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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Arab League unable to transfer funds to Paleos
2006-05-12
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Arab League has told the Palestinian Authority it is unable to transfer tens of millions of dollars in aid which have been collected for people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said on Thursday.
Warms the cockles of my heart ...
The league’s secretary general “Amr Mussa called (Palestinian Authority president) Mahmud Abbas today and informed him that the league is not in a position to transfer the money offered by the Arab countries,” Hanna Amireh, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation executive committee, told AFP. “This is due to the refusal of the banks to transfer the money as a result of American and international pressure.”

The league has gathered 70 million dollars from Qatar and Saudi Arabia to alleviate the plight of residents of the Palestinian territories where government employees have not been paid for the last two months.
That's about two weeks' pay for the uncivil servants.
However banks have been unwilling to transfer the money, wary of falling foul of international laws that prohibit the financing of terrorist organisations.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  No money for paleos? SWEET!!
Posted by: Mike N.   2006-05-12 15:32  

#5  Why should the intelligent Arabs part with anything for the Paleos when the idiot Eurios have agreed to pick up the tab?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-05-12 10:07  

#4  Much like the Swiss bankers who smiled ever so graciously as they denied claims from the surviving kin of the victims of the concentration camps. "No death certifcate? So sorry. We can't possibly release those funds without the proper paperwork."
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-05-12 09:58  

#3  Well another example of fine reasoning skills.

It is not terroism that spawned the anit-terror laws which the banks are afraid of breaking.

No, fine masters of logic, it is the Americans who spawned the anti-terror laws to prevent Hamas and other Terrorists from getting Arab money. Oh yeah, I see.

I'm betting certain members of The League of Fine Reasoning Skills decided that was a good pot of gold and are keeping it!
Posted by: bombay   2006-05-12 09:15  

#2  70 million! They'll go through that in a week! We're talking about the biggest welfare state in the world guys. We need a couple billion over there. Do you have any idea how much a rocket costs?
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-05-12 08:42  

#1  wary of mysterious hotel room theft in Manama falling foul of international laws that prohibit the financing of terrorist organisations

Posted by: Besoeker   2006-05-12 08:08  

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