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Fayyad Warns: No Tax Money - No More PA
Arutz Sheva ^ | 25/11/11 | Elad Benari

Posted on 11/24/2011 2:45:59 PM PST by Eleutheria5

The Palestinian Authority may soon fail financially and cease to exist, its prime minister warned on Thursday.

Salam Fayyad warned that if Israel does not resume the transfer of tax revenues it collects for the PA, the entity will collapse economically and thus cease to exist. Already now, Fayyad claimed, the PA cannot pay salaries to its employees.

Channel 10 News reported that Fayyad made the comments following a meeting with Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. According to the report, Fayyad said that the collapse of PA institutions “is advancing rapidly toward the point at which they will stop operating.”

“We have no money,” Fayyad was quoted as having said. “It’s not about donations or international assistance we receive,” he added, blaming the Israeli decision to freeze the taxes it collects for the PA as being the reason for the impending collapse.

A recent World Bank report, while admitting that the PA is undergoing a financial crisis, said the crisis was primarily due to the lack of donor countries fulfilling their pledges to fork over billions of dollars to Ramallah.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: byebye; fayyad; israel; orelse; pa; palestinianauthority; payus
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To: Venturer

If it wasn’t for the US, Europe and (especially) Israel, the PA wouldn’t exist. They are the welfare queens of the Middle East. None of their Arab “brothers” will bail them out—I don’t think they ever get the funds that are pledged to them. Thanks to their own overreaching at the UN, Israel scapped the Oslo Accord and turned off the $$ spicket. And now the Europeans are too preoccupied with their own problems to care. Of course, I wouldn’t rule out Obama funding them by Executive order. Don’t ask me how he could pull that off w/o Congress, but he seems to be able to get away with just about everything else.


21 posted on 11/24/2011 4:13:20 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Jonty30

I’d be curious to investigate to see how destitute they are. There might be considerable amounts coming under the table to them, and the Israeli embargo on tax receipts may only be symbolic in effect. I very much doubt they will announce that they quit.


22 posted on 11/24/2011 4:16:32 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: rbg81
Of course, I wouldn’t rule out Obama funding them by Executive order. Don’t ask me how he could pull that off w/o Congress, but he seems to be able to get away with just about everything else.

That might be one of the easier scams -- just dip into defense funds.

23 posted on 11/24/2011 4:17:43 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (bloodwashed not whitewashed)
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To: Eleutheria5

Where’s the BAD news in this?


24 posted on 11/24/2011 4:24:14 PM PST by goodnesswins (Being Thankful I was born in the great U S of A!)
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To: rbg81

Don’t ask me how he could pull that off w/o Congress, but he seems to be able to get away with just about everything else.
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Aint that the truth.


25 posted on 11/24/2011 4:48:20 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Eleutheria5

Sounds good to me!!!!

Where is your tagline?


26 posted on 11/24/2011 4:52:12 PM PST by marty60
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh yeah...they are ready for “statehood”. They cant survive a month without being on the dole. What a joke.


27 posted on 11/24/2011 4:56:51 PM PST by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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To: Eleutheria5
The Hildabeaste called Bibi last Monday crying about this. Bibi did not respond. Link
At issue is the approximately $100 million a month that Israel collects in taxes and customs duties on the PA's behalf under the terms of the Oslo Accords. These funds go to pay salaries of PA government employees, in particular members of the PA security apparatus, which is responsible for, among other things, foiling terror attacks against Israel stemming from the West Bank.

On Monday evening, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanded that the money be released. Netanyahu's bureau only reported that the two had spoken about Iran, preferring not to mention Clinton's demand.

On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Netanyahu and also demanded that he immediately release the PA funds. Last weekend, White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon called his Israeli counterpart, Ya'akov Amidror, and explained that the U.S. administration expected the funds to be released immediately. On Monday morning Netanyahu met with Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, who also told Israel to release the tax money.

