PA accepts money from Israel despite previously rejecting tax payments due to offsetting of terrorist salaries.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) said on Thursday it had accepted a partial payment of just over half a billion dollars from Israel, AFP reports.
“An agreement was reached a few days ago with the Israeli side for transferring duties on oil and fuel which the Palestinian Authority bought in Israel to the amount of around two billion shekels ($568 million, 512 million euros),” the PA’s “civil affairs minister” Hussein al-Sheikh told the news agency.
Israel in February decided to offset the PA’s payments to terrorists from the tax money it collects on behalf of the PA. The decision meant it would withhold around $10 million per month from revenues of some $190 million per month it collects on the PA’s behalf.
PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas later reiterated that he would not accept partial payment of tax transfers owed by Israel and also stressed that he would not end the financial support for the families of terrorists imprisoned or eliminated by Israel.
Since that time, Israel attempted several times to transfer funds to the PA, which refused the money each time.
“Recovering this money will solve part of the financial crisis caused by the Israeli government’s freezing of Palestinian funds,” said Sheikh of Thursday’s transfer, while stressing that it was only part of the arrears due from Israel.
Sheikh said the underlying political dispute had not been resolved, as the PA insisted that it would continue to pay allowances for imprisoned and dead terrorists down to the “last cent”.
Abbas has in the past called the PA’s continued payments to terrorists a “red line” that would not be halted under any circumstances.
The PA spends six percent of its annual budget to pay $4.5 million a month to jailed terrorists and another $6.5 million to their families.
@ Ted Belman:
Ted, with all due respect, NO the money DOES NOT belong to the PA.
That entity [PA] HAS BREACHED OSLO, CAMP-DAVID, etc. SCORELESS TIMES. And continues to insist that it has a “Moral Obligation” to continue paying and promoting PAY-FOR-SLAY stipends to their noble “Martyrs.”
So, Israel HAS NO OBLIGATION to render any taxes, or anything else to this murderous clan.
What obligation they DO HAVE is to put an end to it and all other entities which seek to harm its citizenry- PARTICULARLY its JEWISH CITIZENRY.
After all, its establishment was [supposedly] FOR THAT VERY PURPOSE!
So at the risk of sounding redundant, it’s worth it, because it’s so important to understand this:
They [GOI Establishment] are COMPLETE COORDINATION AND COOPERATION with their Like-Kind thugs in the PA.
The rest is just Theatrics- for the rest of us.
@ Uzitiger:
Totally Correct, Uzi.
Recall Einstein’s definition of “Insanity.”
But I Reiterate- Without the Israeli Public getting EDUCATED as to WHO REALLY RUNS THIS COUNTRY- and THEN rising up against the Kleptocracy-Bulshavak Mafia- NOTHING WILL CHANGE for the better- It will only continue to get progressively WORSE!
[Pun Intended]
@ roamnrab:
We must have an erev rav government. How insane it is to finance a terror organization that murders our citizens instead of destroying them.
@ Ted Belman:
The money belongs to the terror victims. Israel needs someone to come in and drain the Bolshevik Swamp from the judicial, police, military and corrupt politicians. Kahane IS right, Arabs must go!
Basically the PA decided to quit playing suicide by accepting their own tax revenues which Israel per Oslo collects on their behalf.
Don’t be confused. I think this money really belongs to the PA. Israel just collected it on their behalf..A few months ago Israel decided to with hold the money and subsequently said they would release it but the PA wouldn’t take it. Now the PA has changed its mind.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
One wonders, how many “Kick-backs” wind up in the hands of “Israeli Officials” for all this to take place?
The CORRUPT GOI (includes, Police, IDF Bosses, ‘Judicial” System and BANKING/BIG-BUSINESS Establishments +++) Couldn’t Care Less about the well being and protection of their Citizenry (=Electorate). It’s ALL one big Mafia Operation!
And they are COMPLETE COORDINATION AND COOPERATION with their Like-Kind thugs in the PA.
The rest is just Theatrics- for the rest of us.
Obviously, Israel is the principal financier of the two Palestinian Arab regimes that are waging a terror war against it and its people.See my comments under the article “Who’s funding illegal PA settlements in Area C-Nearly 10,000 cases.” On this site.