The Biden administration is furious with Finance Minister Smotrich’s decision to freeze tax revenues collected for the Palestinian Authority.
Israel National News Jun 13, 2024, 10:56 PM (GMT+3)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to release Palestinian tax revenues frozen last month by Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, Axios reported on Thursday citing three US and Israeli officials.
Smotrich made the decision in May after several European countries, including Spain, Ireland, and Norway unilaterally recognized a Palestinian state.
In his announcement, Smotrich said that he would take financial steps that would topple the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria, where the European countries have declared they would recognize “Palestine.”
Among these steps is a complete halt to the transfer of tax money to the Palestinian Authority, and no extension of the indemnity extended to banks that transfer money to banks in Judea and Samaria.
Smotrich also called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take a number of financial steps that will deal a critical blow to the Palestinian Authority and may cause its economic collapse within a matter of months.
On Wednesday, Finance Minister Smotrich ordered the Tax Authority to deduct a sum of 130 million NIS from funds transferred to the Palestinian Authority and transfer them instead to 28 families of terror victims.
According to Axios, the White House was furious about Smotrich’s move not only because it further destabilized the Palestinian Authority and the security situation in Judea and Samaria, but also because he violated an agreement the US negotiated and was party to. A US official said that Blinken told Netanyahu during their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday that the tax revenue issue is highly important for the Biden administration and that he needs to fix it.
The American officials added that the suspension of the Palestinian tax revenues by Israel is hampering a US-Saudi Arabia attempt to mobilize an aid package for the Palestinian Authority from the Gulf states. They said that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar would not agree to the $10 million-a-month package before Israel releases the Palestinian tax revenues.
I would go further.
It is now quite impossible, and already arrived on the scene of history as openly betraying the Jews, to claim to be defending Netanyahu, and also taking part in the ONE SIDED war on Russia.
It is now or never.
Jews must break forever with evil America while seeking to unite with ordinary Americans at every opportunity. These two things go together. It must become like breathing for Jews. Split openly with Biden. He’s a paper tiger. To survive Jews must earn the anger of this old reprobate and nothing will bring it out in the open than defending Putin openly for the whole world to see.
Dreuveni
“Is this the same US that agreed to contribute $B50 of Russian frozen funds to Ukraine? This smacks of “Alice in Wonderland”. ”
It is exactly the same with Biden and Blinken behind
The same Biden who on YouTube boasted about forcing Putin into war that Putin and Russia would be forced to fight.
And the same Biden who in private cursed against Netanyahu
What’s the difference. There’s no difference. Everything depends on Jews seeing there’s no difference.
To win against Biden strip away this hypocrisy which many Jews are guilty of.
Another example of Blinken’s support for terrorist antisemitic murderers. A truly evil man.
Is this the same US that agreed to contribute $B50 of Russian frozen funds to Ukraine? This smacks of “Alice in Wonderland”.
Is this the same US that agreed to contribute $B50 of Russian frozen fund to Ukraine? This smacks of “Alice in Wonderland”.