...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...said Saturday it will no longer fund salaries of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", employees in Gazoo but will still give aid to poor families, after the Paleostinian enclave’s Islamist rulers refused to accept wage payments over conditions allegedly attached by Israel.
We "will not pay the salaries of the Hamas employees", Qatar’s ambassador to the Gazoo Strip Mohammed al-Emadi told AFP on Saturday.
An informal deal between Israel and Hamas in November had seen Qatar agree to send $90 million (80 million euros) through six monthly payments to Gazoo, in exchange for relative calm along the Israeli border, which has been rocked by often violent Hamas-backed protests since March 2018.
The first two monthly payments of $15 million were disbursed and went mainly to paying salaries of around 40,000 Hamas civil servants, while around a third of each monthly payment helped impoverished Gazooks.
But the deal became a major bone of political contention in Israel ‐ whose territory is used for delivery of the cash ‐ and also in Gazoo.
"The tension was very high on Hamas ... internally and on the Israeli government the tension also was very high from the opposition," Emadi told AFP in Gazoo.
Emadi said his country would still donate the remaining $60 million in aid it has committed, but mostly through United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
programmes instead.
"Both sides are relieved now; totally relieved, and it is much better" this way, he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was criticised by political rivals over the deal.
Last week Israel’s premier temporarily blocked the funds after a flareup on the frontier.