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Tonight is Kol Nidrei*
"It is not generally
known that Israel has taken and is taking significant steps to ease the
Palestinian Authority’s financial difficulties.
"In a conference of donor countries in New York
last week, the Israel representative listed a package of steps which Israel is
taking to assist the Palestinians, notwithstanding that so-called donor nations
have not been rushing to meet the Palestinians’ request for aid recently.
"The Netanyahu government has been
making transfers of tax monies collected in Israel on behalf of the Palestinians
and has even given them an advance of some four hundred million shekels to help
the Authority pay salaries. Israel has
approved 14 projects to build and renovate schools and clinics for Palestinians
in areas under full Israeli control.
"Israel has added 5,000 work permits for Palestinians to come and work
inside Israel and a further 2,000 overnight permits to allow Palestinian
labourers to work in construction and farming and sleep on site. All told, some 48,000 Palestinians now work
legally inside Israel and a further 26,000 have permits to work inside
industrial zones in the settlement regions.
It is estimated that 30,000 more are working illegally in Israel without
permits. Salaries paid to all these
people are more than double to salaries they could earn from the PA. In addition, Israel has approached European
and other countries to encourage financial aid for the Palestinians.
"All this at a time when
the Palestinian leadership refuses point-blank to negotiate a peace treaty,
educates its youth to hate Israel, encourages shahid or martyrdom in killing Israelis
and has now applied for temporary membership in the United Nations which if
received could permit them to go to the international courts in the Hague,
claiming Israel is guilty of war crimes.
"We are sending this to
relatives and friends because it is worth
publicising.
"Tomorrow night and
Wednesday are Yom Kippur and we pray for peace and goodwill everywhere."
Eleanor and Malcolm
G - It is the Europeans who should be praying for peace and forgiveness. And the US President. And the anti-Israel Christians.
*In Australia. This blog is set to US West Coast time.
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