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| Israel transfers PA funds as threat of sanctions wanes |
| 2014-05-08 |
| [Ynet] After threat to freeze PA funds, Paleostinians claim Israel begins to transfer money to PA in bid to keep its large public sector functioning and maintaining stability in West Bank. Paleostinian public sector workers received their salaries on Tuesday, Paleostinian officials said, in a sign that Israel had backed down from a threat to impose sanctions as peace talks began to collapse last month. Israel had said on April 10 it would withhold funds after Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... signed a series of international human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. conventions he hoped would allow Paleostinians to eventually challenge Israel at the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , which recognized Paleostine as a non-member state in 2012. US-backed Israeli-Paleostinian peace negotiations ended on April 29 with no breakthrough. Paleostinian officials said the payment reflected Israel's decision to transfer more than $100 million in customs duties it collects on goods headed to Paleostinian-run areas through border crossings it controls. The money accounts for about two-thirds of the Paleostinian budget and is key to keeping its large public sector functioning and maintaining stability in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel had said it would dock payment of over $100 million it said the Paleostinian government owed it in utility bills. Israeli officials could not be immediately reached for comment because of Independence Day. Speaking last week, Paleostinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told news hounds Israel would be paying the near usual monthly amount of 450 million shekels ($130.3 million) and only deducting 20 million shekels ($5.8 million) as part of a loan taken out by a previous Paleostinian government. Paleostinians say their economy cannot reach its full potential while it remains under partial Israeli control. They seek an independent state in Gazoo, East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Israeli, Paleostinian and US officials say they hope to revive peace talks given the right conditions. The United States on Monday denied dismantling its peace negotiations team following the collapse of the Israeli-Paleostinians peace talks led by Washington. Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf dismissed reports that US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... had decided to dismantle the team of American negotiators who have been based on the ground in Jerusalem for months trying to push forward the Israeli-Paleostinian grinding of the peace processor. Chief negotiator Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel, had returned to Washington for consultations, Harf confirmed, after last week's April 29 deadline for a deal passed in a stalemate. |
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