Israel’s government announced today that it intends to soon end its policy of seizing Palestinian tax dollars and will return tens of millions of dollars it has been holding since the UNESCO vote. The seizure was a “protest” for Palestine being recognized by UNESCO.
The move is controversial within Israel, however, as Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is loudly condemning the decision as a “mistake” and saying that Israel should’ve done a better job of explaining why it was keeping the funds instead of returning them.
Lieberman even insisted over the weekend that he would withdraw the Yisrael Beiteinu party from the coalition government if Israel ever returned the money, though he now insists that he will simply work within the government to ensure Israel keeps the funds.
But even if Israel’s government does decide to stop stealing money from the Palestinians, land is another matter. Reports today indicate that the “eviction” of a Palestinian family from their house in Occupied East Jerusalem is in the offing.
The family has owned the house for generations, long before Israel conquered the area in 1967. But officials argue that when the legal owner of the house died in 1984, his sons (legal heirs) were living in neighboring Jordan and that the house was therefore forfeited to the state, even though the late owner’s nephew and his family have continued to live in the house. Officials now say the nephew is an “illegal occupier” and should be removed so the house can be folded into the expansion of a nearby settlement.
How worse can it get for the Palestinians and the world just sits back and allow it to continue puppets abound everywhere even the UN head is a yankee sock puppet that allow america/european union to trample on the downtrodden.
I just cannot imagine how otherwise smart people of Israel continue to accept a person like Lieberman as the face of Israel?
I am sure Lieberman is looking into the past when he was a bar bounce for advice on this issue. I am sure he feels that we always hit the hookers and took some of their cash. If they did not like it the hookers could go someplace else. I am sure the Palestinians would love to go any place that does not have a Lieberman as a leading "government officials."
Lieberman was probably not smart enough to be a bar bouncer. He clearly is an amazingly uninformed individual. The money is Palestinians paid to the government of Israel with the responsiblity that it be paid to the government of Gaza. Oh what a shock to find Israel want to keep the money. It is amazing that they collected billions for the holocaust survivors then did not give that money to the survivors but used it for public projects in Israel.
And who had control of the “West Bank” before 67? Jordan. Jordan lost the 67 war after years of belligerance against Israeli civilians so Israel got the land.
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Palestine was there before Israel existed, not this incarnation that started in the late 1940's, Palestine existed BEFORE the Patriarch of The Jews, and the Muslims, Abraham even started his Journey from Ur, Up the Euphrates into the Mountains of Lebanon and down the Jordan River. The Phillistines were in Gaza yes the very same Gaza, Jews were not the original inhabitants of Salem either, Even Aristotle called the Area Palestine when he refers to the area surrounding the Dead Sea. That means that the Palestinians have been there how many THOUSANDS of years continuosly over 5000, Israel not so much! They keep leaving for some reason or another!