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For the purpose of analysis, Shtayyeh’s statement should be broken into three parts.“The Israeli government’s decision to deduct a sum of 600 million [Israeli] shekels from the Palestinian tax money is arbitrary and illegal. He noted that this is tantamount to piracy that will add another dimension to our financial crisis, but said that this will not dissuade us from standing by our commitments towards the families of the prisoners and the Martyrs.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 2, 2022]
The Palestinian Authority is once again complaining about its alleged financial crisis. As a consequence of the alleged crisis, for months the PA has only paid its employees 70% - 80% of the salaries due to them. As usual, the PA is deflecting any responsibility for its situation and is merely blaming Israel.
This approach was summed up in a statement of PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh following the July 31, 2022 decision of Israel’s Security Cabinet to implement Israel’s Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law that withholds tax money from the PA by the amount the PA pays in salaries to terrorists.
For the purpose of analysis, Shtayyeh’s statement should be broken into three parts.
Part I: Israel’s decision was neither “arbitrary” nor “illegal”
In the decision, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved a report of Israel’s Minister of Defense, which stipulated that in 2021 the PA had spent approximately 600 million shekels paying salaries to terrorist prisoners and released terrorists and allowances to wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists. These payments are often referred to as the PA’s Pay-for-Slay policy. According to Israel's Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law, the figure stipulated is now being deducted in twelve equal parts from the taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA.
The decision was neither arbitrary nor illegal. Israel gathers taxes and transfers them to the PA as part of the Oslo peace agreements. These are not PA taxes, as the Palestinians often claim, but rather Israeli taxes waived in favor of the PA. The taxes are not given as a free gift. Rather, the expectation is that in the same manner as Israel collects and transfers the taxes pursuant to the Oslo Accords, the PA will meet its commitments pursuant to the Oslo Accords, inter alia, to combat terror.
But instead of using the money as intended, the PA uses the money to incentivize, promote, and reward terror through the terror salaries. The PA’s refusal to abandon its Pay-for-Slay policy has therefore forced Israel to legislate a law that penalizes the PA for these payments.
According to Israel's Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law, at the end of each year Israel’s Minister of Finance submits a report to the Israeli Security Cabinet, in which he details the sums paid by the PA (directly or indirectly through the PLO) to the terrorists. Once the report is approved, the sum set by the Minister of Defense in his report is then “frozen”.
The frozen money is deposited in a special account. The law adds that were the PA to abandon its terror reward payments, it would be entitled to receive some, if not all, of the money withheld.
Part II: Is the PA suffering a financial crisis because of Israel’s decision?
Analysis of PA financial reports, actually shows that in the first half of 2022, the PA’s gross revenue from all taxes – the taxes Israel collects and the taxes the PA collects by itself – was higher than ever. When compared to the same period in previous years, the PA revenue for the first half of 2022 has risen by over 1.3 billion shekels compared to 2017. 900 million shekels of that rise is from the taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA.
According to the PA’s financial reports, by the end of June the PA tax revenue was higher than expected and already covered 52% of the PA’s 2022 budget.
While the PA has been taking active measures since the beginning of 2022 to hide its budget performance reports, Palestinian Media Watch managed to get access to the June 2022 report, which is being exposed here, for the first time:
Even if one were to look only at the PA revenue from the Israeli taxes, after the implementation of the Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law the picture does not change substantially. According to the PA financial reports, the PA income from the Israeli taxes during the first six months of 2022 was the highest ever, and greater by over 165 million shekels, even after taking the Israeli deduction into account.
(full article online)
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They should be allowed to return. To Saudi Arabia.
Throwing out terrorist cards like rice at a wedding.There's something in the article about Fatah not hiding its role in islamic terrorist attacks. Clearly, they never have. Fatah typically boasts of its role in attacks aimed at Israel and has a graduated pay scale for the minions on their payroll.
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“When the [Al-Aqsa Martyrs’] Brigades say it, they do it, and when they make a promise, they keep it”
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Terror organizations Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine applaud the murder as “heroic operation”
Throwing out terrorist cards like rice at a wedding.
The man murdered an 84-year-old woman and then committed suicide. Horrifying and shocking by any measure. The man was not investigated and from what has been published so far, it is not known what his motive is. What's more, it is very uncharacteristic for someone with a nationalistic motive to commit suicide after a murder. But the fact that he was Palestinian and she is Israeli, is also enough for the newspaper Haaretz to call him a "terrorist"
And maybe he was "just" a psychopath?
So that's it, a Palestinian cannot be a psychopath, because if he kills an Israeli, that means he is by definition a "terrorist". I don't know what was the motive behind this horrible act. It seems that even the police and the network do not know. But I do know that there are Palestinians who are "just" psychopaths. By the way, there are also such Jews.
Member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Osama al-Qawasmi, announced the agenda of President Mahmoud Abbas, while he was in New York, to participate in the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly.
The goal of President Abbas's meetings before his expected speech is to expose Israel's crimes, to inform the international community in the latest developments, and to present the Palestinian vision for the solution and the steps that the Palestinian leadership will take.
He pointed out that the Palestinian leadership held a series of round-the-clock meetings with heads of state, foreign ministers, and international institutions to put them in a picture of the situation and the political impasse it has reached.
Rashida Tlaib getting humiliated and lashing out like a petulant teenager.