[yonif]

More aid to terrorists and the infrastructure that produces terrorists, and haters of Jews and Christians.

[xrp]

donations are down also partly because of the fact that Yassir AraFAT takes it all.

[PeteFromMontana]

Palestinian Authority's finance ministry....


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Arafat? Yasser

[HardStarboard]

They must be running out of explosive belts in childrens sizes.

[HitmanLV]

World Bank announces $15 million emergency grant for PA

I told the Governor not to make that big bet on the Pirates this year...

[Thane_Banquo]

The World Bank is giving the Palestinian Authority's finance ministry an emergency $15 million grant to improve battered education, health and social services in the West Bank and Gaza to kill as many innocent Jews as possible.

[sgtbono2002]

Another fat deposit in Arafats account.

[Weimdog]

Don't the officials at the World Bank watch 60 Minutes?

"What is Mr. Arafat and the Palestinian Authority worth today?" asks accountant Jim Prince. "Who is controlling that money? Where is that money? How do we get it back?"

So far, Prince's team has determined that part of the Palestinian leader's wealth was in a secret portfolio worth close to $1 billion -- with investments in companies like a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Ramallah, a Tunisian cell phone company and venture capital funds in the U.S. and the Cayman Islands.

Although the money for the portfolio came from public funds like Palestinian taxes, virtually none of it was used for the Palestinian people; it was all controlled by Arafat. And, Prince says, none of these dealings were made public.

"Arafat accumulated another $1 billion with the help of -- of all people -- the Israelis. Under the Oslo Accords, it was agreed that Israel would collect sales taxes on goods purchased by Palestinians and transfer those funds to the Palestinian treasury. But instead, Indyk says, "that money is transferred to Yasser Arafat to, amongst other places, bank accounts which he maintains off-line in Israel."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1018872/posts

[John Beresford Tipton]

A country that has made a begging bowl a national symbol should be hesitant to criticize others.

[GeronL]

Thats nothing compared to what the US gives

[NeoCaveman]

I was really hoping tht PA meant Pennsylvania

[TrueBeliever9]

Why doesn't The Third World Bank insist that Arafat makes these improvements with some of the $500 million that he in US Tax Dollars that he already stole? I hope you know that that $15 million is coming from the US Treasury - wired by order of the US Congress (on Capital Hill).

I think maybe Mrs. Arafat could contribute out of her monthly stipend of $100,000 to less fortunate people living under her husband's regime.

[American in Israel]

Yasar Arafats Office consumes 10 million a month. All of the Palestinian people together in the Palestinian Authority social services structure only are budgeted 6 million a month.

So this emergency money will buy explosives for 1.5 months, or food for a quarter of a year.

It seems strange that they pay Arafat for his people starving in the war that he is waging. Why not just stop the war? The Jews are starving too, but nobody gives a rip, and they offer peace.

It shows that the motivation to pay money is not care for the hungry, but fear of the bully.

[Bobby777]

"After three years of 'intifada' all Palestinian economic indicators show steep decline," the bank said.

uhhhhhh .... duhhhh ... hello? ....

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Why aren't they pressuring Arafat to give back some of that $5 Billion dollars he stole?

[Alouette]

The Palestinian Authority's fiscal position is "precarious," the bank said, with a budget gap of about $25 million a month

Isn't that the amount Suha Arafat spends on shoes in Paris?

[Paved Paradise]

Sure - that money is going to go to the kids and for medicine. Yeah, I believe that (not).