© unknownIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem), Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011.
On Monday, Israeli Cabinet ministers decided not to release about $100 million in taxes owed to the Palestinians, the Associated Press reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers decided to accelerate illegal construction work in the occupied territories and to freeze the transfer of funds to the PA on November 1, a day after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted to admit Palestine into the organization as its newest member at its Paris headquarters.
The transfers were suspended on November 3.
An Israeli official said Tel Aviv had not stopped its policy of punishing the Palestinians. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to reveal the contents of the closed-door meeting of ministers with Netanyahu.
Every month, Israel collects about $60 million in customs duties, which is levied on goods destined for Palestinian markets through Israeli ports. The funds make up a large percentage of the PA budget.
Tel Aviv's latest move will further increase the strain on the economy of Palestine that is already in trouble due to Israeli restrictions.
The PA says it pays more than $200 million every month only in salaries and financial assistance to the neediest Palestinian families.
How could you not hate Israel?
And within a couple of months they will probably have started a nuclear WW3.
Seriously, it disturbs me the way they bring out in me a negativity, a hatred, that is alien to my life. I keep reminding myself it's Zionism, not Jewishness, but I feel like that country will reinforce any anti- semitism in the world to a hundred times it's post WW 2 amount, and for the next thousand years...
If I were Jewish I would be VERY angry at them for that alone.