Palestinians: The Battle to Steal Reconstruction Funds

We should stop referring to Palestinians but use Arabs or Arab Palestinians. Jews are just as much Palestinian as their Arab cousins. Seems otherwise the terrorists Arabs will twist the narrative to fit their agenda.

Look for solutions, not problems. Gaza and West Bank are part of Israel. They are PROTECTORATES of Israel, not independent entities. Therefore the money must be handled by Israel. Egypt has volunteered to help with reconstruction. Good on them. Let the Israeli paymaster pay the money to the Egyptian contractors. If this is not acceptable, tell the Egyptians to go home.

Instead of giving money, Egypt and other donors should insist on doing the reconstruction work (basically free of charge). This would be more cost effective.

Western nations who give money (donor) freely to organisations such as PLO, Hamas, Fatah, Iranian govt (recipients) etc

a) unconditionally

b) and/or fail to demand that money is strictly to be used for peaceful purposes as defined by donor

c) and/or fail to demand that the recipient convincingly and truthfully document how when, where why the donors' money was spent on a given item

d) and/ or fail to demand that the money given by the donor be returned as conditions (b) and (c) have not been satisfied

Should be charged with money laundering, conspiracy to waste taxpayers (donors') money, aiding and abetting terrorism and foreign dictatorships.

In Australian MSM the battle between Hamas and Israel is very commonly and falsely portrayed as between the poor, cruelly oppressed, starving Palestinians and the tyrannical, arrogant, murderous colonial, racist white Israeli oppressors.
Rarely is the full real truth told the Palestinians are horribly oppressed by the tyrannical corrupt, recipients of Western aid, Hamas, Fatah PLO etc.
Israel plays almost no part in causing the fundamental continuing misery of the Palestinians.

Some things never really seem to change.... for the better.
It takes a democracy, any funding should be tied to free elections uncompromised and with integrity. But who am I to say anything I just saw the results from PA... Trump won.

Dear Khaled,
It's a pleasure to read you articles although in most ways it's also very sad.
It's a real pity that you can't express these sentiments face-to-face with Western leaders. They are still convinced that the Palestinians - or at least Abbas, Fatah, Hamas etc. .. want what they think they ought to want - peace, prosperity for their peoples, an independent country (the "2-state solution"). Basically the Western leaders live on a different planet and repeat the same mantra etc ad nauseum. Unfortunately, this is all part of a sickness which they suffer including worship of the Environment G-d, Green Energy etc. Sad!

"The Palestinian Authority and Hamas are saying they do not trust each other...." Never did I think that one day I would agree with both of them!!

(Refer to 14th paragraph from start of superbly logical and factual article written by Khaled Abu Toameh.)

Giving money to organisations/individuals such as cruel dictatorships without insisting on an approved clear and externally verifiable account detailing how,when , where and what expenditure occurred is almost corruption.The donor has wasted the money.
There is a strong incentive for the current dictatorships not to change their ways as they receive extraordinarily large amounts of money for doing almost nothing, except to ensure the status quo is maintained and the standard of living of the oppressed population either stays same or decreases.

In my humble opinion if you directly give a poor man money to buy fish then tomorrow he and his family will be hungry... if you directly give a poor man money to buy a fishing line, in future he and his family will seldom be hungry... if you directly give a dictatorship money to raise the standard of living of the population then in the future the poor man and his family will never see a fish or fishing line.

The Arab, Muslim and Western leaders are wasting their time and money that could be better used for their own people who also desperately need help. Why can't they see that. They always have the wrong priorities. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas are just a bunch of common thugs and murderers siphoning off as much money as they can from donor countries and don't deserve one penny. They use the money they get to purchase weapons from Iran to further their ambitions for the destruction of Israel and couldn't give a damn about the suffering Palestinian people in West Bank and Gaza and that is about the size of it. Biden's two state solution will never work it is a lost cause and the hundreds of millions he wishes to give them would be better used for border security and creating jobs for the American people in a non-corrupt honest way. What will it take to wake up these ignorant misguided corrupt rulers to reality in the real world. When? They never will. It's hopeless. Bunch of stupid fools that the people of the world have to put up with. Sad, very sad.

For how many years have we heard the true mantra: In order for the PA to succeed in actually helping its people and not just its leadership, that leadership must be changed to one which actually has this as its goal. Without such a change, all that will be accomplished by pumping more money into this effort is to create more PA billionaires, build more tunnels and rockets, have more lost hope, etc.

Obviously this change will not take place and the goals of all of the PA factions will remain the same: destroy Israel. Even other Arab countries recognize this and they have become tired of supporting a PA which is corrupt.
So: what to do?

Those who contribute the money must control and follow the money by managing everything" about the money. "Outsiders" must go in and 1. do the planning; 2. do the selection process of who does the work by supervising and having the final say about everything including determining the hiring and firing of the workers (being sure that they get to keep all of their paychecks), buying and transporting the materials and every other phase of any building process; 3. vetting everyone and everything about those "locals" who are involved; and 4. being sure that it is the general population which gets the benefits of what is being done. This all needs an approach of a typical construction process by a non-government construction company.

Another and perhaps easier way is to have a Marshall Plan approach with the contributing entities or similar non-PA (but not UN) organization handling everything. After all, this money does not belong to the PA or Hamas, it belongs to the contributors! They have the money so they should be the ones making the rules.

If innovative people are involved much good can be done. If not, same old same old.

More power to journalist Khaled Abu Toameh! The message that was sent to the Biden Administration, "stop showering money to corrupt and failed Palestinian leaders! The money needs to go to new leaders who care about the welfare of their people." The money also needs to go to many needed improvements in our own country.

In response to west another wonderfully enlightening article by Khaled Abu Toameh, a friend wrote: "I don't understand what the Western nations don't understand?" To which I responded: "...that clearly the Arab States do. Again, another proof for my reasoning behind Arafat's seeking of, and agreeing to, the Oslo Accords; with the demise of the bipolar world of the Cold War and the reality that the Arabs were all too familiar with his thuggery and corruption, with his long history and willingness and ability to destabilize their regimes and/or governments, Arafat had nowhere to turn but the West, where, fortunately for him, governments existed within the fantasy of their preconceived notions and were therefore more than happy throwing billions and billions of dollars to solve the Israel/Palestinian Arab conundrum. Of course, in character and on cue, the only cause that was championed by Arafat and his thugs was the perpetuation of the power and corruption of Arafat and his thugs...which is now the cause of the HAMAS and the PA. All a continuum of the pattern set by Hajj Amin and his thugs. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...and the Jews and the Arabs suffer the consequences of this reality."

So the Palestinian Authority and Hamas don't trust each other with hundreds of millions of dollars...
Well, to be fair, I doubt anyone else would trust them either.

Cairo complains about how the Hamas/PIJ/etc. clique purloins aid funds but continues to cut the checks.

Until the Arab world unites in demanding the complete ouster of the criminal enterprise current occupying government in Gaza all claims to be advocating for clean, responsible government free of corruption are not credible.