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Wednesday, August 09, 2023

The real elephants in the room (2023 edition)

Recently, a group of hundreds of North American academics issued a statement linking the Israeli governments support for judicial reform with the "occupation" and saying Israel is guilty of apartheid and Jewish supremacism.They called the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria "the elephant in the room."This prompts me to bring up the real elephants in the room - the elephants...

Palestinians in an uproar over Abbas "shekel tax" on phones "to support Jerusalem"

Yesterday, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced that every Palestinian with a mobile or landline phone will have to pay an extra shekel every month "to support Jerusalem."Palestinians received a message on their mobile phones saying, "In compliance with President Abbas' decision, one shekel will be added to your bill every month for a period of 12 months as part of...

Why is the UN holding closed anti-Israel meetings under Chatham House rules?

From the UN:The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) held closed consultations with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), titled “Advocating for Accountability in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, on 8 November 2022, as a virtual meeting under the Chatham House Rule. Participants included CSO representatives from Palestine,...

Palestinians know their leaders are corrupt - but Western media keeps downplaying it

The full results of the latest PCPSR poll of Palestinians has been published, and it finds a consistent pattern.86% of Palestinians say there is corruption in the Palestinian Authority and 73% say there is corruption in institutions under Hamas’ control in the Gaza Strip.That is truly overwhelming majority - and it is a story that the Western media continuously downplays....

Palestinian government giving ministers and extra $24K a year as "petty cash"

Safa reports:Official documents obtained by the Palestinian Press Agency (Safa) revealed that the ministers of the current government have been receiving “petty cash” monthly, in the amount of $2,000, since late 2019.This is despite the financial crisis that the PA is going through, and despite President Mahmoud Abbas' decision on August 18, 2019 to stop disbursing any additional...

Palestinians angry at obvious nepotism in Palestinian Authority

Recently, a position as Palestinian "Minister of Local Government" was given to the daughter of another minister, causing Palestinian social media to erupt with anger and jeering for a history of nepotism and favored appointments to friends.There's a history here. Last year several envoys to foreign countries were given to relatives of senior Fatah officials. Palestinian...

The media completely ignores the corruption inherent in the PLO and PA

On Thursday, Mahmoud Abbas led a meeting of the PLO Executive Committee, for which he has been the chairman since 2004.Here is what the meeting looked like as they prayed to open the session:Sixteen older white men, almost all Muslim. Hanan Ashrawi, a Christian woman, was a member of this committee but she resigned in 2020 - partially because all the decisions were being...

Abbas releasing accused killers of Nizar Banat on "bail": report

Remember Nizar Banat? He's the critic who publicly called the Palestinian Authority corrupt and organized protests against Mahmoud Abbas.Last June 24, at 3:30 AM, he was arrested by PA security services. By 6:30 AM, he was dead.The PA pretended to be shocked at his death and arrested a bunch of people after the international community expressed displeasure at an...

The best way to get a job in the PA? Just murder a Jew!

From Times of Israel: Palestinian prisoners, who were convicted of killing Israelis and then released by Israel as a goodwill gesture to grease peace talks, were given at least $50,000 apiece as well as a comfortable monthly salary from the Palestinian Authority. Depending on the length of their jail term, the prisoners received more cash. Those who were held for over 25...

Surprise! EU auditors find billions of euros missing in WB/Gaza

From the Sunday Times: BILLIONS of euros in European aid to the Palestinians may have been misspent, squandered or lost to corruption, according to a damning report by the European Court of Auditors, the Luxembourg-based watchdog. Brussels transferred more than £1.95bn to the occupied territories between 2008 and 2012 but had little control over how it was spent, the auditors say in an unpublished report seen by The Sunday Times. EU investigators...