2,000 years ago, Roman historian Tacitus wrote of the Jews in their ancient homeland, with Jerusalem their Capital. How come there is no historical record of “palestinians“? Because, no such people existed.
While the PA is begging for financial aid, PMW found that in the first quarter of 2020 the PA’s revenues increased by approximately $355 million compared to the same period in 2019, constituting an increase of 47%.
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Maurice Hirsch, Adv. and Itamar Marcus | May 21, 2020
While the PA is begging for financial aid, PMW found that in the first quarter of 2020 the PA’s revenues increased by approximately $355 million compared to the same period in 2019, constituting an increase of 47%.
Would Israel have agreed to loan the Palestinian Authority $227 million (800 million shekels) if the PA had revealed to Israel that in the first quarter of the year its revenues increased by more than $355 million (1.2 billion shekels) compared to the same period in the previous year, and increased by approximately $45 million (160 million shekels) compared to the same period in 2018?
Probably not.
But that is the reality, according to the PA’s official financial reports published by the PA Ministry of Finance.
From the outset of the Coronavirus crisis, senior PA officials warned of a PA financial crisis due to a supposed drop in its revenues and fears about the financial effects of a large number of Palestinians being infected with the virus. It is likely that these claims spurred the Israeli government to approve giving the PA the $227 million loan. But Palestinian Media Watch has now discovered that the claims about a drop in the PA’s revenues were false as were the gloomy estimates regarding mass infection.
Top Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri, who leads the terror group’s West Bank activities, said Thursday night that the organization “welcomes [Abbas’s] decision to stop security coordination,” and added that he hoped “this time it will be serious.”
He claimed that “the return of the resistance to the West Bank is very possible and closer than what people imagine.
While the PA is begging for financial aid, PMW found that in the first quarter of 2020 the PA’s revenues increased by approximately $355 million compared to the same period in 2019, constituting an increase of 47%.
Would Israel have agreed to loan the Palestinian Authority $227 million (800 million shekels) if the PA had revealed to Israel that in the first quarter of the year its revenues increased by more than $355 million (1.2 billion shekels) compared to the same period in the previous year, and increased by approximately $45 million (160 million shekels) compared to the same period in 2018?
Probably not.
But that is the reality, according to the PA’s official financial reports published by the PA Ministry of Finance.
From the outset of the Coronavirus crisis, senior PA officials warned of a PA financial crisis due to a supposed drop in its revenues and fears about the financial effects of a large number of Palestinians being infected with the virus. It is likely that these claims spurred the Israeli government to approve giving the PA the $227 million loan. But Palestinian Media Watch has now discovered that the claims about a drop in the PA’s revenues were false as were the gloomy estimates regarding mass infection.
Just two weeks after the virus reached Israel, PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh was already complaining about lost revenues:
While the PA is begging for financial aid, PMW found that in the first quarter of 2020 the PA’s revenues increased by approximately $355 million compared to the same period in 2019, constituting an increase of 47%.
A letter issued by the European Union’s top diplomat to Palestinian territories allegedly allowing terrorists to benefit from E.U. funding has gotten pro-Israel groups concerned, especially as the E.U. equivocates on the matter.
Economic cooperation does not serve the agenda of the terrorists. Terrorists want Palestinians to continue living in abject poverty so that they can go on blaming Israel for Palestinian misery. Unemployed Palestinians are much easier to target for recruitment as terrorists than Palestinians who are able to feed their families.
Many Saudis who are furious with the Palestinian threats and smear campaign against their country for its alleged rapprochement with Israel have responded through social media platforms by strongly condemning the Palestinians. Saudi pundits are now believed to be behind a trending hashtag on Twitter, entitled, "#The_Palestinian_cause_is_not_my_cause."
The Palestinian smear campaign is taking place amid silence from the international community and media. They seem indifferent to a rather crucial question: if a Palestinian or Muslim cannot share a meal with an Israeli or watch a TV drama about the life of Jews in Arab countries without being labelled a criminal, how would any Palestinian leader dare to sign a peace agreement with Israel?
Economic cooperation does not serve the agenda of the terrorists. Terrorists want Palestinians to continue living in abject poverty so that they can go on blaming Israel for Palestinian misery. Unemployed Palestinians are much easier to target for
She doesn’t say that blowing up Jews is immoral or wrong. On the contrary, all means of “resistance” are valid, but for tactical reasons the PLO doesn’t want the world to know that it embraces terror so it has, for now, abandoned that method. Meaning, if tomorrow the political calculation changes, the PLO can easily move back into suicide bombing.
It is of course absurd to say that an organization that turns terrorists into heroes and that literally pays salaries to those whose only accomplishments in life were to kill Jews has embraced nonviolence. It is purely a result of the West’s disapproval that they have chosen to let Hamas and Islamic Jihad take the terror role at this time.
Man tried to open fire on Israeli motorists near Nablus, but gun apparently jammed; Wednesday attack comes amid tension over Palestinian decision to end security cooperation
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TV: Suspect in attempted West Bank shooting was Palestinian police officer.
Man tried to open fire on Israeli motorists near Nablus, but gun apparently jammed; Wednesday attack comes amid tension over Palestinian decision to end security cooperation
Another Hamas mouthpiece was railing against both the "The criminal Zionist enemies of Allah...'' and the Saudi's in a saliva-slinging tirade.
Marwan Abu Ras: "The criminal Zionist enemies of Allah occupy the Al-Aqsa Mosque. They defile it day and night, kill Muslims, and violate the sanctity of Muslim women and holy places. Hating them is an obligation according to the shari'a.
"These [Saudi] TV channels did not stop at airing shows of corruption and depravity but have become dubious and filthy mouthpieces of Zionist propaganda, financed by Arab and Muslim money, may Allah help us!
Palestinian security forces have withdrawn from towns and villages in Jerusalem classified as Area B in the Oslo accords, Anadolu Agency reports. According to witnesses, Palestinian forces left the northwestern towns...
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“Palestinian security forces have withdrawn from towns and villages in Jerusalem classified as Area B in the Oslo accords, Anadolu Agency reports.According to witnesses, Palestinian forces left the northwestern towns of Iksa, Qatanna and Biddu, as well as the northern Abu Dis and Izarriya towns.Though the Oslo II Accord inked in 1995 between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel, designates area B as subject to Israeli security control, Tel Aviv allowed Palestinian security forces to be deployed there because of the coronavirus pandemic.”
It's an odd dynamic that the Pal-Arabs allow themselves to be exploited by Shia Iran. While the Pals are willing to bend and scrape before the Iranian Mullocrats for a welfare check and arms & ammunition, the Pals must know that the Mullocrats fully expect dead Sunni Pal-Arabs are going to be a result of Iranian weapons.
IRAN'S Supreme Leader sparked outrage in the United States and European Union today by denouncing Israel as a "Zionist tumour" to be eliminated, after sending arms to Palestinians.
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Opposition to Israel is a core belief for Shi'ite-led Iran, which backs Palestinian and Lebanese Islamic militant groups opposed to peace with the Jewish state, which Tehran refuses to recognise. In an online speech quickly condemned by the West as "disgusting", Iran's top authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: "The Zionist regime (Israel) is a deadly, cancerous tumor in the region. It will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed."
NGO Monitor noted that the United Nations (UN) had resorted to 'anti-Israel advocacy' instead of contributing to the humanitarian crisis. |
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International aid worth millions of dollars provided to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for coronavirus emergency response in Palestine has been transferred to Islamic terrorist organisations, reportedThe Jerusalem Post.