Where does Hamas get its money....
The international community condemns Israel and funds Hamas...
Amid international condemnation of Israel, one would never guess that humanitarian aid and even cash is flowing into Hamas coffers, while its rockets continue to hit Israel.Also...just how much does Hamas get from Iran???
It is important to alleviate the suffering of innocent Palestinians. However, since Gaza is under Hamas control, we have to ask: Will aid reach the suffering populace? If the past is any indication, most funds and supplies will end up with Hamas.
The world community that berates Israel for defending itself from constant attacks by the terrorist group also facilitated Hamas' victory in the 2006 Palestinian Authority election, when it was allowed to run under the name "List of Change and Reform."
Since then, despite repeated promises to cut off funds for Hamas, international aid organizations and many countries kept on sending money to Gaza, purportedly for humanitarian aid. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, raises money for Gaza through its Web site, with payments going through WorldPay (part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group), the Arab Bank PLC in Gaza and HSBC in Amman, Jordan. Those funds come in addition to UNRWA's annual budget of $400 million.
The $7 billion to $10 billion that the Palestinian Authority has received since 1993 has come from the European Union, the U.N., the U.S., Saudi Arabia and other Arab League countries. France alone has sent more than $3 billion. This influx of cash has done little to advance the development of a viable Palestinian state or of peace in the region. Rather, it has helped to fuel the Palestinian leadership's terrorist agenda, and kept the Palestinian people oppressed and disenfranchised.
In the mid-1990s--shortly after the Palestinian Authority came into existence--the Palestinian writer Fawaz Turki described the regime as "the dissolution of civilized society, of all civil norms and all hope." Despite all of this, most international organizations and the world community at large continue to ignore the ongoing human and civil rights violations perpetrated against the Palestinians by their own leadership, including the destruction of Gaza and the death of hundreds of its citizens.
posted by GayandRight @ 8:20 AM
1 Comments:
Fred, I commend you on your posting. it is shameful that far too few people from around the world not only ask "Where and how does Hamas get it's money?" but in addition, "What is Hamas doing with the money they receive, namely from the European Union?" with a shoreline they could have built a riviera and employed thousands of their people. With a definitive terrorist hate-spewing agenda as the major aspect of their charter, "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad" there should be no more funding. It is akin to funding the Nazis. It is no doubt a sad state of affairs for all those who live in Gaza and wish Hamas would just go away but since they never will on their own accord it is the responsibility of a combined effort to rid them from the world. It is the right time for a final stance against all forms of government who spew hatred at the expense of the people.
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