The PA says that the ruling will lead to it's finicial ruin. It's already ruined finicially. It get most of it's money from US and EU aid. So really the US & EU would be paying the terror victims not the PA. Jerusalem Post
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Jerusalem District Court Judge Aharon Farkash ruled on Monday that it was possible to implement a 2004 US court ruling, according to which the Palestinian Authority must pay compensations of more than $116 million to terror victims' families.
n July 2004, a US court ruled that the Palestinian Authority was to pay some $116 million to the relatives of Yaron and Efrat Unger who were killed in a 1996 terror attack. But when the family asked authorities to enforce the court ruling in Israel, the Palestinian Authority objected, saying that paying the high compensations would lead to its financial collapse.They claimed paying the high sum would empty the Palestinian Authority's coffers and would lead to more lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority.
The petition, filed in the US because the victims were American citizens, argued that the Palestinian Authority was responsible for the attack carried out by Hamas because the terrorists were controlled by the Palestinian Authority and were assisted by the Palestinian security apparatuses.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Palestinian Authority to Pay Millions to Terror Victims
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
EU to Bail out Cash Strapped Palestinians
The EU is injecting another $59 million into the dysfunction Palestinian Authority. That is on top of $256 million that the EU has already given the PA this year alone. Why do Western countries always dish out cash for the Palestinians?
What about Saudi Arabia? They rake in billions of dollars a day from their oil exports. If the Saudis are so concerned about their Arab brothers in the West Bank surely they would give them money. Reuters
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The European Union will give a financial boost on Wednesday to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority to help Prime Minister Salam Fayyad pay public sector salaries, EU and Palestinian officials said.
The 40 million euro ($59 million) injection of funds comes on top of the 256 million euros in budget support disbursed so far this year by the European Union.
