Shabaneh argues that due to PA corruption, Hamas remains the preferred alternative for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.
According to PA Sport, Scolari's spokesman Acaz Fellegger believes it was Abramovich's decision to get rid of the Brazilian coach.
His government's decision to freeze tax transfers to the PA in response to the agreement with Hamas has sent a strong signal that Israel is withdrawing its acceptance of the PA as a credible peace partner and now views it as a terrorist entity.
Gilad Schalit hostage devolved from Hamas to the PA. And the PA would continue to hold him hostage.
Customs revenues booked by Israel on foreign goods transiting through Israel to the PA were transferred to a private bank account at the Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv that was opened in Mr. Arafat's name and controlled by his personal financial adviser, Mohammad Rashid.
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Although the Clinton administration served in a decade unscathed by large-scale war, but marked by an increase in rogue states' audacity and terrorist attacks on US targets, Clinton consistently urged Israel to accept Palestinian terrorism and insisted on turning a blind eye to blatant PA breaches of its commitments to Israel.
Since PA President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Fayyad to lead the rump Fatah government in Judea and Samaria after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, US aid to the PA has increased by more than 700 percent.
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It may equally have to subject its armed militias to the PA's collective decisions and may start to lose popularity as it grapples with the mundane difficulties of government.
Also today, the Vice President and Dr. Jill Biden traveled to Philadelphia, PA, to participate in the 17th annual Greater Philadelphia Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is bad enough that the Bush administration has resumed its earlier effort briefly suspended after the covert shipment to the PA of Iranian arms aboard the Karine A was discovered to euchre Israel into making further political and, in due course, territorial concessions to Yasser Arafat.
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Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign-policy supremo, has warned that a Hamas victory could mean funds to the PA being cut off, although opinions of European member states vary widely as to how best to deal with such a situation.
Arafat cronies run contractors like al Bahr, which has a sweetheart deal to provide information technology services to the PA finance ministry.
Then there is the US direct assistance to the PA's operating budget.
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This is supposed to put the onus on the PA to act against the Palestinian militias before Israel starts withdrawing from any Palestinian areas.
In meetings with Mr Dahlan, Mr Mofaz had proposed that four cities Qalqilya, Jericho, Tulkarm and Ramallah be handed over to the PA's control within ten days.
Finally, the simple truth is that it is impossible to prevent US budgetary assistance to the PA from financing Hamas, in contravention of US law.
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Hamas is expected to do well in these: Mr Shikaki's surveys give it 30-35% of the seats, and 45% to the PA's ruling Fatah party.
At home the government must stop all tax transfers to the PA. It must prohibit the deployment of the US-trained Palestinian army in Judea and Samaria.
One reason is that by taking part, he hoped to refute Israel's claim that when it talked to the PA, it was not dealing with Mr Arafat.
It has also been agreed that the Israeli army will shortly pull out of five towns in the West Bank, handing over responsibility for security to the PA's forces.
Obama's willingness to do so was exposed by his refusal to end US financial assistance to the PA in the aftermath of last spring's unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas.
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Specifically, Netanyahu should ask the US to cut off all US economic and military assistance to the PA. Two PA intelligence officers were arrested as part of the Fogel murder investigation.
And British pressure is at work in the U.S. government's insistence that Israel provide arms to the PA - even though the U.S. envoy in charge of this project, Army Lieutenant Gen.
Were Israel to follow Ros-Lehtinen's lead and cut off its transfer of tax revenues to the PA, and indeed, stop collecting taxes on the PA's behalf, it would be advancing Israel's interests in several ways.
Were the government to go after international aid to the PA, not only would it begin a debate in the US and perhaps Europe about the nature of Fatah specifically and Palestinian society generally, it would force the Palestinians' myriad supporters to justify their support for a society that is defined by its goal of annihilating Israel.
Egypt has kept the border closed partly to please America, which props up Mr Mubarak with aid, partly because his government loathes Hamas as a branch of its own Muslim Brotherhood, and partly in the hope of forcing Hamas to cede legitimacy to the PA, thereby keeping prospects for Palestinian unity and future peace dealings with Israel alive.
In 1993, the embassy in Washington began lobbying Congress to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to the PA. And because the ideological and policy assumptions of the Oslo process have never been scrutinized despite the policy's abject failure, apparently, this remains the underlying policy assumption of the Foreign Ministry in its dealings with foreign governments, including the US Congress.
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This move will facilitate swift congressional action to defund the PA and limit the administration's ability to pressure Israel to make further concessions to Abbas.
The Saudis would have to oppose Iran's nuclear program even if Israel were to destroy the PA and send its leaders - from Hamas and Fatah alike - packing to Mecca.
One of the chief responsibilities of Palestinian militia that operate in the city has been to enforce the PA's anti-Semitic law which defines the sale of land to Jews as a capital offense.
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