paid for new mosques, while Saudi-educated imams have arrived since the end of the war in 1999. During U.N. administration, Saudi Arabian organizations established a cultural foothold in Kosovo when 98 Wahhabist schools were founded by Saudi organizations during UN administration. As a direct result, hundreds of Kosovo Albanians have joined jihad in the Middle East.
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In 2006, the Saudi government donated $10 million in aid to the Horn of Africa, through the World Food Program, with Kenya getting $2 million. Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talal donated $1 million to help feed 3.5 million Kenyans during the devastatingly, dry, drought which had ruined many crops.
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