"Israel puts hold on $89m for Palestinians" by Associated Press / May 2, 2011
JERUSALEM — Israel will hold up an $89 million cash transfer to the Palestinians planned for this week, the Israeli finance minister said yesterday, in the country’s first tangible step against a new unity arrangement between Palestinian factions.
Israel wants assurances that any money transferred to the Palestinians will not reach the militant Hamas organization, which is set to become part of the Palestinian government, said the minister, Yuval Steinitz.
“I think the burden of proof is on the Palestinians, to make it certain, to give us guarantees that money delivered by Israel is not going to the Hamas, is not going to a terrorist organization, is not going to finance terror operations against Israeli citizens,’’ Steinitz said ahead of the Israeli government’s weekly meeting.
As if Israel is doing them some sort of favor.
Israel collects some tax and customs fees for the Palestinians under peace agreements of the 1990s. Israel has held up cash transfers several times in the past decade, citing concerns that the money was being used to fund attacks against Israelis.
Translation: they are stealing Palestinian $$.
The framework of the Palestinian unity deal, which was announced last week, aims at a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. Fatah, backed by the West, dominates the Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank and officially seeks an accommodation with Israel. The Iran-backed Hamas rules Gaza and officially remains committed to Israel’s destruction.
The media must think if they repeat it enough times I will believe it.
The details of the deal, set to be signed at a ceremony in Cairo on Wednesday, remain unclear. It is meant to lead immediately to a transitional government and new elections within one year.
The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, said on a visit to Bethlehem that the Israeli move yesterday would not affect the unity plan.
Israel is irrelevant now.
In Gaza, Hamas official Khalil al-Haya called the Israeli decision “blackmail’’ and urged the sides to move ahead with the reconciliation agreement, which he said would “bring good for our people and make us able to defeat the occupation of our land.’’
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned yesterday that the nation must not dismiss Iran’s threats to its existence, drawing a parallel at a ceremony in memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
Oh my God, HOW SHAMELESS!!
What it reminds me of is the boy who cried wolf -- with the wolf being a Mossad wolf in sheep's clothing.
--more--"
And it is not just the Palestinians they are doing it to:
Trove of Holocaust records goes online
Israel wants assurances that any money transferred to the Palestinians will not reach the militant Hamas organization, which is set to become part of the Palestinian government, said the minister, Yuval Steinitz.
“I think the burden of proof is on the Palestinians, to make it certain, to give us guarantees that money delivered by Israel is not going to the Hamas, is not going to a terrorist organization, is not going to finance terror operations against Israeli citizens,’’ Steinitz said ahead of the Israeli government’s weekly meeting.
As if Israel is doing them some sort of favor.
Israel collects some tax and customs fees for the Palestinians under peace agreements of the 1990s. Israel has held up cash transfers several times in the past decade, citing concerns that the money was being used to fund attacks against Israelis.
Translation: they are stealing Palestinian $$.
The framework of the Palestinian unity deal, which was announced last week, aims at a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. Fatah, backed by the West, dominates the Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank and officially seeks an accommodation with Israel. The Iran-backed Hamas rules Gaza and officially remains committed to Israel’s destruction.
The media must think if they repeat it enough times I will believe it.
The details of the deal, set to be signed at a ceremony in Cairo on Wednesday, remain unclear. It is meant to lead immediately to a transitional government and new elections within one year.
The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, said on a visit to Bethlehem that the Israeli move yesterday would not affect the unity plan.
Israel is irrelevant now.
In Gaza, Hamas official Khalil al-Haya called the Israeli decision “blackmail’’ and urged the sides to move ahead with the reconciliation agreement, which he said would “bring good for our people and make us able to defeat the occupation of our land.’’
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned yesterday that the nation must not dismiss Iran’s threats to its existence, drawing a parallel at a ceremony in memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
Oh my God, HOW SHAMELESS!!
What it reminds me of is the boy who cried wolf -- with the wolf being a Mossad wolf in sheep's clothing.
--more--"
And it is not just the Palestinians they are doing it to:
Trove of Holocaust records goes online
Visitors to memorial mark Holocaust
Holocaust database unites cousins in Israel
WWII archive found on Dutch Jews’ arrests
Austrian baker of Nazi cake tries to make amends
Amsterdam to mark Jews’ WWII homes
Will Israelis be doing the same for Palestinians in 65 years?
