Israel To Europe: If You Won’t Stop Funding Terrorism, We’ll Do It For You

By
Omri Ceren
– February 25, 2004Posted in: Europe

Israel finally got fed up with the fact that the world won’t stop funneling money for Palestinian terrorism:


Tens of millions of shekels intended to fund Palestinian terror were confiscated by the IDF, police, and Shin Bet in an unprecedented raid on banks in Ramallah and El-Bireh.

Officials pored over hundreds of bank accounts and seized money from Europe, the US, Iran, Syria, and Jordan intended to fund Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas.

The US criticized this move, offering the far more diplomatic and European this-doesn’t-have-a-snowball’s-chance-in-hell-of-working suggestion:


“The actions, some of these actions that were taken, risk destabilizing the Palestinian banking system. And so we’d prefer to see Israeli coordination with Palestinian financial authorities in order to stem the flow of funds to terrorist groups.”

In response, the Palestinians have announced that they’re going to start being violent:


“This is provocation; they are asking for Palestinian retaliation,” said Tayeb Abdel Rahim, an aide to Chairman Yasser Arafat

UPDATE: This is outstanding:


Defense Minister Mofaz made it clear that Israel intends to see to it that the funds, which were designated for terrorism, will henceforth serve a variety of humanitarian purposes, including improving the infrastructure at crossing points and checkpoints, Palestinian health services, transportation for school pupils, supplying food, etc.
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