Israel to Abu Mazen: Stop Funding Terrorists
This was released today by the Prime Minister's Office.
You should share it as much as possible on social media.
Let's go to the videotape.
It goes to the core of the question of whether there CAN be a 'peace process.' Right now, the answer is clearly 'no.'
And the Trump administration - unlike its predecessor -
seems to get it:
If you want to stop terrorists, you shouldn’t be rewarding them or their families for their heinous acts.
The White House seems to get that: On Wednesday, Al-Quds
reported that Team Trump will demand the Palestinian Authority end its
practice of paying terrorists and their families and stop funding Hamas.
The demand is part of a White House plan to restart
Israel-PA peace talks — the subject of a May 3 meeting between Trump and
PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
Peace talks or not, Trump is right to demand an end to
rewards for those who slaughter innocents. However fair Palestinians’
political gripes might be, it doesn’t justify terror.
Plus, as we’ve noted before, US taxpayers fund the PA — and they surely don’t want their cash rewarding terrorists.
Stopping those payments won’t be easy. The PA has dodged
past efforts to halt them, and Abbas himself regularly encourages terror
attacks.
If only American Jews got it half as much as the White House does.
In the meantime, there was
yet another terror attack in Tel Aviv today....
Labels: Abu Mazen, Binyamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, martyrs salaries, Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian terrorism, prisoner salaries
Bibi Baby what took you so long? Netanyahu to finally cut off terrorist 'salaries'
If you find it incredible that the United States and the European Union have long been
supporting a 'Palestinian Authority'
budget that includes '
salaries' to
imprisoned and 'martyred'
terrorists, please consider this: Money is fungible. Israel also gives money to the 'Palestinian Authority' and is therefore also supporting 'Palestinian' terrorism. Today - finally - after
yet another terror attack, Prime Minister Netanyahu has taken the
first tentative steps in changing that equation.
The deceased man was named as named as Miki Mark, director of a nearby yeshiva, and the Ynet news site reported that he was a cousin of Mossad chief Yossi Cohen.
Hospital staff said a 40-year-old woman was seriously wounded, a
14-year-old girl suffered moderate-to-severe wounds, and a 15-year-old
boy was lightly wounded. The wounded are believed to be his wife and
children.
...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered after the attack that "the
entire amount of support for terrorists and their families be deducted
from the tax revenues that Israel transfers monthly to the Palestinian
Authority" to counteract money transfers from the Palestinian Authority
commonly given to attackers' families.
Yes, but money is fungible, and clearly paying terrorist salaries is a priority for the 'Palestinians.' The only way to stop it is for all governments everywhere to cut off all aid to the 'Palestinian Authority' until the terrorist salaries stop. That won't happen. But this is at least a first step.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, martyrs salaries, Palestinian terrorism, prisoner salaries
Amazing speech by a young 'Palestinian' woman
This was sent to me by Andreas F, a reader in Norway. He writes:
This is truly an amazing speech that was recently held at a Swedish
university by a brave young Palestinian woman. She speaks out against
the 'Palestinian Authority' and the Palestinian society in general... And
she says she supports the building of the security barrier, even when it
created problems for her family. She explains how Palestinian children
are taught to attack Israeli soldiers and die in battle.
She takes the hypocrisy head on and explains how twisted parts of the Palestinian society
is. Please take the time to watch this... An amazing 25-minute speech.
This brave woman had to flee to England because of death threats from 'Palestinians.'
Let's go to the videotape.
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian children, Palestinian incitement, Palestinians, terrorist martyrs
'Palestinians' accuse Netanyahu of preveting a 'constructive solution' to the 'crisis'
Responding to Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision to cut off contacts with the 'Palestinian Authority,' a 'Palestinian' spokesman has accused the Prime Minister of preventing a '
constructive solution' to the current 'crisis' in the 'peace talks.'
"This decision undermines all international efforts ... to revive the
negotiations, to proceed with a constructive solution to the challenges
facing the peace process," said PA spokesman Ehab Bseiso.
Israeli and Palestinian officials cooperate on civilian issues such as
the environment, water and energy, but Bseiso said this usually does not
entail face-to-face meetings.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority said Israeli-Palestinian
ministerial meetings were rare but voiced concern that the step could be
followed by economic sanctions.