All these requests came up against a wall of Israeli recalcitrance. Netanyahu made it clear that he did not have a majority in the inner cabinet or in his Forum of Eight to make such a move. He even explained that there would be no decision on the matter until the results were in from the meeting in Cairo between Abbas and the head of Hamas' political bureau, Khaled Meshal, about setting up a Palestinian unity government.

In the background is also Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's threat to dismantle the coalition if the funds were released, and the stubborn opposition to doing so from within the Likud.

This was posted here on FR but I can't find the link.
28 posted on 11/24/2011 5:53:48 PM PST by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: Jonty30
How bout the PA muzzies tap into the billions Yassar Arafat stole from his own people and squirreled away in secret bank accounts.

Ya just gotta love these people. They rabidly rally around causes against Israel or U.S. yet totally looking past crimes committed against their own, by their own.

29 posted on 11/24/2011 6:02:05 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: Eleutheria5

I say tough s**t to all the palimurderers; let them ask the Egyptians and Iranians for financial help; after all, aren’t they their muzzie brothers.
Let them all die in the cold and the dark then let their pedophile prophet sort them out.


30 posted on 11/24/2011 6:21:25 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Eleutheria5

I’m trying to see the downside here.

Nope. Not there


31 posted on 11/24/2011 6:38:12 PM PST by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man. Never trust anyone who hasn't been punched in the face)
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To: Eleutheria5

I had to check if this was satire from AZConservative or something and OMG IT’S NOT~!!!!!!


32 posted on 11/24/2011 7:17:12 PM PST by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed <--- oops, see?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Eleutheria5.
The Palestinian Authority may soon fail financially and cease to exist... if Israel does not resume the transfer of tax revenues...

33 posted on 11/24/2011 7:20:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Eleutheria5

This is a point I occasionally try to make. There will never be an independent West Bank, nor will there ever be an independent Gaza.

All the effort trying to make something so that will never be so only delays the day that we find a solution that could work. More delays mean more treasure wasted and more lives lost, more precious Israelis killed and more deluded arabs killed too.

The west bank has no economy of its own. Separate from Israel, separate from Jordan or Egypt, there is no basis for an independent state either in the west bank region or Gaza. It can only exist while the US and UN and Israel provide it with funds, and if Israel consents to allow its “citizens” access to Israeli markets and jobs.

Its only future is to be absorbed into Israel itself, or to be reabsorbed into its arab neighboring state. As an artificial “independent” entity it has no future and can only be sustained by life support provided by outsiders including Israel itself. It is doomed, in fact, to be what it is at present, a rump state with no economy ruled by outlaws.


34 posted on 11/24/2011 7:30:30 PM PST by marron
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To: marron
Better: The Israelis roundup the Palis and deport them to Somalia to be with their fellow Muslim terrorist brothers. Let the Somalis deal with them.

(Note to PA: No more bribe money to you.)

35 posted on 11/24/2011 9:25:09 PM PST by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Eleutheria5

lol they compare holding funds to waterboarding . Israel should bill them for every rocket they lob , say about 100 million each.
Please cease to exist ... please let it be so.

BTW Thanksgiving isn’t about eating turkey and getting stuffed , although to many secular American now think it is so. Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to YHVH for all the blessing and provisions he has given us .


36 posted on 11/24/2011 9:31:59 PM PST by Lera
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To: Eleutheria5

Too bad. The PA decided to get in bed with Hamas and it abrogated the Oslo accords when it went ahead to push for unilateral statehood. Israel is not going to give money to an outfit that is dedicated to its demise. Israel needs to stand firm.


37 posted on 11/24/2011 9:55:11 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Lera

I would be real thankful right now if G-d provided me with a boot big enough to kick these PA low-lives out of my country and flat on their asses. Any time after their authority ceases to exist would be fine.


38 posted on 11/25/2011 5:27:26 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Diplomacy is war by other means.)
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To: Eleutheria5

PA Low-lives: Anyone in a position of responsibility within the PA.

—Webster’s


39 posted on 11/25/2011 5:35:20 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Diplomacy is war by other means.)
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