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Kerry tells Abbas he’ll press Israel to transfer withheld funds
2015-03-14
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
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...
held talks Friday with Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
and the leaders of Egypt and Jordan on the stalled Middle East grinding of the peace processor, officials said.

Kerry was attending an investment conference in Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh along with hundreds of prominent figures to jumpstart its economy.

Ahead of the conference Kerry met Abbas, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Jordan's King Abdullah II to discuss the grinding of the peace processor, a State Department official and Sissi's office said.

Referring to the breakdown in relations with Israel and the ongoing financial crisis in the PA due to withheld tax funds, Abbas said that "there's no alternative but to re-evaluate the security and economic relations between the Paleostinian Authority and Israel." Abbas has threatened several times recently to halt security cooperation between his forces and the IDF in the West Bank.
Yeah, yeah.
Kerry promised Abbas that he would press Israel to resume transferring the tax funds,
But no mention of any sort of quid pro quo, oddly enough.
Israel's Channel 10 news said. The funds have been withheld in recent months in punishment for the PA's decision to join the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
in The Hague and seek to indict Israel for war crimes.

The four leaders discussed creating an environment to "push forward the grinding of the peace processor to reach a comprehensive and just peace in the region," Sissi's office said in a statement.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  Kerry yammers a lot. He is mesmerized by the sound of his own voice. He should listen to the Eagles song "Take it Easy":

I've got seven women on m mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy
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Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-14 11:58  

#2  Since this wasn't Paleo money in the first place (Refunding sales tax to the buyers' place of origins is not international law. It isn't even "Human Rights").
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-03-14 04:33  

#1  Mind your own buisness. Maybe they are withholding the "tax" funds for failure to pay their power bill.
Posted by: chris   2015-03-14 00:20  

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