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Wednesday, August 09, 2023

Palestinians never run out of ways to blame Jews for their abject failures

The official Palestinian Authority Wafa news agency reports:Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today received in his Ramallah office the new head of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Kerstin Gerling, in the presence of its former head, Alexander Tieman, and IMF Resident Representative Thomas Laursen, during which they discussed...

World Bank, IMF continue to avoid recommending the Palestinians stop Pay for Slay

Don't tell me how to spend the money the West sends me!The International Monetary Fund visited Israel and the territories this month to give advice on helping the Palestinian economy.They issued a final statement with a summary of their findings. But there was something missing:A single word about the Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund or the other programs that pay terrorists...

Why don't The World Bank and IMF ever recommend the PA end Pay to Slay?

On May 10, the World Bank issued a report on the economy of the Palestinian territories, with suggestions and ideas to help it make ends meet.This follows a similar report by the International Monetary Fund at the end of April. Both of them mention, as an issue, that Israel is withholding some tax revenue corresponding to the PA's payments to terrorist prisoners, their...

The @NYTimes writes about Lebanon's economic crisis - without mentioning Hezbollah's role once

Lebanon is suffering from an economic meltdown, that has become a looming catastrophe because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The New York Times covers it...with a curious omission.Lebanon’s economic problems have been building for years. A nation of 5.4 million on the Mediterranean with a variety of religious sects and large groups of Syrian and Palestinian refugees, Lebanon has...

PA facing "worst financial crisis yet" - Arabs ignore it while Israel tries to help!

From AFP: The Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank is facing its “worst financial crisis” since its 1994 establishment, the Palestinian labor minister told AFP on Sunday. Ahmed Majdalani warned that a shortfall in the delivery of aid from Arab donor nations means the PA will be unable to pay employees their July salaries or pay off debts it owes to private businesses across the West Bank. “It is the worst financial crisis experienced...

Conditional - or conditioning?

In 2003, the Financial Times reported about EU aid to the Palestinian Authority:The EU has worked throughout the bloodstained months of the intifada to keep a Palestinian administration alive and to drive a process of reform within it. Often in the face of sharp criticism at home and abroad, the EU supported the Palestinian Authority with direct budgetary assistance at a time...

Let's see how those anti-Israel boycotts are doing

From Globes:The IMF has raised its growth outlook for Israel by 0.3 percentage points in a new World Economic Outlook report published today, on the eve of the World Bank Group and IMF 2007 Annual Meeting. ...It now predicts 4.8% growth in 2007, and 4.2% growth in 2008. The IMF’s growth forecast for Israel is one of the highest for developed countries; the IMF categorizes Israel as such. The IMF predicts higher growth rates in 2007 for Hong Kong...