Netanyahu Withholds $7.7 Million From P.A. For Unpaid Sewage Bills

Arutz 7 ^ | March 15, 2003 | staff

[Nachum]

Globes, Israel's business newspaper, reports that Finance Minister Netanyahu made what it calls his "first operational decision since taking office" earlier this week when he authorized the withholding of $7.7 million in tax payments to the Palestinian Authority to cover unpaid sewage treatment bills. The Ministry of National Infrastructures, now headed by the Shinui party's Yosef Paritzky, recommended this move.

This is the first time the Ministry of Finance has withheld money from the PA for this purpose. Israel collects tax monies for the PA, and then periodically transfers some of the funds to the PA. Calls have often been made by political and defense sources, most recently by MK Yuri Stern (National Union), for instance, to withhold these payments as long as the PA continues to allow free rein to terrorists. The extent of the PA's unpaid sewage bills to Israeli authorities is as follows: $2.08m was for the PA's debt to Hagihon-Jerusalem Water & Sewage Industries for treating sewage from Beit Jala, Beit Sahur and Bir Naballah; $3.54m for its debt to the Emek Hefer Regional Council for treating sewage from Shechem; and $2.08m for the PA's debt to the South Sharon Regional Council for treating sewage from Tul Karem.

[Semper Paratus]

Netanyahu has had enough of their crap.

[sofaman]

Netanyahu Withholds $7.7 Million From P.A. For Unpaid Sewage Bills...

Too many jokes! Brain is over stimulated!

Shavuah Tov, Nachum

[Nachum]

I had wondered if this bit would pass the "smell" test...

[sheik yerbouty]

The PA itself, is raw sewage. They are excrement, and their only benefit would be derived from their removal.

[UncleSamUSA]

Good move Bibi. When the raw sewage which consists of Arafat's thugs, the terrorists at Hamas, the Iranian sewage of Hezbollah and the rest of the hate-Israel crowd is finally crushed and flushed into the sea, then maybe Israel will be willing to see the Palestinians care to rejoin humanity.

[Crusader21stCentury]

Actually, he should give them the money and close the sewage pipes to the treatment plants. Now that would cause things to hit the fan.

[Enduring Freedom]

Shi'ite Muslims?