Word: palestinians
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Even if Hamas does not change, Hamas’ victory has already begun to transform the Fatah Party, a welcome development. Under Yasir Arafat and recently Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah Party presided over one of the most corrupt and incompetent organizations in the world. Arafat used the Palestinian Authority treasury as his personal cashbox to buy loyalty and to support a maze of security services. It is estimated that Arafat and his corrupt cronies pocketed almost half of the seven billion dollars in foreign aid contributed to the Palestinian Authority. Sadly, only ten percent of the Palestinian state budget ever...
Recently, Hamas assumed power in the Palestinian territories, an event newspapers and political pundits around the world hailed as catastrophic. The New York Times headline read “A Huge Step Back.” The Daily News announced, “Hamas Wins, Peace Loses.” And The Washington Post warned that it will “unsettle the world.” In fact, the situation is not as terrible as the national media has made it out to be. This event will, refreshingly, force Hamas to make dramatic choices that will reveal the involved...
...beliefs as Prime Minister had changed so drastically from his far-right days as founder of the Likud Party, Sharon replied, “things look different from here than they do from there.” Maybe Hamas will also see things differently now that it heads the Palestinian Authority. If they do, they will have even more clout in building a lasting peace because they have caused much of the terrorism in the past...
...hesitation. I'm concerned about it independently of the issue of whether it would harm Israeli interests or not. It's enough that it should do something bad for innocent human beings that I will want to prevent it. That doesn't mean I have to cooperate with the Palestinian government. We have to find a way how to help the people without helping a government that can easily use these funds that will be transferred to them for different purposes altogether without any sense of regret or responsibility for the human needs of the population. We promise we will...
...Olmert: Don't expect us to release the money to the Palestinian government. This is a terrorist government and there's no way I can be sure that the money I release will go to the needs you want them for. They might go for financing terror - to Bin Laden, to Hezbollah - I have no idea. If we release the money it will not go through the Palestinian administration...