Why Anti-Israel Incitement and Terrorism from the PA, PLO, and Fatah Continues
Calling for Mahmoud Abbas — president of the PA, chairman of the PLO, and head of Fatah — to condemn the terrorist attack in Itamar and to end incitement is meaningless.
Fatah, the main party in the PLO, is committed to violence. The Sixth Fatah Conference (2009) affirmed all forms of resistance, including armed struggle. Resistance to Israeli “occupation,” as Palestinians see it, is not only legitimate but honored.
Although there is no evidence that the PA, PLO, and Fatah are actively involved in terrorist activities, they support anti-Israel incitement and “popular resistance.” Local gangs and “sleeper cells” acting on their own and even loosely affiliated with Fatah/al Aksa Brigades carry out terrorist attacks, but — unlike their role under Yassir Arafat — are not officially sanctioned by the PA.
While international funding to Palestinian and pro-Palestinian organizations may not be used directly to fund terrorism by donor law, these funds are used in the war of words against Israel with devastating success.
Said Abbas: “We do not wish to turn to armed struggle, because our [lack of] capabilities and the international atmosphere do not allow for it.” Appealing to Palestinian leadership to abjure incitement and violence, therefore, is absurd when that is part of their agenda. They could not stop violence or recognize Israel’s right to exist even if they wanted to. It’s in the PLO charter.
Playing a diplomatic game of promoting an ostensible “peace partner” undermines Israel’s position by fostering the delusion of peace through negotiations. Lavishly funded and enjoying wide international support, Palestinians have no incentive to change. Understanding the money pipeline, therefore, is critical.
From 1994 to 2005, the PA received $4.67 billion. Where did it go?
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “The Palestinian Authority deducts 1.5% to 2.0% from the salaries of security forces for Fatah membership fees. The close connection between the Palestinian Authority and Fatah allows the PA to redistribute this money to Fatah activities.” What might those activities be?
Between 2008 and 2010, the EU gave €692 million to the PA, € 477.9 million for PA “salaries and pensions,” and € 105.97 million for “vulnerable Palestinian families.”
According to an EU spokesperson, EU member states added “a further €265.32 million (all figures in millions): Austria, €2.0; Belgium, €9.0; Finland, €5.0; Germany, €65.0; Greece, €0.5; Hungary, €0.2; Ireland, €6.0; Italy, €27.0; Luxembourg, €1.0; Malta, €0.15; Netherlands, €28.77; Slovenia, €0.15; Spain, €78.0; Sweden, €20.42; UK, €20.8. This figure also includes a contribution of €1.33 million from Switzerland. Some member states have also contributed to the World Bank Trust Fund; however, the World Bank does not report on individual national contributions to the Trust Fund.”
“No money has gone to terrorist organizations or individuals linked to them. The system in place makes sure only established agencies (for example, UNRWA) are used.”
The EU did not explain what their control mechanism is, or what guarantees full performance.
The EU also supports the PA’s moves towards statehood. “In June 2010, the EU committed more than €210 million for the Palestinian Authority’s recurrent expenditure. A further €69 million were allocated for social and economic development and institution-building projects in support of the Palestinian Authority’s ‘Two Year Plan for Statehood’ announced in August 2009.”
“The Palestinian Authority received $525 million of international aid to support its budget in the first half of 2010, following $1.4 billion last year and $1.8 billion in 2008, according to World Bank estimates.” The PA received $929 million in 2001, $891 million in 2003, and $1.1 billion in 2005.
According to a CRS report to the U.S. Congress: “Since the formation of a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government in March 2006, the U.S. Administration has suspended its foreign assistance program in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. U.S. policy makers have stated that foreign aid cannot resume until Hamas, a U.S. State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), renounces, among other things, its commitment to the destruction of the state of Israel and the use of terrorist violence.” The U.S. does not include Fatah as a terrorist organization.
Yet, “the U.S. provided the PA with $500.9 million in 2009,” $600 million in 2010, and “… $550 million in 2011. This assistance does not include U.S. financial support for UNRWA, an agency devoted exclusively to providing welfare benefits to Palestinians while subordinating itself to a Palestinian political agenda. The U.S. is the single largest donor to UNRWA. Last year the $268 million U.S. taxpayers gave the UN agency constituted 27 percent of UNRWA’s budget.”
