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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Indeed. Oh wait.
We have provided more funds for Syria than the 'rich' gulf states combined. Our aid budget is dramatically larger than Saudi Arabia's. As we don't discriminate by religion and refuse to provide aid to states that don't share our religious ideals we also have a more complicated job of deciding where it should go.
Maybe we and the many other donor nations with a foreign overseas aid department do have a point and don't simply have them for fun and unnecessary bureaucracy?
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My point was that the Gulf states are providing plenty of aid both financial and military contrary to some peoples belief that they are doing nothing or very little .The gulf states have so far this year donated $362,948,977 USD with a further $296,358,622USD pledged .The UK has donated $474,730,165 with a further $2,311,248 USD pledged as of 6th September 2015.Those figures do not include military aid to the Syrian rebels most of which comes from Saudi Arabia