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Fierce battles as rebels fight to hold Aleppo
Syria foes ‘advance’ in battle-wracked Aleppo
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US ‘wasted’ $200m on training Iraqi police
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Robert Fisk: For the minorities, even neutrality is unsafe
30 July 2012 12:00 AM
So today, amid Aleppo’s torment, let us remember minorities. The Palestinians of Syria, more than half a million of them, and the 1.5 million Christians – the largest number of whom live in Aleppo – who are Syrian citizens and who now sit on the edge of the volcano.
Romney offends with Israel-Palestine remarks
Speech puts Israel’s accomplishments down to ‘power of at least culture and a few other things’
Romney drew a comparison between Israel’s economic success and the Palestinians’. “As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000 dollars, and compare that with the GDP per capita just across the areas managed by the Palestinian Authority, which is more like $10,000 per capita, you notice such a dramatically stark difference in economic vitality,” he said.
In fact, according to the World Bank, Israel had a per capita gross domestic product of about $31,000 in 2011, while the West Bank and Gaza had a per capita GDP of just over $1,500.
