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Palestinian PM found with $35m in cash

dahunan

dahunan

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HUH??? This is some crazy BS... Where does this fool get the cash .. and WTF is he doing carrying it?

Palestinian PM found with $35m in cash
By Sharmila Devi in Jerusalem and agencies

Published: December 15 2006 02:19 | Last updated: December 15 2006 02:19

Israel on Thursday prevented Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, from returning to Gaza in order to stop him bringing in cash possibly donated by Iran.

Reports said Mr Haniyeh, from the Hamas movement, was carrying $35m (?26.5m, £17.8m) in cash, believed to be part of the $350m he raised during a regional tour that took in Iran, Syria and Qatar. He was later allowed entry, but without the cash.

However, anger spilt over into violence following the order to close the Rafah terminal on the Gaza-Egypt border, given by Amir Peretz, Israeli defence minister.

The closure prompted about 2,000 Hamas supporters to storm the terminal where they had a gun battle with guards. Others used explosives to blow a gap in the concrete wall dividing Gaza and Egypt.

Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas legislator, said the closure ?could lead the region to an explosion and the Zionist enemy and its allies will bear the responsibility for the consequences?.

The European Union monitoring team at Rafah said its 16 staff were evacuated and safe.

Hamas members have carried about $80m in cash into Gaza since March, when the west imposed an aid boycott aimed at bringing down the Islamic movement but which has increased poverty across the occupied territories.

The clashes at Rafah came as Hamas supporters threatened to defy any call for new elections that Fatah?s Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, may make in a speech tomorrow.

Months of negotiations between Fatah and Hamas for a national unity government have foundered, along with hopes for an easing of the western boycott. But Hamas and independent analysts say Mr Abbas has no legal authority to call early elections.

Mr Haniyeh cut short his trip abroad to deal with the internal turmoil. Hamas to-day plans to celebrate the 19th anniversary of its foundation with marches and demonstrations in Gaza.

There were clashes in Gaza and the West Bank this week after Fatah blamed Hamas for the shooting dead on Monday of three young boys who were the sons of an intelligence official loyal to Mr Abbas.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1187f320-8be0-11db-a61f-0000779e2340.html
 
Originally posted by: dahunan
CASH???????

We are talking about $35,000,000 in real money

Whatever You are blinded by your hate..
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Ya?

The article offers the most possible explanation. Not sure what your issue with this is. It seems most likely it was for keeping his Government afloat.
 
it does seem a bit crazy. maybe he wanted to use it for bombs and guns. or food for the starving babies. who knows. I suppose there are rules about carrying large amounts of cash about.
 
Originally posted by: sandorski

The article offers the most possible explanation. Not sure what your issue with this is. It seems most likely it was for keeping his Government well armed.
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Went ahead and fixed that for you.
 
he is probably bringing it in to pay salaries so people don't lose all their faith in their government.

As for weapons and such, they can smuggle those in just fine
 
So the Palestinian government is looking for other funding sources after the EU blocked its payments. Lo and behold! Wave goodbye to what little European influence on Palestine was left.
 
Others used explosives to blow a gap in the concrete wall dividing Gaza and Egypt.
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Huh? The Egyptians built a concrete wall between them and the Palastinians?????
What ruthless bastards!
 
That's a lot of money to be carrying around.


This is just more evidence that Iran is THE player in the ME now.
 
I bet he got most of it from our friends, our partners in peace, our partners in the war on terrorism, the Saudis.
 
He is carrying cash because most banks will not transfer funds to the Palestinians.
This has to do with the embargo on the government and the fact that the US has declared Hamas a terrorist organization and therefore banks won?t deal with them. (The banks don?t want to the US government coming after them or baring them from doing business with US banks.)

This is not the first time they have brought large amounts of cash in by hand. Israel stopped him this time because they had evidence that he was going to use the money for terrorists activities. Perhaps paying the salaries of all the wonderful gunmen they have running around shooting people.

It is nice to see them killing each other instead of innocent civilians though.
 
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
It is nice to see them killing each other instead of innocent civilians though.
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They are reaping the results of indoctrinating their children with hate and the Martyr-mantra.
 
corect, no banks in the region will do transfer to palestinian banks. If they do the U.S will sanction the banks.

why does Israel control the border from Egypt to Palestine?
Shouldn't Egypt control their own border?
 
Originally posted by: Aimster
why does Israel control the border from Egypt to Palestine?
Shouldn't Egypt control their own border?
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Because they would be as effective as the UN is in monitoring the Syrian-Lebanese border.
 
Originally posted by: dna
Originally posted by: Aimster
why does Israel control the border from Egypt to Palestine?
Shouldn't Egypt control their own border?
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Because they would be as effective as the UN is in monitoring the Syrian-Lebanese border.
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so then how did Egypt agree to such a thing?

Israel had to offer them something in return.

Was this part of the peace deal?
 
Originally posted by: Aimster
Originally posted by: dna
Originally posted by: Aimster
why does Israel control the border from Egypt to Palestine?
Shouldn't Egypt control their own border?
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Because they would be as effective as the UN is in monitoring the Syrian-Lebanese border.
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so then how did Egypt agree to such a thing?

Israel had to offer them something in return.

Was this part of the peace deal?
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Originally, Israel was in control of all of the Gaza borders.

Egypt may not have wanted the headaches of monitoring/enforcing the Gaza boarder when Israel pulled out.

Technically, it still is a Egyptian/Israel border with the Palestinians have some autonomy on the Gaza side. Because the Palestinians have not shown that they can be trusted to enforce the laws (turning blind eye on smuggling by the militants); Israel maintains the security/control of the border crossings on their side of the border

 
Horrible they need to be able to pay the workers. As much as you all want to believe that this 35 million goes towards weaponry, right now in Palestine getting PAID by the government is a huge, and probably the number ONE issue of importance. We'll have people who have been working nine ten months without a consistent pay check simply because the Palestinian Authority cannot pay them.

Think about what happens to people who no longer get paid to work...will they sit idly by doing nothing, or will they end up taking arms against that who is perceived to prevent the influx of money?
Israel is doing a massive diservice to itself through these actions, and it should be apparant to people on both sides of the conflict that while it may increase disatisfacation with HAMAS - it ultimately will lead to a greater sour feeling with Israel...
 
Sounds like an act of war by Israel, in interfering with the sovereign activities of the Palastenian government. The US and Israel are fighting democracy in the Palastenian society.

The same people here who react with outrage at the Iranians donating to factions are not too consistent when it comes to similar outrage that the US is the #1 seller of arms in the world, and has more culpability if such activities are wrong. More of the 'our excrement smells sweet' school of thinking.
 
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