Got to keep the money flowing into
Hamas' coffers in Gaza and into the
terrorists' bank accounts, don't we?
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Hamas, martyrs salaries, Middle East peace process, Palestinian tax transfers, prisoner salaries
World complains about every apartment built in Israel but is silent on 'Palestinian' incitement
After a translation showed that 'Palestinian' radio told its listeners ten days ago that '
one day there will be no Israel,' Prime Minister Netanyahu's spokesman Mark Regev said on Monday that the world complains about every announcement of 'settlement' construction, but has
nothing to say about 'Palestinian' incitement.
Regev’s comments,
just days before a second round of peace talks expected in
Jericho, were in response to comments made by an announcer on the Palestinian
Authority’s official Voice of Palestine, who said that “one day” there will be
no Israel and “Palestine will be Palestine again.”
Regev also cited a
drama running on Palestinian television which he said showed Palestinians –
after a Hamas-Fatah reconciliation – attacking a Jew and cutting off his ear-locks. “While this incitement is happening, we hear a deafening silence from
the international community,” he said.
“When Israel builds in areas which
everyone understands will remain part of Israel in a final-status agreement,
this is somehow perceived as a problem for peace. When Palestinians indoctrinate
their people with hatred for Israel, and thereby directly undermine
reconciliation, this is ignored.
“What is required of leadership at this
time is to prepare the public for respect and reconciliation. But what we
are seeing from the Palestinians is the opposite: continued demonization, stress
on maximalist goals and that Israel is an illegitimate creation that will
eventually disappear.”
The United States has responded by making another donation of $148 million to the 'Palestinian Authority' on behalf of the American taxpayer. And there are
$4 billion more where that came from.
The aid was delivered “to help the Palestinian Authority avert
a budget crisis and to support US efforts to achieve a two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” a US official told The Jerusalem Post.
In
his memorandum to Secretary of State John Kerry issuing the waiver of
restriction of funds, President Barack Obama said that the aid “is important to
the national security interests of the Unites States.”
The waiver is in
line with previous waivers exercised by this and previous administrations, the
official said.
“Direct budget support to the PA is the most immediate and
efficient means of helping the PA maintain and build the foundations of a
viable, peaceful Palestinian state,” the official added.
“There has been
a recurring budget crisis in the PA, year in and year out, for as long as anyone
can remember,” said David Pollock, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute
for Near East Policy. “But even though the PA is short of cash, the Palestinian
economy in the West Bank is showing pretty good signs of life.”
Roughly
half of the PA budget is spent on Gaza, which provides the government with
little return but is required to continue its linkage with the troubled
Palestinian strip. The $148 million will likely be spent on PA salaries, Pollock
said.
In other words, it's going to be spent on
terrorists in Israeli prisons, their
families, and the families of '
martyrs.' And of course, to
Hamas.
What could go wrong?
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian Authority donors, prisoner salaries, US economy
Gas stations shut off pumps for 'Palestinian' security
This is rich. Gas stations across Judea and Samaria are no longer accepting 'Palestinian Authority' vouchers to fill the tanks of 'Palestinian security' vehicles. It seems that the 'Palestinian Authority' hasn't paid its bills in months, and the gas stations have decided that
enough is enough.
The PA Finance Ministry has not reimbursed fuel vouchers for five
months, and on Tuesday a network of fuel distributors announced it would
stop letting the security forces fill up for free.
They say the security services will be able to fill up their tanks until Thursday, after which they will be refused.
Ma'an
has learned that the Finance Ministry only started paying January's
fuel vouchers on Sunday. On Tuesday, they were expected to pay
February's bills.
But the owners of gas stations say they will
not let them take fuel after Thursday if the ministry does not pay all
its debts by then.
A Finance Ministry spokesman declined to comment.
Hey morons - stop paying the terrorists and start paying your bills!
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian economy, prisoner salaries
'Palestinian Authority' says they're $4.2 billion in debt
New 'Palestinian' 'Prime Minister'
Rami Hamdallah has
no experience in government or politics, and he's starting out facing a 'more than difficult' financial crisis caused by
skyrocketing debt.
