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)
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!
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.
You really didn't think that Fatah would leave power and leave money on the table, did you???
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.
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.
Ping for later read.
I guess the suicide bomber industry isn't as lucrative now that Saddam is gone.
Arafat's wife has some 800 million american dollars in previous aid. Call her.