Posted on 04/05/2006 12:48:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
New Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of the Islamic group Hamas, conducts his first cabinet meeting in Gaza City, Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The Palestinian Authority's coffers are empty and the new government is struggling to find money to pay tens of thousands of its employees, Haniyeh told his Hamas-led Cabinet at its first meeting Wednesday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar attends a session of the Palestinian parliament in Gaza, March 28, 2006. Zahar on Wednesday denied referring to a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, wording that might have hinted Hamas was recognizing Israel's right to exist. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
They will have difficulty running the West Bank and Gaza without massive foreign aid… Ismail Haniyeh suggested the Palestinian Authority will find it hard to meet its monthly payroll of 140,000 employees — salaries that sustain about one-third of the Palestinians.
One third of all Palestinians are paid out of my paycheck?
I better get another job.
Do they have any oil rich fellow Muslim countries sympathetic to their cause? Why is it all US...Canada...UN...EU?
they've also run out of rocks and will be going to the snapping wet towel as weapon of choice!
Thanks, may as well link it up, make a ring. titles totally different, FR search couldn't catch it. oh well. ;-)
Ismail Haniyeh says 'PA treasury is completely empty'
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The Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 5, 2006
Posted on 04/05/2006 12:08:23 PM PDT by ncountylee
Ask Suha Arafat to sell her Paris condo to pay the bills. Or if that fails, what about a little country called SAUDI ARABIA, which pretends to care about the P.A. I heard they have a few bucks to throw around. Why is it the Americans and Euroweenies have to come to the rescue?
Let the Arab countries help their own.......
What, no takers? Thought so.
I'm curious, whatever happened to the estimated 1 to 3 billion "personal" fortune (stolen) that Arafat and his buddies absconded with over the years?
You really didn't think that Fatah would leave power and leave money on the table, did you???
As for their financial trouble, I seem to recall that yassir squirelled away nearly 2 billion. Perhaps Hamas ought to pay Suha a visit and find out where it is.
I just hope they don't find the hole in Uncle Sam's pocket!
""Sending such a mixed message, Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar wrote to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday that the new Hamas government believes its struggle against Israel's military occupation is just, but that it wants to live side-by-side and in peace with its neighbors.""
I feel for Zahar's consternation. He is being misinterpreted. The military occupation is of all the lands of Western Palestine. Peace is per Islamist definition of the word, Dar Es Islam, with the People of the Book taking dhimmi status.
"Why is it the Americans and Euroweenies have to come to the rescue?"
I don't think the Western Euros will come through for Hamas. Part of the reason why they did for Arafat was a kind of Marxist sentimentality hangin over from the Cold War. The frisson of revolution is not fed by giving money to Hamas. The French may continue in their hopes of maintaining influence in the region.
This just begs for a caption contest!
Very attractive comb-over on that Foreign Minister.
I've got an idea... why don't they have a bloody civil war and reduce the population to a level sustainable with their resources? Yeesh. I hope all the terror leaders get the Caucescu treatment - they convinced their people that terror against Israel was more important than survival, let them answer to the folks who soon will have no food to eat. Let them feed their hungry people with their own bodies, as is appropriate to their level of civilization and respect for human life.
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