Israel releases withheld tax revenues to Palestinian Authority

[oberliner]

Israel will allow the transfer of hundreds of millions of shekels in tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, the prime minister's bureau announced on Friday.

The revenues, which Israel collects on behalf of the authority, have been withheld for the past four months following the authority's referral of Israel to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for possible war crimes.

The bureau said in its statement that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted the recommendation of Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, the Israel Defense Forces, and the Shin Bet security service that the revenues be transferred.

Israel will transfer tax revenues that have accumulated since February, less payments for services provided by Israeli entities, including the Israel Electricity Corporation, the water authority and hospitals.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.649238

[Little Tich]

1. This is what apartheid looks like.

The PA doesn't even have a right to access its own revenues; they literally have to beg for their own money.

[oberliner]

2. No, it isn't

Apartheid was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation.

[Little Tich]

3. It was once.

Nowadays, apartheid is the correct term for describing when one ethnic group is using of the rule of law to oppress another ethnic group. If apartheid wasn’t such a commonly used term already, another term would have to be invented to describe what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.

[Mosby]

5. Except that's not reality

The Palestinians need to negotiate a settlement, no one is stopping them from doing that. A negotiated settlement is the position of the UN security council, surely you know that.

Do you think the Palestinians are not capable of doing anything for themselves, like they are children or something?

Sure seems like it.

[Little Tich]

6. I was actually referring to the Bantustan analogy.

Just like in Apartheid SA, the PA only has the powers that Israel deigns to give it, and these powers can be taken back at any time. Remember that it's Nitzan Alon of the IDF who is the leader of the West Bank, and the PA is only operating under his control.

[Scootaloo]

4. So your argument is "only in South Africa!"

Go back to predicting kadima landslides and justifying the shooting of children, oberliner.