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Abbas said to cut salaries of 37 Hamas lawmakers
[IsraelTimes] Deputy speaker calls measure a ’declaration of war’ on Paleostinian Legislative Council; Abbas threatens ’economic sanctions’The Paleostinian Authority cut the salaries of 37 Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", politicians as part of a series of measures to get the terror group to cede control of the Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian media reports said on Sunday. The PA finance ministry informed MPs from Hamas’s Change and Reform bloc who are living in the West Bank that they would no longer receive their salaries, First Deputy Speaker of the Paleostinian parliament Ahmed Bahar, told the news site Safa. Bahar called the measure a "declaration of war" against the Paleostinian Legislative council. The speaker of the parliament, Aziz Dweik ...Dweik has been associated with The Moslem Brotherhood and Hamas since as early as 1992.... , was among those who had their salaries cut, Bahar said. According to Paleostinian law, Dweik would become Abbas’s temporary successor should the 82-year-old PA president no longer be able to continue his duties. The Paleostinian parliament has not met since 2007, following a battle between Hamas and the PA’s ruling Fatah party. Bahar noted the PA cut the salaries of all Hamas MPs living in Gazoo following the terror group’s takeover of the Strip in 2007. Since April, in a series of measures meant to force Hamas give up control in Gazoo, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has cut funds for Israeli-supplied electricity to Gazoo by 35 percent, reduced by one-third the salaries of tens of thousands of PA employees in Gazoo, reduced the medical budget for Gazoo by a reported 90% and forced more than 6,000 PA employees Gazoo into early retirement. The Paleostinian Authority argues, along with Israel, that Hamas puts taxes it collects into its own coffers and military, while Ramallah pays the bills to keep the Strip’s institutions and infrastructure running. In June, with Egyptian mediation, Dahlan and Hamas reportedly agreed to establish a new "management committee" of Gazoo, which would see the Fatah strongman share control of the Paleostinian enclave.
Abbas did not make clear how he would implement the sanctions or what they would be. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-10 |
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