Maybe the PA officials can draw on the stolen money that they have in Swiss bank accounts.
Excellent news.
Amazing to me to find out that the enemy of Israel depends on funds from Israel to exist.
Why didn’t the Israeli’s cut off funds years ago?
The court of world opinion is going to divide along party lines and the shortest link to the next check.
How’s a bout each time a single missile is sent over from Gaza the tax remittance fund is set back to zero...and remains at zero for a month.
And while we are at it turn off the fu#king electricity and gas!
At last some good news! Happy Thanks Giving everyone.
If so, let's try cutting off the democraps.
I’m trying to see a downside here. Really, I am.
Look, let’s just cut through the bulls**t once and for all. Isn’t it time to just stamp out these cockroaches and put an end to their....and our.....misery?
Perhaps they need to tax themselves.
Perhaps they need to get aid from the Greeks
For some strange insane reason this bit of information just tickles my funny bone.
Where’s the BAD news in this?
Sounds good to me!!!!
Where is your tagline?
Oh yeah...they are ready for “statehood”. They cant survive a month without being on the dole. What a joke.
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.This was posted here on FR but I can't find the link.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.
I’m trying to see the downside here.
Nope. Not there
I had to check if this was satire from AZConservative or something and OMG IT’S NOT~!!!!!!
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.
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 .