Simple arithmetic—merely divide $3B (Hat tip LGF) by the cost of a bomb belt, then multiply that by the number of Israelis killed by the average homicide bomber:
GLENEAGLES, Scotland - World leaders wrapping up an economic summit shaken by terrorism agreed Friday on an "alternative to the hatred"—aid packages for the Palestinian Authority [...]Blair said the Palestinian aid package would total $3 billion "in the years to come." The British leader said the assistance was designed "so that two states, Israel and Palestine, two peoples and two religions can live side by side in peace."
Strange, isn't it? The same world leaders who were "shaken by terrorism," immediately pledged $3 billion to some of the most virulent terrorists in the world (or to—as Charles Johnson puts it [LGF link provided above]—"the society that, perhaps more than any other, breeds and fuels the terrorist ethos").
The startling apathy among Palestinian leadership to genuinely improve the lot of fellow Palestinians is only exceeded by—or perhaps in direct proportion to—their exceeding thirst for killing Jews.
Thanks to generous G-8 funding, Israeli ambulances should have much brisker work for many, many years to come. Good going, G-8 knuckleheads. The $3 billion might as well have been funneled to al-Queda.
In other G-8 sagacity...
[A]id to Africa would rise from the current $25 billion to $50 billion.
All of this in light of recent news:
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 25 (UPI) -- Nigeria's past rulers stole or misused some $400 billion during the last four decades of the 20th century ...
If the G-8 spent the first $49,999,000,000 in addressing rife corruption by African leaders, the last $1,000,000—dedicated to straight aid—would relieve more suffering than the $400,000,000,000 previously squandered. Bono, where are you when we need you?