PA P.M.: Cough Up the Dough--or Else
Someone forgot to take his happy pills this morning:
The Palestinian self-rule government is close to being "completely incapacitated," largely because Arab countries haven't delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in promised aid, the Palestinian prime minister said in an interview Sunday.
If allowed to continue, the Palestinian Authority's unprecedented financial crisis will quickly double the number of Palestinian poor to 50 per cent of a population of roughly 4 million, Salam Fayyad told The Associated Press.
Fayyad said the malaise is further boosting the political appeal of the Islamic militant Hamas while discrediting him and other proponents of a nonviolent path to statehood in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem...
Funny, the lack of cash didn't seem to put a damper on Fatah revelry in Gaza the other day. Also--why ask Arab countries to throw away good shekels on a bunch of feckless kleptocrats? Wouldn't it be more practical to try to reclaim some of the moolah from Arafat's widow?
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The wealthy Moslem petro-states of the Middle East have found that they can get the "international community," i.e., Western Europe and the transoceanic Anglosphere, to foot the bill for the Palestinian terror-enclaves . . . so why should Saudi princes or Qatari sheiks give up their nth Rolls Royce to pick up the tab? (Especially since they despise the Palestinians for whom they shed copious crocodile tears in public declarations of support.)
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