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    Nov 14, 2007 18:09 | Updated Nov 14, 2007 18:20
    Bill: PA tax funds would be used to pay for Kassam damage
    By JPOST.COM STAFF

    Israel might soon be able to demand that the Palestinian Authority cover the costs of Kassam rocket damage, according to a new bill that passed a preliminary reading in the Knesset plenum Wednesday.


    A policeman inspects damage to a house in Sderot that was hit during a previous Kassam attack.
    Photo: AP [file]
    The bill, an initiative of MKs Yisrael Hasson (Israel Beitenu) and Limor Livnat (Likud), would finance repairs of all damages related to Kassam fire - evacuating residents of Gaza periphery settlements, repairing damage to buildings, medical costs and psychological treatment - from the tax funds that Israel collects for the Palestinian Authority and transfers on a regular basis.

    The bill also stipulates that the costs for securing residential houses, shelters and bus stations in Gaza periphery settlements come from the PA tax money.

    Thirty-seven MKs voted for the bill, while 23 voted against. Earlier this month, a ministerial committee headed by Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann approved the draft to be voted on in the plenum.

    Hasson further proposed that the bill, if made into a law, would be enforced retroactively, beginning with the disengagement from Gaza last year.

    Apart from initiators Hasson and Livnat, MKs Shai Hermesh (Kadima) and Matan Vilna'i (Labor) also signed the draft.

    "I am happy the MKs common sense was stronger than the government's opposition," Hasson said after the vote. "It is important that [attendants of the] Annapolis [peace conference] will also see the plight of the children of Sderot. It's time for relevant officials to take responsibility for their actions."

    MK Livnat said that "this is the first step in ending this outrage of giving [the PA] money that is then used for terrorism."

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    Excellent. Sounds like a very just and fair policy, hopefully it is implemented.
    In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
    The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea

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    Goes to show that the PA is devoid of any sovereign immunity whatsoever. I can certainly understand the anger of Palestinians against this kind of thing. If USA were to try to pull this **** off against India, India would go barking bonkers.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Blademaster View Post
      Goes to show that the PA is devoid of any sovereign immunity whatsoever. I can certainly understand the anger of Palestinians against this kind of thing. If USA were to try to pull this **** off against India, India would go barking bonkers.
      USA against India? Does the US collect taxes for Indians? How is that at all a relevent situation?
      In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
      The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea

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      • #4
        So use money stolen from the Palestinian people?
        To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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        • #5
          This is stupid if for no other reason than that the Palestinian Authority does not govern Gaza.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by troung View Post
            So use money stolen from the Palestinian people?
            Use money that could otherwise better their lives. I guess they should be trying more actively to dissuade people from terrorism.
            In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
            The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea

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            • #7
              Use money that could otherwise better their lives. I guess they should be trying more actively to dissuade people from terrorism.
              Israel withheld PA tax money (earning interest on it) since the election of Hamas. Its not aid money but tax money from Palestinians. So this is just to legitimizing keeping it, thus stealing Palestinian money. And BTW the Hamas election issue was not the first time Israel withheld Palestinian money and kept it for themselves.
              To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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              • #8
                Originally posted by troung View Post
                Israel withheld PA tax money (earning interest on it) since the election of Hamas. Its not aid money but tax money from Palestinians. So this is just to legitimizing keeping it, thus stealing Palestinian money. And BTW the Hamas election issue was not the first time Israel withheld Palestinian money and kept it for themselves.
                No, it is not the first time. And as long as they can't properly put it to use themselves and stop their compatriots from theatening Israeli security, it fully justified if it happens again.
                In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
                The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea

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                • #9
                  No, it is not the first time. And as long as they can't properly put it to use themselves and stop their compatriots from theatening Israeli security, it fully justified if it happens again.
                  The can't put it to use because Israel basically has stolen the money...

                  Goes to show that the PA is devoid of any sovereign immunity whatsoever. I can certainly understand the anger of Palestinians against this kind of thing. If USA were to try to pull this **** off against India, India would go barking bonkers.
                  Sort of a bantuistan actually, they can't have an army, have no control over their borders or air space and can't collect tax money.
                  To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Stan187 View Post
                    USA against India? Does the US collect taxes for Indians? How is that at all a relevent situation?
                    Just showing an analogy or an example, not necessarily real in life. That should have been obvious to you.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Stan187 View Post
                      No, it is not the first time. And as long as they can't properly put it to use themselves and stop their compatriots from theatening Israeli security, it fully justified if it happens again.
                      Who are you to decide that? That's the gist of sovereignty. It is like taking the money from Israel and holding it until Israel has given all the lands back or etc.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Blademaster View Post
                        Who are you to decide that? That's the gist of sovereignty. It is like taking the money from Israel and holding it until Israel has given all the lands back or etc.
                        There is no sovereign nation-state of Palestine.
                        In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
                        The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea

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                        • #13
                          There is no sovereign nation-state of Palestine.
                          So with their status as a Bantustan then they don't actually have a nation? So thus they are then resisting occupation by shooting rockets at their occupiers? Sort of shoots the terrorism argument to pieces once one looks at it as an occupied population which can have their homes knocked down for opposing the regime which occupies them.

                          If they live in a place where they cannot travel, have to sit through check points, have their tax money taken by their oppressors (basically funding their oppression), and have their homes knocked down and get kicked off their land so settlers can come illegally to set up shop, then by all means resistance is okay as Palestine is not a state thus making it a struggle against foreign occupiers...
                          To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by troung View Post
                            So with their status as a Bantustan then they don't actually have a nation? So thus they are then resisting occupation by shooting rockets at their occupiers? Sort of shoots the terrorism argument to pieces once one looks at it as an occupied population which can have their homes knocked down for opposing the regime which occupies them.

                            If they live in a place where they cannot travel, have to sit through check points, have their tax money taken by their oppressors (basically funding their oppression), and have their homes knocked down and get kicked off their land so settlers can come illegally to set up shop, then by all means resistance is okay as Palestine is not a state thus making it a struggle against foreign occupiers...
                            The terrorism argument is not shot to piece, not in the slightest. Them not being able to travel freely and their doors getting kicked down are a consequence of terrorism, not the other way around, no matter how you try to spin it.

                            Foreign occupiers? Interesting, when Egyptians and Jordanians were slaughtering them in masses, no one cried foul.
                            In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
                            The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea

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