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In reply to the discussion: Israel withholds tax revenues from Palestinian Authority [View all]Violet_Crumble
(35,954 posts)Just curious, but did you bother doing any fact checking to see if that was true, or did you just swallow it because it's someone from the Israeli govt saying it?
Israel has withheld revenue that belongs to the PA before, and just as it's been wrong of Israel to do it then, I doubt this time there's any legitimate reason. The reason that's staring everyone right in the face is the one you should be looking at, and that's because Israel is now doing what it threatened to do if the General Assembly recognised Palestine as a non-member observer state, and that's punishing the Palestinians financially. It must get hard even for the most blinded supporters of Netanyahu's govt to try to spin things differently when it was spelt out beforehand what would happen if that vote went Palestine's way. So much for the guff about Israel and the US supporting the creation of a Palestinian state...