Posted on 04/09/2006 7:37:17 AM PDT by knighthawk
OSLO, April 9 (Reuters) - Norway has frozen aid to the Palestinian Authority, officials said on Sunday, joining a growing list of countries halting assistance to pressure the new Hamas government to restart negotiations with Israel.
Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said that Norway wanted to help bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table "so that we can achieve our goal and the international community's goal -- namely two states that can live side by side in peace."
"It is worrisome that we now see that both Israel and the Palestinian side are turning inward and disregarding the need to negotiate with one another," Stoere told Norwegian radio.
Stoere said that Norway did not aim to punish Palestinians for their choice of government but that it could not support an administration regardless of its policies.
Norway currently gives around $57 million a year in aid to the Palestinian Authority.
The United States and the European Commission suspended aid to the new Hamas-led Palestinian government on Friday, pushing the Palestinian Authority closer to financial collapse.
Ping
--a start--now if the rest of the West would do the same--
I hope they're patient.
I know.
Financing international terrorism never sits well with me.
Boycott the terrorists in "Palestine."
HELLO McFLY!!!
Palestinians, Hamas et al DO NOT want Peace - They want Israel Gone or Dead!
Sometimes the "world community" needs a baseball bat to the head.
Western nations never donate money nor care a flying patootie about what's happening in Somalia or Darfur or any other place on earth where people disagree.
Then what is their sick obsession with Israel and the Palestinians? Why can't they stay the heck out of there with their moneys and their witholding of moneys and other forms of interference?
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