Posted on 01/30/2006 4:58:13 AM PST by vimto
Times Online January 30, 2006
Hamas faces cash crisis, as Israel stops tax funds By Sam Knight and agencies
A member of the Palestinian police and Fatah supporter forces his way into the Gaza parliament, vowing that Hamas would not take control of security (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty)
The price of Hamas's victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections started to become clear today as Israel refused to hand over nearly £25 million in monthly tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority.
As unrest escalated on the streets - with 30 Fatah-supporting policemen briefly storming the parliament building in Ramallah this morning - the acting Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said he would not transfer monthly customs duties to the Palestinian Authority because he feared it would finance terrorism.
"It must be made very clear, we are not going to transfer funds which could finance terrorist attacks against our civilians," he said. Hamas is responsible for more than 60 suicide bomb attacks against Israel.
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I guess i'm surprised more that mad Hamas would even accept money from ANY infidel country.
I can never understand why Israel or the United States would EVER give money to the Palestinians in the first place,. I guess thats why I am not in government.
Hama's statments since the elections have been so full-blowed gonzo looney that I don't see how anyone in the world would be dumb enough to think Israel has any choice here.
The Palistinians got their chance to speak, and they asked for Hamas. If they want to spend their entire lives in poverty, chaos and war, so be it. What they need is a Ghandi, but all they want are Zarqawis.
Maybe they can start kidnapping fellow Arabs for bribe money to run the Palestinian Authority......
So many promises that Hamas has to deliver on and no money to govern. They're collective butts are in a real rut ....darn Syria doesn't collect taxes from the Lebanese anymore, so no money there....Saddam is out of Iraq, so no money there......Iran might help but it looks like they're heading for a boycott .....the money might run out there. Jordan is one of the poorer nations and no oil wells ...not much money there.
Hmmm, who did we forget?....oh, ya.... We'll just stir the pot in Saudi Arabia to see how much we can squeeze out of them. I'm sure they'll want to help.
Iran will start bankrolling them. We don't dare stop buying their oil.
Isn't that the truth? I'm reading this and thinking WTH . . .
There must be some name for this psychological disorder in one of those big books somewhere . . . you know, where you become hell bent on destroying the hand that feeds you.
Anyway, not that Hamas is a "state," cool. It can be treated to all the usual behavior-modification techniques the civilized nations use on the uncivilized nations. And if that doesn't work, war and total destruction.
Now that the Palestinians have made it official that they are going to graduate from ambiguous street gang status to STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM, the West now has a clear and umambiguous enemy.
Keep it up, Hamas, and the Eagle will fly.
Gee, why doesn't Hamas talk to Fatah?
Despite the inherent instability and insecurity we feel now, this experience is the product of social and political genius! The free world has offered Palestinians the opportunity to accept or reject peace. This is historic because without their tacit rejection of peace it would be unethical to slaughter them in WWII fashion, in my opinion. What is being done for Palestinians today was not plausible for the Axis powers of WWII. The logic behind democratization is sound whether democracy prevents this looming war or not. Those who made the free and fair elections in Palestine possible are heroes of the highest order. It is right that democracy be pursued by us for our enemies because we know democracy has the potential to mitigate social chaos and prevent the war that looms. Just because the potential of democracy may not be realized in this case does not make democratization efforts wrong. Of course there are other factors…
If Hamas’s initial condition is that it will not recognize its neighbor and our ally Israel as a legitimate country with whom it will deal diplomatically and peacefully, then war is in Hamas’s future. It will be an historic war. It will be a war that spreads to those nations who come to defend Hamas. It will be a war that serves as a lesson to future generations. It will be a war Hamas and their electorate will lose spectacularly. After the war there will be a new set of initial conditions for the nations that lose. Those initial conditions will most likely be the conditions enjoyed by Germany and Japan after World War II. God help our enemies if that’s what they are asking for.
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Yep, very well said.
I would guess it was more a good will issue towards the average Pali. Now that the largess is being cut off due to their electing a purely (vs. only 99-44/100 pure) terror-driven government, they will start to pay even more dearly and some might actually see who the real good guys are. Probably not enough to make a real difference, but it does open the possibility of a really neat 3-way civil war between Fatah, Hamas, and the Palis in the street. Add Iran and Syria into the mix and things might really get interesting in the next few months.
The word you want begins with an "I"
You got it right. A win by the Palestinian Authority would have been just more of the same low grade constant terrorism, We should recognize Hamas and establish full diplomatic relationship with them. They are now the official power. If they continue their terrorism it will then be official state terrorism. Israel will have every right to push them into the sea. If they truly want peace (which I doubt) give them Gaza and the West Bank. Israel should go back to the 1967 boundaries and give Hamas the opportunity to live in peace or face the consequence of a greater Israel that includes Gaza and the West Bank. The formula is peace for land or if there is not peace the payment will be no land and absolute total destruction and death.
Actually, Saudi Arabia pledged $100 million to Mahmoud Abbas back in December..
Don't know if they've actually made good on that yet, though..
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