Mustafa, who was speaking to reporters in
Ramallah following the new PA government’s first weekly meeting, said that the
PA’s local debts were estimated at $1.2 billion - $600 million to banks and $480
million to the Palestinian Petroleum Authority.
Mustafa serves as deputy
prime minister for economic affairs – a job that makes him the de facto finance
minister.
Until his appointment last week, Mustafa served as director of
the PLO’s Palestine Investment Fund.
The PA’s external debts, he said,
have reached $1 billion. Failure to pay this debt has resulted in fines
estimated at $100 million, Mustafa added.
The PA also owes another $1
billion to the Palestinian Pension Fund, he said.
He said that the PA was
in need of financial aid to pay salaries to its employees in the coming
months.
The PA will have to increase tax collection, cut expenses and
seek additional funding from donor countries, Mustafa said.
There are some obvious ways for the 'Palestinian Authority' to cut expenses. One is to stop paying
salaries to terrorists and their families, including to those who
belong to Hamas. That would cut
6% of the budget right there. Then if they laid off some of their ubiquitous 'security services' and consolidated the rest like they were supposed to do years ago, that would cut the budget more. Of course, to do that without leaving people to starve, they'd have to develop an economy, and the 'Palestinians' have done nothing on that front in the nearly 20 years since Oslo.
So they'll probably go out schnorring again.
What could go wrong?
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian economy, prisoner salaries, Rami Hamdullah
World Bank doing what 'Palestinian Authority' should do
Only the 'Palestinians' get these kinds of individualized benefits from the 'international community.' Since the 'Palestinian Authority' is too busy spending its budget on salaries for imprisoned terrorists, the World Bank is going to step in and do what every other government in the world does, or is supposed to do:
The World Bank is creating real jobs for 'Palestinians.'
The World Bank wants to help provide 55,000 new part-time job opportunities over
the next five years for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza through an
emerging online phenomenon called microwork.
The sophisticated web-based
assembly lines allow people anywhere in the world to work from home for global
companies by completing micro tasks on the Internet.
The World Bank plans
to hold a microwork pilot study in the Palestinian territories, but no exact
date has been set.
“Palestinian youth are increasingly tech-savvy, so the
potential for IT-based forms of economic engagement, which can cross virtual
borders, can be an exciting leap forward,” said Mariam Sherman, the World Bank
country director for the West Bank and Gaza.
On Wednesday the bank
publicly released a feasibility study, “Microwork for the Palestinian
Territories,” that explored the pros and cons of such global
outsourcing.
It explained that microwork provides mass employment for
people in developing countries, particularly young people and women.
The
jobs can be done anywhere at anytime by people with computers or smart phones,
according to the report.
“Microwork’s unique value proposition is that it
can be performed anywhere at any time across geographical boundaries, using
commonly available computers and Internet connections,” said Siou Chew Kuek, ICT
policy specialist at the World Bank.
“It is particularly relevant to the
Palestinian territories, as it enables local youth and women to access jobs in
the global knowledge economy.”
Microwork by day and terrorists by night (or vice versa). Maybe they can even provide jobs for terrorists in Israeli prisons so that they can increase their income beyond their 'Palestinian Authority' salaries.
What could go wrong?
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian economy, prisoner salaries, World Bank
Netanyahu resumes terrorist funding transfers to 'Palestinians'
Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided to
resume the transfer of tax moneys to the 'Palestinian Authority.' Some of the tax moneys are used to pay salaries to terrorists held in Israeli jails.
Netanyahu withheld the transfer of tax revenues collected for the PA in the aftermath of the Palestinian statehood upgrade at the UN in November.
Since, Israel has evaluated the transfer of the tax revenues to the PA on a month-by-month basis. Monday's directive appeared to normalize the tax transfers, cancelling the monthly reviews.
The
aid-dependent Palestinian Authority has been in a financial crisis
fueled by a drop in assistance from Western and wealthy Gulf backers,
renewed tensions with Israel and a need to meet an expanding public
sector payroll.
The International Monetary Fund warned earlier
this month that the Palestinian Authority's fiscal situation was
"increasingly precarious."