“The U.S. provided $350 million to the PA for security and program assistance in 2010 in addition to $150 million in direct budgetary support, while the EU gave the PA more than €230 million ($315 million).”
In addition, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have contributed (estimated) billions to fund Palestinian terrorist groups and jihadist anti-Israel incitement.
The state of Israel is also complicit. In 2010 it transferred NIS 4.6 billion to the PA, which is unrestricted.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the PA pays monthly salaries to Hamas terrorists in Israeli prisons, and supports families of terrorists. Meanwhile, Cpl. Gilad Shalit remains a prisoner of Hamas, in isolation and incommunicado.
What has all of this money bought? Incitement is central to the Palestinian agenda and is supported by the U.S., EU, and the UN, so why should they stop as long as the money flows?
NOT only are PA/Hamas terrorists motivated to continue their jihad via monetary incentives, but the heads of online forums have jumped onboard by allowing them to use their resources.
Consider:there is a FACEBOOK Page actively ! recruiting people to join the ‘Third Intifada’.There are over 300,000 plus posters calling for Israel’s destruction, urging Arabs to use the same mass uprisings as those sweeping the Middle East.Israeli MK’s have written to Zuckerberg to pull this terror page down, however, so far he hasn’t responded.Hmmm….
Well, while Zuckerberg and Co can surely be accused of allowing terror inciters to be posted at the site, it is also true that Zionists can push back and use the same tactics.
Where is it written that Arab/Muslim terrorists are the only ones allowed to call for war?Therefore, I heartily propose a counter move, a page at FACEBOOK calling on ALL Zionists-particularly those in Israel, but also ‘backed up’ by worldwide Zionists through any means possible-to join forces.
To wit, while the main thrust of the war is left to the IDF forces, it is a fact that they are tightly constrained(placed on tight leashes) to toe the political leaders orders due to Washington and other machinations.Nevertheless,
Zionists on the streets have no such restrictions.
In a normal realm the rule of law is imperative in order to function as a proper society.HOWEVER, when people on the Arab streets are incited to go for your throat, the normal response is to defend oneself.IF someone comes to kill you, you are obligated ! to kill them first.
So, Jews have got to get over their holier than thou complex as the civilized ones to the conflict.One cannot win a war if one is afraid to fight to the finish.This IS a fact.
IF Zuckerberg will not do the right thing and pull this page of terror, then most assuredly Zionists must organize one of their own.It is WAY past time to be the only civilized party to what is a war to the death.
WHY HAMAS RESUMMED TERROR ATTACKS ON ISRAEL
After being relatively quiet for 27 months since the end of the Gaza War why has violent, murdering, genocidal Hamas unleashed a wave of terrorist attacks on Isreal with rockets slamming into its Southern border* and a massive bombing at a Jerusalem bus station killing one and injuring dozens? Called “The Third Terror War” by Caroline Glick (she includes the butchering of the Fogel family) why has Hamas suddenly changed its policy and gone on the offensive threatening Israel’s security and peace? Why now? The simple answer I believe is this: the “democratic” unrest that’s sweeping over and shaking the despotic Middle East is overshadowing and sidelining the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Palestinian leadership is in a panic. The decade’s old belief that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is central to what’s wrong with the Middle East, and the peace process is necessary for stabalizing the region, is being undermined by the regionwide democratic upheavel. By shattering the calm and attacking Israel Hamas is hoping to provoke Netanyahu into another Gaza campaign so that a new war with thousands of Palestinians dead and injured will steal back the regional and international spotlight. Isreal must retaliate against Hamas but avoid escalating the conflict into a full fledged military invasion. Let Israel’s conflict with their implacable, racist, Jew hating foes shrink in importance while the sick, dysfunctional Moslem Middle East explodes with violence and death.
