Israel withholds Palestinian tax revenues in reaction to UN vote | GlobalPost
Where, oh where is the media coverage?
Where, oh where is the media coverage?
Israel Withholds Palestinian Tax Revenue in Response to UN Vote
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This is tantrum status.
This was a plan months in advance when the P.A. was going to the U.N. Israel was mad that they would even go there.
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This can't be legal. You can't sequester a nation's tax revenue.
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Well, Israel does supply their energy. That shyt ain't free.
That doesn't mean you can garnish a cool hundred-million whenever you want.
That's not how sovereignty works.
Good point. Unfortunately the Israeli admin cynically use that same position as provider to restrict money and also push the idea that the Arabs can't govern themselves, similar to what Conservatives do here with minorities- claim they don't pay taxes on time, are sloppy with their own accounts, etc. In other words, part of the strategy of the Conservative Israelis is to actively prevent the Arabs from achieving real sovereignty while making it seem like it's entirely the Arabs' fault.
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I'm not defending it, but what part of sovereignty requires free energy from an entirely different country?
Can you show me another example of where this occurs?
How much of its own electricity did Hong Kong generate before the merger? How much of its own electricity does Monaco generate?
Just because they were behind on their payments, doesn't mean you can forcibly withhold tax revenue in the absence of a formal sovereign default (ie bankruptcy).
You owe credit card debt right now, don't you? How would you feel if the card company showed up to your house tonight and just started repoing shyt without your financial situation altering significantly?
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It's a lose-lose situation for Israel. They take the tax money, they are thieves. The cut power, they are savages.
Meanwhile, Palestine's Arab neighbors aren't necessarily jumping over themselves to provide energy to the West Bank.
We all know damn well when Palestine becomes an official state, Israel will have to allow it to piggy back on its infrastructure for initial energy consumption.
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A debt company is exactly allowed to do that.
Here's the deal JJ, Israel doesn't owe shyt to the Palestinians, plain and simple. If you want to talk about human rights abuses and Israeli tactics, or the legitimacy of the Zionist country, I'm all on your side. But to sit here and pretend Israel is not in some lose-lose situation on this is crazy man.
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Where, oh where is the media coverage?
Why should there be media coverage? This is nontroversy.
- Palestinians owe Israel money.
- Israel kindly deducts what it owes the Palestinians from the debt the Palestinians owe Israel
And what is the problem exactly?
Israel should completely let the PA collapse. The PA pays Palestinian terrorists salaries, incite against Israel constantly, indoctrinate children to hate and murder Jews, glorify genocidal lunatic Jew-hating Jihadists, and completely abandoned the Oslo accords (which granted them legitimacy in the first place) by seeking unilateral recognition.
They can't even do a simple thing like abide by an agreement or teach their children not to be genocidal maniacs, and now Israel is supposed to give them 100 million bucks when the PA owes Israel 180 million?
When will the world hold Palestinians responsible for their actions? Apparently never.
No, HERE'S the deal; there was never any talk of doing this before the UN vote. You're making it seem like the Israelis were so deep in the red that they were forced to do this. If that's true, how is the debt worse off now than it was...I don't know...six months ago? This has nothing to do with how profitable their utility companies are.
This has everything to do with illegally garnishing an entire nation's tax revenue to pay off an electricity debt CAUSED by Israeli demolition of infrastructure. They're sequestering money because they're unhappy with the energy situation they created by bombing power infrastructure?
It's not a lose-lose situation if Israel wasn't losing to begin with.
I agree that it's a lose-lose on one level, but I also think that Israeli Conservatives actively pursue this road. I edited my earlier post and added more, but I think you started responding before I had finished.