How cheap can the Arabs be to their brothers in trouble?
VIENNA, Austria – OPEC’s humanitarian arm said Friday it has approved $1.2 million in aid to Lebanon.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ Fund for International Development said the grant was intended to provide essential relief supplies and support emergency operations.
The money will be channeled through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, it said.
Wow. That’s four cents for every barrel of oil in a single day of the OPEC daily quota.
The mind reels at the overwhelming generosity of the oil-producing Arab world (and the American-hating producing Venezuela) to the suffering in Lebanon.
By contrast, the Jewish Federation is trying to raise $18 million for the month of July to move all Israelis—Jew, Muslim, and Druze—south out of reach of Hezbullah’s rockets (which were paid for by Iranian oil profits). And gee, they’re getting the money from ordinary people, not OPEC billionaires.
File this one under: Better than you.