The IMF called for urgent action to help it close a gaping budget deficit and to stabilize the economy.
The United States confirmed over the weekend that it was releasing nearly $500 million in aid which had been frozen to the PA.
However, a PA official consequently warned that the financial crisis in the West Bank was not over despite the US aid.
"Only
$200 million of the $480 million from the United States will go to the
Treasury, and the rest will be go to USAID-funded projects," the
Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency quoted PA Labor Minister Ahmad
Majdalani as saying on Saturday.
He added that of the $1.3
billion in aid pledged to the PA from various donor countries in 2012,
only some $800 million had actually been transferred.
The IMF
urged the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority to draw up contingency
plans that include spending cuts. It also said the Authority should look
at ways to boost growth, which is forecast at roughly 4.0 percent
between 2013 to 2016.
The IMF said unemployment had increased to
almost a quarter of the labor force by the end of 2012, with
unemployment among the youth particularly high.
In the past few
months, the Authority has failed to pay full salaries to its 160,000
employees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, territory controlled by the
rival Hamas Islamist movement.
What could go wrong?
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, martyrs salaries, Palestinian donors' conference, Palestinian tax transfers, prisoner salaries
Your tax dollars at work: Obama gives 'Palestinian Authority' $500 million
President Obama's State Department announced on Friday that the President has quietly
released some $500 million in aid money to the 'Palestinian Authority' over the last couple of weeks (Hat Tip:
Sooper Mexican via
Bad Blue).
QUESTION: Can I ask on Palestinian aid? There’s reporting out
of the region that the funds have actually been unblocked kind of a bit
quietly over the last couple of weeks, the 200 million that was held up
in Congress, and that’s now been received by the Palestinian Authority.
MS. NULAND: Jo, I don’t – I’m just finding it here. I did go
through this about a week ago in some detail. I can do it again for you.
To date, we have moved $295.7 million in Fiscal Year 2012 money, 200
million of that – see, this – numbers don’t – oh, and 200 million in
Fiscal Year 2013 assistance. So breaking that down again, 200 million in
FY2013 ESF money was direct budget support for the Palestinian
Authority; 195.7 million in FY12 Economic Support money went for
development and humanitarian assistance implemented by USAID; 100
million in FY2012 for International Narcotics Control and Law
Enforcement; and then in February – at the end of February we notified
Congress about another 200 million that we’d like to move.
QUESTION: So you’ve moved the 295 --
MS. NULAND: Total of 295.7 in FY12 and 200 in FY13. Why don’t we go through it again afterwards if you need to?
QUESTION: That’s been moved, okay.
MS. NULAND: Mm-hmm.
QUESTION: And then 200 is still – you want another further 200?
MS. NULAND: Correct. We’ve notified.
Aren't you glad that the President has his priorities straight? The 'sequester' is cutting control towers at 149 airports, but priorities man, priorities. The 'Palestinian Authority' really needs their aid money for those
terrorist salaries. What the.....
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, martyrs salaries, Palestinian terrorism, prisoner salaries, US foreign aid
Norway 'discovers' that its money is funding terrorism
Surely Norway is not the only European country whose aid money to the 'Palestinians' is being used to fund terrorism. But they were probably
the most righteously indignant about it.
The Palestinian Authority misled Oslo when it claimed Norwegian aid
money was not used to reward the murderers of Israelis, Norway’s foreign
minister said.
Espen Barth Eide said Monday in a statement that “it is unfortunate
that the incorrect information obtained from the Palestinian Authority
was communicated to the Parliament.” The statement was quoted in an
article by the daily Dagen.
Anders Anundsen, a lawmaker for the Progress Party, said the
government has long claimed that Norwegian aid did not go to
Palestinians who are incarcerated in Israeli jails for murders and
terrorist activities. The Palestinian Authority has pledged monthly
payments to Palestinian prisoners in Israel since 2003 and raised
payments by as much as 300 percent in 2011, according to Israel’s
Channel 2 television network.
Eide’s statement came after the ministry received new information
that revealed “major difference to what we have assumed, according to
earlier information we received from the P.A.,” the minister's statement
said.
Norway's foreign ministry brought up the subject last week during a
meeting between its representatives and Palestinian Authority Prime
Minister Salam Fayyad, according to Eide.
