Another illustration of why the Israelis should not be giving one penny to the Palestinian Arabs. Why should they pay people who have sworn to destroy them?
From Reuters, with thanks to all who sent this in:
A Hamas source said Tuesday that part of the $100 million in tax revenues transferred by Israel to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas went to pay security services, including members of a Hamas-led force."The [Hamas] Executive Force was a part of the security services which received part of their salaries, just like the other forces," the source said.
During his meeting with Abbas on Sunday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked him to account for how the revenues had been spent.
Israel opposed using the money to pay salaries, particularly to members of Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel, government officials said.
Top aides to Abbas had no immediate comment.
"This flies in the face on what was agreed upon," said an Israeli government official.
What a surprise.
It is not a case of Israel "paying" the PA so much as a case of Israel remitting taxes to the PA collected on the PA's behalf, a set-up that dates back to the establishment of the PA in 1994, which then had no normal beaurocracy set up to carry on the usual mundane tasks of governance. And Israel is doing so largely under international pressure, because, as Barrack Obama tells us, nobody is suffering more than the Palestinians. And certainly they are suffering, but they are largely the authors of their own misfortunes.
Instead, in the 12 years since, the PA now has a dysfunctional thugocracy -- one that still has no financial controls in place -- only Hamas's election split power between two factions: the moderately speedy jihad and the faster jihad. That's the extent of Fatah's "moderation". But now, it appears that Hamas is too moderate for Al-Zawahiri's liking.
Forget Israel - they have unfortunately already given nearly all the money they were being asked for.
This is a reason why American should not give one penny to the Pals. This is direct evidence that transferring financial aid to the Palestinians, even to Abbas (Abu Mazen) will without question make Washington a financier of terrorism - the very thing it is trying to combat.
not one more dime....
Israel is being run by an idiocracy. But then again, so is musch of the West, because everybody just HAS to give money to those poor, oppressed, salt of the earth palestinians. If they don't get any money they might all perish and we simply can't have that, now can we?
I feel Israel should also reconsider selling weapons or helping treacherous multi forked india. Posting the following report in full. indians that knee jerkily whine " boohoo America is selling yadayada to Pakistan....we the indoos are the victims..." please read it. Don't brush it off as communists agenda/pc media. The dhimmindoos empower such toxins and finger point at America as the (sic )" imperialist ". Liarcheat indians would reap what they sow.
" Hizbollah salve on Arab-India wound
JYOTI MALHOTRA
New Delhi, March 13: The Arab world, and not India, should be blamed for the huge psychological distance that has grown between the two regions and for allowing New Delhi to come closer to Israel, Hizbollah representative Ali Fayyad has said.
Refusing to criticise India for voting against Iran’s nuclear programme at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Fayyad pointed out that New Delhi should, in fact, use its influence as a big country to intervene in the stand-off between Iran and the western world.
In an interview on the sidelines of a conference, “War, Anti-Imperialism and Resistance in West Asia”, the Hizbollah representative spoke freely and frankly about the “big mess in the Arab world today”.
“We accuse Arab countries, we hold them responsible for allowing such a big country like India to come close to Israel. Arab states have no effective foreign policy, they have lost many friends in the world,’’ Fayyad said.
“In fact, the Iraqi resistance, increasingly fundamentalist and splintered, should learn from the Hizbollah movement in Lebanon, unify itself and end the American occupation of Iraq,” the Hizbollah representative added.
This is the first time in recent memory that a spokesman for the Hizbollah has been allowed into India.
Considering that Left leaders like Prakash Karat and A.B. Bardhan will speak at the conference tomorrow, it seems as if New Delhi is making a deliberate attempt to balance the perception that the Manmohan Singh government leans heavily in favour of the United States and Israel.
Fayyad didn’t deny that the Hizbollah wielded great influence in West Asia and the Gulf. But he insisted that since it was a Lebanon-based movement, he didn’t want to get involved in the internal politics of Iran.
“Iran’s nuclear programme is an Iranian issue, it has nothing to do with the Hizbollah,” Fayyad added.
On Iran’s perceived determination to abrogate its obligations to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and go nuclear, Fayyad indicated that this was a western conspiracy.
“Today, even the Iranian religious leadership is saying nuclear weapons are horrible and that Iran will not pursue that path.”
At the conference, the audience seemed hugely relieved as it occasionally erupted into a denunciation of America’s invasion of Iraq, its perceived readiness to attack Iran and, generally, what it saw as a wholesome critique of the ugly superpower.
When one of the participants, Kamal Majid from Iraq, pointed out that India had better be warned that after Iran, it would be India’s turn, there was much good-natured cheering — much like a college night out.
To a question from this reporter on choosing between the secular dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and America, Majid pointed out that at least Saddam didn’t destroy whole cities in an attempt to install democracy.
But other participants, like Fawwaz Traboulsi, an intellectual with the Lebanese American University, and Ali Atassi, a journalist in Beirut, pointed out that this was no choice at all.
Fayyad later said the Hizbollah had major differences, “from the root” with groups like al Qaida.
He made no bones about blaming the Arab regimes for the “mess within the Arab world”.
“The Arab world is completely divided on all issues,” whether it was the infighting in Palestine or in Iraq,” the Hizbollah representative added".
http://www.telegraphindia.com//1070314/asp/nation/story_7514274.asp
The morons who run Israel, in their continuous desire to bend over backwards to appease the Islamist, in an attempt to bring about a peace that will never, ever happen, should be summarily and forcibly removed from their respective duties.
If Israel won't take a stand against a terrorist country, one living on their front porch, under the facade of the "family friendly" Fatah party, then who else can be expected to?
Israel are going soft.
Ariel Sharon would not have done this.
It is about time Ehud Olmert was voted out (and possibly bring back Benjamin Netanyahu - much tougher even though allegedly corrupt)
Isreal should never give the Palestinians money, guns, medicine, food, water.
UK Infidel Lover,
" allegedly corrupt ".
Oh forget it ! No one can beat indian pols , bureaucrats and policy makers on corruption front. And with TOTAL impunity. None other than Dawood Ibrahim had in an interview expressed his unalloyed admiration for only one incorruptible Hindu Police or Customs Officer. I am sure even Musharraf might take some action against muslim criminals and corrupt officials there. And he too is disarmmingly quite transparent as one. No wonder indian filmstar (bollywood) feroz khan blustered and thundered in Pakistan:
" india is most secular for muslims" Guffawing out loudly, as hindus in Khanistan (read india) took it as a compliment and patted themselves on their back and continue with heavily entrenched sickularism , raising the status of muslims here as virtual UNTOUCHABLES.
india is a tad worse than Pakistan.
To add to the post above:
indian *charlatan godmen& godwomen* are also mighty UNTOUCHABLES.
Actually Israel should announce that it will be remitting these payments in cash (real money - dollars, euros or Swiss Francs) via airdrop. Then these animals will go nuts and resume killing each other wholesale while trying to claim their share of the fluttering booty. That would make an excellent pay-per-view. Just a thought.