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The Intercept

by Stephen Semler
May 11 2023, 6:00 a.m.

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been the world’s biggest weapons dealer, accounting for about 40 percent of all arms exports in a given year. In general, these exports are funded through grants or sales. There are two pathways for the latter category: foreign military sales and direct commercial sales.

The U.S. government acts as an intermediary for FMS acquisitions: It buys the materiel from a company first and then delivers the goods to the foreign recipient. DCS acquisitions are more straightforward: They’re the result of an agreement between a U.S. company and a foreign government. Both categories of sales require the government’s approval.

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/11/united-states-foreign-weapons-sales/

Palestinians have been mourning the loss of their homeland since 1948, but Nakba Day, an annual day of commemoration inaugurated by the Palestinian Authority, is a relatively new addition to the calendar.
"Nakba" is just the Arabic word for disaster. After 1948, with the definite article “al” (i.e., al-Nakba), it became the proper name for the displacement of hundreds of thousands of persons and the establishment of a Jewish state following the Israeli War of Independence.
Yet for decades, no day was singled out as a day of commemoration, though some Palestinian Israelis took advantage of the national holiday on Israeli Independence Day to visit their lost homes or deserted villages within Israel.
This would change in 1998. As Israelis were preparing an elaborate celebration for the nation's 50th anniversary, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat decided that Palestinians should mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba as well. He declared May 15, the day after Israeli independence in 1948, as Nakba Day.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-05-15/ty-article-magazine/a-brief-history-of-nakba-day/00000180-d635-d572-aba5-debd6f320000

God1000:
Are you his mouthpiece? he's a sexual predator

Ilamina:
Just recently

They never had before

The evolving of EU to single market and single currency, have been a trend most sub-regions like [...] AU, ECOWAS,
[...] are desiring to attain. They all owned European Union credit!

eepeepook:
Hope has never achieved anything tangible. How many skyscrapers has mere praying built?

eepeepook:
Not when 63% of the total population lives in poverty. We’re still consumers rather than producers. The big earners are foreign companies like Chinese phone makers flooding our market with cheap, unregulated devices.

eepeepook:
An asset to achieving what exactly? We've possessed a huge population since 1990, what good has it done us? 1990 was 33 years ago. Any forward-thinking entity would experience positive changes in 10 or a little more number of years.

eepeepook:
Nigeria is no different from the man born in poverty who curses himself into the situation with his every action. We will never grow economically if our birth rate remains high and the young stay unemployed. Keep dreaming.