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Apollo, I would like to add another dimension. Prior to, and up to, the Mubarak turmoil Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia,and Egypt defined the major power centers in the area. And the major power in the area was Israel which always has occupied a pivotal and special position in regional power.
Since then, and since the treaty between Iran and Syria, what had been nascent growing, is that the power in the region has shifted to Iran, Syria and the various Iran clients like Hezbollah (Lebanon) and Hamas (West Bank and Gaza – aka Palestinians) at the expense of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
In turn, this nascent power has been growing among the Palestinians since the eclipsing of Fatah and the electoral victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections. A shrew and necessary move on the part of the Palestinians indeed when they lost the flamboyance of Arafat and the Fatah backed leaders took over.
Whatever you think of the anti-Israel position of the Fatah leaders – and there is no mistake about where they stand – nevertheless, their power was never as significant as when they hooked up with Hamas.
Now that Iran has formed a treaty with Syria and is moving in ascendancy you will see more and more attacks on Israel. In short, it is a sign of the power of the Iranians and a change in tactics by the Hamas led Palestinians.
Saudi Arabia, by itself, hasn’t the military power to confront the collected Iranian powers and force them to back down. Egypt is for the time being in turmoil and likely to remain so.
This is my take on the new attacks. The ascendancy of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas.
This, along with the recent major rocket attacks against Israel along with the slaughter of that Israeli family, is the beginning of the end. It really is. As soon as the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt, what do you think will happen to Gaza? It will be totally reinforced by the Egyptians, with lots of weapons (probably made in America) and lots of “volunteers” from Egypt (probably Egyptian troops). Then one minor spark of Israel retaliating for some sort of an attack will launch a massive Egyptian/Palestinian counterattack from Gaza. Then it will be game on, with Hezbollah coming in from the North through Southern Lebanon. And Hezbollah has LOTS of missiles it can fire at Israel, thanks to Iran. This is really, really, bad and Obama was foolish and naive to think that the Muslim Brotherhood would not take over in Egypt. Just shows you how inexperienced this jerk is when it comes to foreign policy.
Obama was foolish and naive to think that the Muslim Brotherhood would not take over in Egypt.
Obama didn’t say boo about the uprising in Iran, was very vocal about Egypt, and is using military force assisting the rebels (who are likely Islamist) in Libya.
I judge him by the logical consequences of his conduct. I don’t think foolish and naive are the correct terms.
Agreed. Viewing this man as dithering is to avoid the politics and goals underneath.
In as much as this is very true, all the more reason to note (I say note) that Egypt was as opposed to a Palestinian state on their border (Gaza) as they were to having the Palestinians in their country. To whatever extent Egypt was willing to adjust its policies to the above preferences, they could remain in the sphere of mature Arab government Israel would work with.
Now, I quite agree, the future is up for grabs and from what we know things aren’t looking good. On the other hand, I am not at all adverse to war, in fact, I think war is necessary now and that the sooner we realize this, the better.
I had been hoping, all along, that Israel was negotiating with the Palestinians in bad faith, stringing them along. I am, perhaps against hope, still willing to give the Israelis the benefit of the doubt and believe they were only postponing war with their Palestinian’s negotiations.
Now, as opposed to later, is the time to strike and to scatter the Palestinians to the winds. Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia will be grateful.
The Europeans who provide the funding fully understand that the money they provide keeps the Palestinian war against Israel going. If the money dried up, the war would peter out. Chris Patten, the EU commissioner who oversees the funds sent to the Palestinians, blocked an investigation into how the money was being used. He knew that the investigation would expose that the money is used to fund the violence and incitement.
The Palestinians are the world’s top recipients of funding per capita despite the fact that they enjoy a higher standard of living than over half the world. If you don’t believe that, then check out UN figures from the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics.
Why the Israelis play along with this game is another question. Maybe you can shed some light on that.
Hi steve from boston:
There is a problem with Israeli leaders. Leaders who are SUPPOSEDLY on the right, when voted into power, they then run Israel as a Leftist. Prime Minister Sharon was supposed to be on the right. His betrayal was horrible. He ruthlessly ethnically cleansed 10,000 Jews from Gaza. Forced into poverty, many of the Jews had to live in tents for a long time. Along with this cruel eviction, there were problems with the children who could not comprehend this dreadful treatment by Israeli leaders. The adults suffered much higher rates of illness and degenerative diseases and deaths than the rest of the population.
