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Following crisis: Arab world loses $3 trillion
Doron Peskin
Published: 31.03.09, 11:59
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1. it's kinda expected
ghostq   (03.31.09)
since the stock market in the USA drops again, the arab nation ivested and will continu to invest in $, money talks beyond politics, they had their reservoirs but now like the rest of the world, they will have to learn how to live on a budget, so welcome to the real world. and oh yeah the higher you go the bigger the fall, such platitude but so true.
2. Arabs Should Invest in Long-Term Industries and Brainpower
Nour ,   Palestine   (03.31.09)
3. Perhaps they could
Granny ,   USA   (03.31.09)
sell those cars they had totally encrusted in diamonds. That should make up for some of the "loss."
4. to #2 the big
ghostq   (03.31.09)
money is in oil, easy to earn I dout the main oil arab stats will incorage and invest in any human resources, y give the masses power, that is how it goes, money to very limited people while easy controll the masses.
5. May you lose more, Arabs
Avraham ,   NYC   (03.31.09)
6. Arabs & Jews
Abo Yosef ,   USA   (03.31.09)
God gave Arab and jews many things to make life wounderful. Just Imagine with me that Arab abd Jews use the brain, the money , the location of the middle east , the good weather, the goos food and the culture to have a good life. Arab and Jwews could be living in heaven on earth if they get along and help each others. Is it too much to imagine.....
7. #6
(04.01.09)
it is your arab buddies that do not want to accept, do not want to befriend, do not want diplomatic relationships, trade, sharing with the jews. it is not the other way around.
8. #6 Abu
Terry ,   Chicago, IL   (03.31.09)
Spare me the Nursery Rhymes crap... Palestinians and Jews got along just fine in the Holy Land prior to the 1920's. You don't need to imagine, just remember Palestine before it was plagued by millions of illegal immigrants. That's a cohesive society of Arabs and Jews, not this pathetic excuse we have today.
9. Arab $$$
NCDixon ,   NB Can.   (04.01.09)
I feel sooo bad for them, maybe they could eat some of that oil mixed with a bit of sand.
10. Arabs
Shmuel ,   Jerusalem Israel   (04.01.09)
And just what do Arab countries produce and export aside from oil??
11. Losing 3 Trillion could happen to more deserving people.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (04.01.09)
12. to #6 it will happen
ghostq   (04.01.09)
only 600 years from now when islam will have its non fanatic Renaissance days.
13. Terry-before 1920? You do not know your history
Jo   (04.01.09)
Try the thousand s of immigrants brought by the Egyptian Invasion by the Pasha Ibrahim Ali in the 1830.s. The settlements of Jaffa, in the Negev, the Triangle, all major modern Arab immigrant areas . And violence - long before 1920. They did not always get on and there has always been problems, they only intensified after 1920 with the rise of the nationalist movements, both Jewish and Arab. They always existed in Arab lands. Gaza' Jews were flourishing communities in the 16th-17th centuries, the last to leave were in the 1920s due to Arab riots.
14. Finally, some Good News!
Darian ,   SF   (04.01.09)
We're just getting started with real estate in the US predicted to fall another 20% and our cars parked in the driveways collecting dust. Oh, and don't expect us to defend you anymore so you can fly-off during another invasion to party in discos like you did in Kuwait. You're on your own when the Jihad comes to town and the chickens you raised come home to roost.. We only defend free countries now. Too bad they boycotted Israel. Because of sound fiscal policies, you're looking like one of the best investments around.. Also,can we be alittle nicer to poster #6 Abo? He may be naive but you could use about 250 million more gentleman "Abos" in your region and atleast he has hope. Expect another financial shock wave in about 2 months. I sympathize with them, have you seen the price of gold toilets these days?
15. HooHoo, Arabs lost $3 Trillion?? Now I don't feel so bad....
Dr. L. Brnd ,   San Diego, USA   (04.01.09)
...about my $10,000 IRA holding in Lehman Bros tanking. The hedge funders and subprime mortgagers are thus sort of economic Jihadis paying the Arab world back for 9-11. Why, my IRA loss practically makes me a shaheed! The virgins haven't shown up yet, so I think I'll go crack open an ice-cold Rolling Rock!
16. Arabs only invest in anything that theyTHINK will destroy IL
Alan ,   SA   (04.01.09)
17. my heart goes out to them
zionist forever   (04.01.09)
At least it would but right now its to busy going out to all the Israelis who are suffering thanks to the arabs. As for the arabs themselves instead of building artificial islands and supporting terror things might be different. Lets not forget the most wanted man on earth ( Bin Laden ) is a saudi businessman Next thing for the western world to do is invest money in energy sources that don't involve oil. Buy electric of hybrid cars which limits the amounts of gas you use, build power plants that are nuclear or run on natural recources likes solar or wind whenever practicly possible. Do that and your going to really hurt the arabs and if Israel is involved in helping to develop these new technologies then it benefits Israel at the same time as hurting the arabs and Persia and money helps uranium refinery cascades spin round.
18. 6 - this is part of Israels 1948 charter of independence
zionist forever   (04.01.09)
WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the state if Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in upbuilding of the state, on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent. WE EXTEND our hand of peace and unity to all the naighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the soverign jewish people settled in its own land. the State of Israel is prepared to to its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East. Thats parte of Israels charter of independence drawn up in 1948. Shows what Israels vision was and for the past 61 years we have seen through their actions what the arab vision was.
19. Make huge desalinization projects to bring peace
Lemmings Hotline ,   sd usa   (04.01.09)
The more your deserts will bloom, the more you will need your people back. This is the true solution to the Palestinian homeland issue "...And Avram said to Lot, Let there be no strife between me and thee....And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well watered everywhere... like the Garden of the Lord. Then LOT CHOSE HIM ALL THE PLAIN OF THE YARDEN, AND LOT JOURNEYED EAST AND THEY SEPARATED THEMSELVES, ONE FROM THE OTHER.
20. #8 got study history u got it wrong!
(04.01.09)
21. Greedy Arbs could have given $100 billion to Fakestinians
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (04.02.09)
to make Peace with Jews and resettle them in the desert Arb land. This is $20,000 a head and $200,000 for an average family of 10 for them and their decedents. This could have solved the entire conflict forever in one shot, but nooooooo, Arbs would rather keep this conflict alive. It is because external and conflict is the lifeblood of Arb society and conflict in the Arb world is not seen as a problem that requires a solution. It serves them right to lose 30 times more than that!
22. # 10 Shmuel
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (04.02.09)
Beside oil the Arabs export a very important commodity,called Jihad. oil sustains their Harems,and Jihad,their souls.
23. Darn shame it's not $30 trillion
Jeffrey ,   Boston   (04.02.09)
24. Does that mean?
Christopher ,   Boston, MASS   (04.02.09)
Carter and Clinton won't get their monthly stipend?
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