Indonesia's people have donated $15 million to build a hospital in Gaza.
This is real solidarity with a people forced to live in extreme misery under a savage Israeli military siege.
Compare these caring Indonesians with rich Arab states and their playboy billionaires who waste millions of dollars on parties, hosting European entertainers, exploding fireworks and doing other pompous activities.
The dictatorships will still make a show of helping Palestinians if people come to these moneybags and beg, pledge allegiance, kiss their shoulders, hands, knees and toes in abject obeisance.
Arab rulers give funds to Palestinian authorities to buy their loyalty and encourage corruption. The primary aim is not to build strong infrastructure projects. Arab officials also announce aid to Palestinians to increase their prestige in the eyes of their pro-Palestinian populations.
Next to Gaza is Egypt where the military rulers whip up anti-Palestinian sentiments. The junta need not be so hateful in enforcing the siege of Gaza but it seems such propaganda strangely increases the Pharaoh's political stock.
Israel can create concentration camp conditions in Gaza only with the connivance of Arab potentates. And when it unleashes its war machine against Palestinians it also wants to makes sure the injured will not get medial assistance and the dead will not find a place in morgues.
In this context, the project Indonesia's aid has created is worth much more than the price price tag it carries.
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