"In this meeting we also took up the dispensation and the level of
subsidy for the prisoners, and we clearly expressed that we found this
to be problematic," Eide said. "We also noted the new information on
this issue differs from earlier information provided by the P.A. We also
stated that we find this unfortunate.”
They can't say they weren't warned.
Money is fungible, so any country that is giving money to the 'Palestinians' is funding the payments to terrorists highlighted in the excerpt above. And many more countries are probably financing the terrorist payments directly.
Labels: martyrs salaries, Norway, Palestinian solidarity with Norway, Palestinian terrorists, prisoner salaries
This is rich: PA 'borrowing' money to pay 'salaries'
The 'Palestinian Authority' is '
borrowing' money to pay 'salaries' at the end of the month.
The Palestinian Authority announced, Thursday, that it intends to
borrow about $100 million from PA banks to pay some of the November
salaries it owes its employees. A senior treasury official said half the
salary will be paid in the coming week.
The leadership in
Ramallah is demanding the convening of an emergency meeting of Arab
foreign ministers at the end of the month to discuss the PA's financial
distress.
When has the PA ever done anything other than borrow or schnorr to pay anything? It's not like they produce anything on their own other than terrorists.
And the salaries will undoubtedly include a huge chunk for the 'prisoners' and the 'martyrs.'
What could go wrong?
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian Authority corruption, prisoner salaries
Israel gives 'Palestinians' NIS 200 million reward for UN gambit
The government of Israel has decided to give the 'Palestinian Authority' a NIS 200 million reward for their UN gambit by
transferring that amount of 'tax money' to the 'Palestinian Authority' just two days before the UN vote. Of course, as usual,
much of that money will go to pay the salaries of the PA's 'employees' in Gaza (you know, the ones who bragged that
they shot 516 rockets at Israel last week), to
pay Hamas, and to pay the '
salaries' of 'Palestinian'
terrorists in Israeli jails.
The transfer of the money, 200 million shekels, took place just two
days before the vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the PA’s
unilateral bid to become a non-member observer state.
The transfer was done despite recent threats by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that if the PA goes ahead with its statehood bid, he will work to ensure the entity collapses.
Army Radio noted that Israel has said it would not take
extreme steps in response to the PA’s statehood bid but has continued to
threaten to freeze the funds it transfers to the PA each month. Despite
this threat, however, and despite PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s
statements that he does not intend to back down from the move, Israel
transferred the funds on Tuesday.
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, who has also threatened the PA with sanctions if it goes ahead with its bid, told Army Radio on Wednesday that Israel would respond to the move at the correct time and place.
“If the Palestinian Authority thinks it will attack us in the UN in
such a harsh way and will continue to benefit from the cooperation with
us, I think that some surprises await it,” said Steinitz.
If only our politicians had the courage of their convictions....
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian Authority donors, Palestinian economy, Palestinian terrorists, prisoner salaries
Hitting Hamas in its pocket
The IDF destroyed the
National Islamic Bank branch in Gaza City on Monday night.
The Israel Air Force struck the National Islamic Bank in Gaza City overnight Monday, Al Jazeera reported.
According to the report, Hamas uses the bank to pay its employees
Four people were injured in the air strike, Al Jazeera reported.
How will the 'Palestinian Authority' transfer all its 'salaries' to Gaza this month? For that matter, how will the
government of Israel and the 'international community' transfer money to Gaza? Boo. Hoo.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, martyrs salaries, Operation Pillar of Defense, prisoner salaries
And again: Netanyahu and Steinitz donate our tax money money to pay terrorists' salaries
Eight months ago, Israel
decided to withhold money from the 'Palestinian Authority' due to its admission to UNESCO. No more. Now, with the 'Palestinians' once again
plotting their unilateral admission to the United Nations, the Netanyahu-Lieberman-Steinitz government has decided to
donate NIS 180 million to the 'Palestinian Authority' to pay
salaries to terrorists for Ramadan. This is from the third link.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz made the decision, one of a number of gestures made since the beginning of the year in an attempt to improve relations with the PA and encourage its President Mahmoud Abbas to renew some kind of dialogue with Israel.
