You can spin this any way you like, the bottom line is this: When $25 million goes into Gaza, rockets come out.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday approved the transfer of NIS 100 million ($25.5 million) from the West Bank banks to Gaza.
The move was approved following an appeal made by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and the governor of the Bank of Israel, Stanley Fischer, due to the cash fund crisis in the Strip, which has caused a number of banks to shut down.
The funds are intended to pay the salaries of 70,000 of the Palestinian Authority’s employees in the Gaza Strip, and will be transferred this week in an Israeli ‘Brink’s’ truck.
Five bucks says Hamas tries to hijack the truck. Ten bucks says Hamas does not try to hijack the truck, because Hamas will simply get the money back in “taxes” and extortion.
The Israeli government is continuing with the pretense that Fatah is a “moderate” group that wants peace with Israel, in spite of the fact that Mahmoud Abbas has stated on several occasions that if he doesn’t get what he wants, war and terror are absolutely options. Sorry. “Resistance.”
Israel is the only nation in the world that is expected to arm and feed its enemies. I don’t see India being forced to send money to Pakistan.
Some days, I hate the news.