Jerusalem Hits Back At Claims It Is Causing Collapse Of Palestinian Authority

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Source: Jerusalem Post

The officials were responding to consistent claims from top US and EU officials that if the money is not transferred soon the PA may fall apart or stop security cooperation with Israel.

By HERB KEINON \
02/23/2015 01:00

Assertions that the Palestinian Authority is on the verge of collapse because Israel is withholding the monthly tax revenue it collects and transfers to Ramallah are exaggerated, Israeli officials said Sunday.

The officials were responding to consistent claims from top US and EU officials, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, that if the money is not transferred soon the PA may fall apart or stop its security cooperation with Israel.

Kerry, during a press conference Saturday in London, said he discussed with his British counterpart Philip Hammond “concerns that we share about the continued viability of the Palestinian Authority if they do not receive funds soon.”

“If the Palestinian Authority ceases or were to cease, security cooperation – or even decide to disband as a result of their economic predicament, and that could happen in the near future if they don’t receive additional revenues – then we would be faced with yet another crisis that could also greatly impact the security of both Palestinians and Israelis,” he said. “And that would have the potential of serious ripple effects elsewhere in the region.”


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1. At some point the Palestinians are going to give up...

...on the "two state solution", whether this is caused by the fall of the PA or not.

At that point, it becomes a struggle for equality and equal rights as Israelis.

Things like the right to vote, and the right to full citizenship.

See South Africa for how that proceeds.

Hopefully it will be a nonviolent struggle for civil rights.

[DetlefK]

3. Israel will never allow that to happen: A unified Israel has way more palestinian voters than Jews.

[android fan]

6. Palestinians are not Israeli citizens

so how is it South Africa?

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7. If they give up on the two state solution...

...the right to full citizenship in their own country becomes imperative.

Nobody wants to be a non-citizen in their own country.

[Dwight42]

2. Perhaps Kerry should tell Israel

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Perhaps Kerry should tell Israel that if they don't transfer these funds that the US will give the Palestinians the funds owed from the billions the US taxpayers gives Israel in foreign aid by deducting it from that account.

I don't have much faith is such an arrangement because the tail is wagging the dog.

History will show that this unholy alliance caused the wars in the Middle East, bankrupting the USA and will be looked upon as something that set civilization back centuries; that is if the human population can survive the horrors of war, political corruption and the pollution created by the energy industry.

[bemildred]

5. Bibi needs the money. nt

[Adrahil]

8. Yeah, have you seen the state of his servants' house?

That place needs a spruce up.... on our dime, of course!