Posted on 01/28/2006 6:31:32 AM PST by infocats
JERUSALEM, Jan. 27 — Hamas leaders, savoring their landslide victory in Palestinian elections, faced an array of threats on Friday: a huge government deficit, a likely cutoff of most aid, international ostracism and the rage of defeated and armed Fatah militants.
Of the many questions that the Hamas victory presents, the need to pay basic bills and salaries to Palestinians is perhaps the most pressing. The Palestinian Authority is functionally bankrupt, with a deficit of $69 million for January alone.
That will be an urgent question when the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, known as the quartet, meet in London on Monday to discuss the Palestinian vote, especially if, as some American officials fear, Hamas turns to Iran to make up some of the difference.
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Cut off the mother's milk...MONEY!
Iran will bankroll them, with strings attached.
Let them eat their bombs.
I still like Rush's idea about no aid to the "international excrement list"
Who the heck is bankrolling their terrorist activities now? It isn't Ireland. Let Iran pick up the whole tab of funding terrorists--salaries, food and all. It shouldn't be us.
Iran can't afford to bankroll them. It's one thing to provide enough funds to open school here and there, or to provide some food in small villages, it's quite another to pay for millions who are on the public payroll. Iran makes a lot of money with their oil, but their own people are living in abject poverty in most towns and villages and Amadnaginidad (sp) has promised to help the poor of Iran. He can't do both.
One upside, this will put to rest the media lie that the Palestinians just want to live in peace.
Glad you posted this as this was something I was pondering.
So what if we cut off money to the 'palestinians'. What's the downside?
They will get what they want from Iran anyway, as long as it contributes to the demise of Israel.
if the money isn't cut off from these types....
it will not bode well for the Middle East......
It will show the terrorist killers all that one
has to do is get elected and you too can receive
American money from the gullible Americans, which
can be used to kill more.
And there is probably a lot of money coming into Iran from our "friends" and going out to Hamas.
Ahmadeadjihadi.
I hope you are correct, but with the media being the media I'm not certain of your statement.
Not really, especially if we turn off the money spigot. Then they can claim that these "poor unfortunates" had no choice to but to resort to terrorism, yada yada--you know the rest of the bleeding heart spiel by heart, no doubt.
No doubt. Between Iran and Palestine, I really feel for the Israelis.
Were they slow on the uptake or was someone not telling the truth? Who lied, them or the MSM? ( I went to Europe a few times when the bent one was in office. MSM kept telling us the EUers loved him, they didn't at all. The word "gangster" kept coming up.) We know we can't trust either.
If they can't be on their best behavior, cut off their allowance.
Absolutely keerect! Time's up on that major lie. I have had a palestinian, who was living and working in this country, tell me straight out that they only care about "killing Jews", no matter where they are - Israel, the U.S., anywhere on earth. Let these people starve in their tents. Any future terrorist attacks from the palestinian side of the fence need to be treated as acts of war by a hostile "nation" and met with a swift and terrible response.
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