Senior government officials said that the decision to transfer the funds – an advance on money that is to be transferred in the coming months – was made before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit last week, and was not the result of a US request.
In addition, the government’s economic cabinet recently decided to increase by approximately 5,000 the number of Palestinian construction workers allowed to work in the country.
The officials stressed that this quota would be subtracted from the number of foreign workers allowed into Israel and would not come at the expense of Israeli workers.
...
One senior official said this move was taken in the hope that it will “improve the atmosphere.”
Noting that the PA was currently facing a severe budgetary crisis, the official said that this money helped the PA pay its salaries before Ramadan, and was part of Israel’s policy of trying to “preserve the Palestinian economy.”
The last goodwill gesture Israel made to the PA was in May when it handed over the bodies of more than 90 terrorists. That move resulted from a meeting between Abbas and Netanyahu’s envoy, Yitzhak Molcho.
I don't see any improvement in the atmosphere as a result of the previous 'gestures' and I doubt there will be any improvement because of this one. It reminds me of Einstein's definition of stupidity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
I also fail to see why paying salaries to terrorists is a necessity for preserving the 'Palestinian' economy, and even if it were a necessity, it's not a role that Israel ought to be playing.
Finally, if you look at the numbers, this 'advance' was nearly two months' worth of transfers. At the same time, we have Israelis who pay taxes to our government who have no place to live.
What could go wrong?
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian Authority donors, Palestinian economy, Palestinian terrorists, prisoner salaries
Priorities: 'Palestinian Authority' increases payments to terrorists
Despite its supposed 'financial crisis,' the 'Palestinian Authority' has
increased its monthly payments to terrorists being held in Israeli prisons, and to families of 'martyrs.'
Despite a reported financial crisis preventing the Palestinian Authority from paying its workers their full salaries, the PA has managed to increase the monthly payments it gives to terrorists imprisoned in Israel, according to Reshet Bet.
Those serving a sentence of up to 3 years in prison will get 1,400 shekels a month, while those serving longer sentences will get up to 4,000 a month.
Aren't you glad they're putting your taxes (
with which they
pay those 'salaries') to such good use? Just think what they'll do if they ever (God forbid) get a 'state.'
I know. Let's give them some more money so that they can make up their budget 'shortfall.' What could go wrong?
Labels: martyrs salaries, Palestinian terrorists, prisoner salaries
Brits discover 'Palestinians' paying terrorists
Britain has now discovered that a significant portion of their aid money to the 'Palestinian Authority' is going to pay 'Palestinian'
prisoners terrorists and the families of suicide bombers.
The Palestinian Authority, which gets £86million of British aid a year, has authorised payments of almost £5million to the families of ‘martyrs’.
Another £3million has been given to 5,500 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. The payments, using taxpayers’ cash donated from Britain and the European Union, have been described as ‘ludicrous’ by one Tory MP.
The Palestinian Authority, which oversees the West Bank, has introduced a new law which pays the families of suicide bombers out of its civil service budget.
According to the official Palestinian daily newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, payments to the families of ‘martyrs’ – those killed fighting Israel, including suicide bombers – totalled 3.5 per cent of the budget.
‘Every terrorist in prison, including those whose acts led to the deaths of Israeli civilians, are on the PA payroll,’ said Itamar Marcus, of Palestinian Media Watch.
‘The salary goes directly to the terrorist or the terrorist’s family, and prisoners receive their salaries from the day of arrest.’
Tory MP Philip Davies said the payments were ‘ludicrous’. He added: ‘People think overseas aid is to try to alleviate terrible poverty in places where they can’t afford to look after themselves. But it’s being put to these kind of purposes.
‘It would be bad enough at the best of times, but at a time when we have got no money, it is utterly inexcusable.’
...
David Cameron has admitted that the controversial pledge to spend billions more on international aid was a ‘difficult commitment’ at a time when spending programmes were being slashed at home.
The Prime Minister admitted that some aid had been ‘wasted’, but continued to dismiss ‘aid sceptics’.
Your tax schillings at work. Why be skeptical? What could go wrong?
Labels: European foreign aid, martyrs salaries, Palestinian prisoners, prisoner salaries, terrorist martyrs