But the very biggest problem is intense and continual pressure from American presidents, whether Democrat or Republican, for Israel to make never-ending concessions to Islamic enemies sworn to their destruction:
The removal of very necessary road blocks that check for terrorists and weapons.
Over the years, America has intensely pressured Israel to release THOUSANDS of Muslim terrorists from Israeli jails.
American continual demands for Israel to give up land vital for Israel’s defense.
Israel is backed into a corner. Israel, who has contributed so much to this world, no longer has any friend or ally. Israel has G-D alone.
I think it a great unspoken truth that no one wants Palestinians and no one wants to take up the job of dispersing them. It is kind of like the Kyoto agreement. No one wanted it -including the people who wrote it. The only saving grave with Kyoto is that being an agreement it had an expiration date.
Of course nothing of the kind exists with the Palestinians. I suspect, but I certainly cannot say I know, that the Saudi’s give money to the Palestinians so they, the Palestinians, won’t come into Saudi Arabia. The Egyptians, even in the pith of their turmoil, said they would honor their treaty with Israel but wanted to pull out of the Palestinian talk.
Again, I suspect here, but I cannot say I know it, that the Egyptians do not want to have a Palestinian state on their border (Gaza). They cannot not have Palestinians on their border – having Palestinians on their border is bad enough, having a Palestinian State on their border is unacceptable.
Can’t say I know. Just saying I suspect this
Typing error. “The only saving grave with Kyoto is that being an agreement it had an expiration date. ” should be “The only saving grace with Kyoto is that being an agreement it had an expiration date. “
Continue to pay me for my evil ways and I can assure you that my evil ways will continue. Cold hard steel at your throat and no food tends to alter ones priorities and evil ways. Feeding your enemy while he continues to kill your sons and daughters seems to make a lot of sense to a lot of people, not to me. When your enemy doesn’t value his own life how do you expect him to value yours? Allah Akbar to all you incredibly stupid, naïve and gullible bastards in this world, keep payin and dyin, the U.N. loves you.
I’ve got a great idea: let’s all kill each other forever. And, to make it interesting and since we are all human beings, let’s divide ourselves into two camps. One camp will distinguish itself by wearing shirts with the top button undone, and the other with it buttoned; this will serve as a proxy to facilitate hatred.
And, to make it even better, let’s pay each other to kill each other.
We can have separate Facebook pages; one can be, “Let’s Kill Everyone Who Buttons Their Shirt All the Way Up”
Knock yourselves out. I am going to the moon to take a nap. Let me know when you’ve all killed each other.
Great idea. When do we start?
Stupid question; I’m standing right behind you ya buttonless yahoo.
Do you know you are silly? I truly know you love humanity. I do not doubt it. Are there any actual people you love? Even to kill for? Are there no people that you would kill for so that they can live?
Lawrence I have no interest in positing a hypothetical that enables me morally to turn into a killer for some ‘loved one’.
Since WW II the U.S. has killed an ungodly number of people that were no direct threat to them and kids in Laos still are dying while playing with unexploded bombs.
Please leave me out of these masterpieces of thought that are dedicated to killing people. America went mad in Vietnam and I thought the gov’t had learned its lesson but it has not. It’s immaterial these days because the average American was sane back then and now half the people in our country are nuts anyway.
We let in immigrants who then march in the streets shouting “Down With the U.S.” while we sit on porches knitting sweaters. In my world they would be scooped up with giant garbage trucks like in “Solyent Green” and parachuted into a country they are ‘up’ for.
So everyone write down their little treatise that examines ways in which it is okay to kill people and why and I will think of making art and knitting parachutes to drop illegal immigrants into extinct volcanic shafts.
The real quiet question that nobody asks is when did the USA switch sides? This country help ouster Mubarak knowing fully well that the result would be a Moslem Brotherhood take over. We see this again in Libya which will become an Al Quaida base. I’ve stopped asking if Obama is incompetent. I now view him as being totally evil.
