Israeli Gov’t Lacks Dignity, Self-Respect: Freeing Frozen Tax Funds = More Money to Buy More Weapons and Pay More Terrorists to Kill More Jews
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PM May Free Frozen Tax Funds to Abbas, by Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may accede to a request by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at their meeting in Jericho on Thursday to release some of the PA tax revenues that Israel froze after Hamas took power last year, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
“We’ll see what they ask for,” a senior government official said when asked whether Israel would release some of the estimated $700 million in Palestinian tax and tariff revenues it has been withholding since Hamas formed its first government in March 2006.
“Israel is willing to check to see whether it is able, within the existing mechanism, to release some of the funds,” the official said.
Israel is under increasing pressure to release at least some of the money, and government officials said the issue came up in nearly every meeting Olmert held with foreign leaders. For instance, visiting US Sen. Joe Lieberman brought it up on Sunday when he met with Olmert after meeting with Abbas in Ramallah.
The Middle East Quartet, in a statement released after its meeting in Berlin last week, said, “The resumption of transfers of tax and customs revenues collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Authority would have a significant impact on the Palestinian economy. The Quartet encouraged Israel and the Palestinian Authority to consider resumption of such transfers via the Temporary International Mechanism to improve the economic and humanitarian conditions in the West Bank and Gaza.”
Commentary;
Israel’s corrupt, bankrupt immoral politicians lack even a modicum of dignity, self-identity, self-respect, self-worth, self-esteem in bowing to every avodah zora while putting the Jews in dire jeopardy and mortal danger. MB
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Monday, June 4th, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
[…] But we live in contemporary times. Is it possible to find such a leader who fits the above criteria amongst modern-day politicians and governing “leaders(sic)”? Surely NOT in any Memshelet Yisrael that I’m aware of. Just check out the news which runs the gamut from political pressure for talks with Syria (read: about the Golan), US and EU pressure to transfer taxes collected from Arabs to the “pa(sic)”, to power-abusive Israeli government bureaucrats in life or death situations denying help, aid or benefits to terror victims, to a distorted, mutant sense of morality which says that my avowed enemy’s basic supplies must not be harmed even as he continues to take Jewish blood and lives and seeks our destruction and obliteration. And for good measure, let’s throw in the gross and utter neglect of successive regimes regarding Jonathan Pollard and an Israeli presidential candidate’s complicity in Pollard’s continued incarceration as well as the outrageous police approval for another attempt at a “gay parade” abomination. […]
Monday, June 11th, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
[…] 1/ Disengagement = Divorce. But we still bring in Arabs from “pa(sic)” administered areas to work in Israel. The regime still provides them with water, electricity, phone and cellphone service as well as tax transfers. We gave away the Gaza checkpoints for nothing thus enabling massive arms smuggling in and out between Gaza and “pa(sic)” administered areas of Yehuda and Shomron. This weaponry thus comes into the hands of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Tanzim, al-Aksa brigades and yes, even Fatah. […]
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 @ 1:05 pm
[…] The scamming of Israel by Mahmoud Abbas is to be expected. But can feigned ignorance by Olmert regarding the potential for scam, both with regard to the transfer of millions of USD in previously frozen tax transfers and the release and amnesty given hundreds of former PA terror prisoners be seen as complicit in the entire scam regarding these “gestures” to Abbas knowing full well the Abbas, Fatah, Hamas track-record?? […]