Palestinians online: "Anywhere is better than Somalia. They are a starving people"

[Atoosh]

This @Atoosh sounds demented and filled to the brim with resentment.

Palestinians/Gaza received hundreds of billions of dollars of aid and funding by foreign governments. They were recognized as legitimate sovereign state and entity by 146 of the 193 UN member states.

The EU, U.S., UN, and Gulf states provided billions in aid, funding infrastructure, education, and humanitarian efforts.

Qatar invested in infrastructure projects and energy supplies in Gaza. Turkey funded business development and housing projects. Billions in foreign aid helped sustain education, healthcare, and infrastructure.

They had trade with Isreal, European Union and other Arab regional states, to import and export. There was even some joint industrial zones were planned between Israel and Palestine.
The EU granted the Palestinian territories preferential trade access, allowing duty-free exports of agricultural and industrial goods. Palestinian products had preferential access to Arab League markets under the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement (GAFTA). Jordan and Egypt were key trade partners.

UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) funded and provided widespread access to education for Palestinians, including refugees.

This is very unlike the case with Somalia. Somaliland was unrecognized and diplomatically isolated(blocked from international financial institutions and trade deals) and Somalia/Mogadishu was sanctioned and blocked from foreign trade, investments with Financial restrictions put on it by UN security council and US. The last of which was removed from 2020.

The aid Somalia received by the USAD was minuscule crumbs for relief efforts that was dwarfed by the 1.9 billion Somalis diaspora sent each year.

Most of the investment and funding Somalia received was from remittances from the Somali diaspora. That played a dual role as investment vehicle and keeping the country afloat until domestic production and local business activity resumed post 2012-2015.

Somalia , whether it be Mogadishu, Puntland and Hargeisa's wealth and development is almost entirely self-generated by Somalis with not much support from foreign aid. Same thing with their institutions like education is privately supported by communities and not UN and government aid that create widespread universal primary & secondary education in Palestine and access to international scholarships, allowing for higher education mobility for Palestinians.

It's only with the return of the educated diaspora that the educational institutions are now developing in Somalia with better quality.

95% of education, health care, energy, infrastructure projects and housing in the country are funded by private Somali investors and banks/community.

If anything ya'll should be singing the praises of Somalis and be amazed. It actually shows how much support we have poured into our people , when the whole world abandoned us.

 

[Jiron]

may allah ease the pain and suffering of the people of gaza, remember we want Palestinians to live in peace in their lands. let us avoid negativity and always focus on our humanity

 

[tyrannicalmanager]

muh one ummah

 

[Sol]

Why does this warrant 15 pages?

 

[tyrannicalmanager]

Why does this warrant 15 pages?

Because certain people needed a reason to curse Palestinians.

 

[reer_ugaas_hussein]

Because certain people needed a reason to curse Palestinians.

This whole discourse is crazy and just shows how zero moral principles some people have, like even if Palestine wasn‘t religiously important nor even muslim, why would you support the oppression of a group of people just out of spite because one of them insulted you. So all these people would have supported the apartheid regime in South Africa too if they heard one of the blacks there insulting Somalis?