Wonderful post Andy. My worry? How do we clean up the mess?
Hi Andy:
The sad truth is, America’s leaders switched side many years ago. It became very evident when Israel was presented with their “peace” partner – savage and extremely cruel, global Muslim terrorist, Arafat. He and his equally cruel and savage Islamo Nazis were provided with mega money, land and weapons. Arafat and his PLO did EXACTLY as was expected of them: waged bloody jihad against intensely hated infidel Jews. And in the greatest betrayal of a good and outstanding people – the Jewish people; the US/EU/UK/UN demand vulnerable little Israel surrender half her land to global jihad – the merciless enemies who plot a Second Holocaust.
Without the militarily strategic BIBLICAL high ground of Judea and Samaria, little Israel (David against the Goliath of the huge Jew-hating Arab Muslim world), Israel CANNOT defend herself.
Along with Islam, the rest of the world has ganged up against tiny Israel. It is unforgivable and evil.
So it’s that simple and black and white: Mubarak’s out and the MB is in. Where do you get these ‘facts’ from because I am unacquainted with them as is the entirety of the country of Egypt.
Were you here during the uprising? Were the protesters chanting, “We want MORE religion. That is all we care about!”?
Is that what’s going on here? How is it that you and so many others see this so clearly?
Let me clue you in to what’s really happening with such statements. Since you obviously don’t have a clue as to whether the MB will or can take over Egypt or not, that leaves us with only one possibility: that you WANT to believe that the MB will take over. And why do you want to believe that? I have no clue but you obviously are in love with the idea although you have not one fact that you can point to that such a take over is in progress.
Such statements contain not an ounce of nuance or thought or evidence to back them up. All I hear is Iran/Egypt, Iran/Egypt, Iran/Egypt.
Little Jimmy do I have to sit you on my knee and have a serious talk with you? Iran was taken over by the mullahs with just 5% support of the population. The Egyptian brotherhood has the support of 30%, is organized, and is moving to take over. Look for changes in the structure of the Egyptian military, the ouster of officers who disagree with them. It will come.
My original reply to you was censored so I’ll just say “Down with muslims!” Yaaaaaaaaaay!!
They are sneaky and overthrow dictators to restore the caliphate and take over the world.
Hurray for Israel! May every Palestinian Arab come to an ignominious fate.
There. Maybe that’ll have more traction.
In God’s name what do posters here have against war? Being a Zionist only would I die for Israel – which is a trivial bromide – but more, I would kill for them. The Israeli’s are our people, we are them. They have enemies. I believe it is time for our enemies, and Israel’s enemies (the same) I say it is time for our enemies to die. I did not start a war with them. I offered an olive branch. They refused the olive branch because they are my enemy. They know it. I know it. What is the issue? Morality? Whose? Not God’s. Not my God.
It’s time to smash the Palestinians and scatter them to the winds. Are you people chicken? Are you telling me there lives mean more than ours?
If you mean ideally their lives are worth the same as ours, I agree. But tell them. Control them. You stop the missiles! I did not provoke the missiles.
I was living my life, they declared themselves an enemy. Is it more complicated than that? Fine. Simplicity is a virtue. Hit them now. They fire a missile, we fire 100. The target civilian centers? We obliterate theirs. They declare economic war? We declare war. They show no mercy? They will wish they never knew the word.
Whomever won’t preserve Israel curses God.
Why don’t you put your respective lives on the stock exchange to achieve clarity only capitalism can offer?
Then you can go to Las Vegas and create odds on who is more likely to die in the next 24 hours by naked violence, an Israeli or a Palestinian Arab.
That should keep you busy until you actually get around to storming into a mosque and gunning down people. I know that before one does things like that you often have to get worked up, write about it and post it online.
Adina! You are absolutly right,but the great powers of Oil money,Muslim conference,EU,UN are very little interested in safety of Israel.There are though great resourses of the big parts of Israelis and American Jewish population who don`t understand or don`t want to understand the necessity of resolut actions for Israel protection.