By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
The Palestinians have changed strategy. They have decided not to apply for full membership status in all of the 16 United Nations agencies.
This shift is dramatic.
And it has come about because the Palestinians now realize what they have done- how by lobbying for and then receiving full membership status in UNESCO they have alienated and disenfranchised their major donors. The decision by the United States, Canada and even Israel to stop funding the Palestinians has effectively bankrupted the PA.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has stepped in and asked the Palestinian Authority to abort their plan. He said that the decision to become recognized members of the various UN agencies will result in the suffering of millions of Palestinian residents.
Israel is now stopping the transfer of taxes to the PA, taxes which come to about $100 million a month. This will strangle the PA.
The damage Palestinian leadership has done to itself is huge. Millions of Palestinians will starve. Millions will suffer terribly -and unnecessarily.
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The Jerusalem Post reported that "Palestinians foreign minister said on Thursday that they will not accept anything less than full UN membership." So it seems they're still at it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=244410
It's difficult to feel sympathy for the PA. They voted for Hamas, they HAD to know the repercussions of that, alone. Again, their anger should not be aimed at Israel, or the US, for that matter, but their leadership and themselves.
ReplyDeleteThey made their bed... it's time to lie in it and to stop trying to drag others in with them.