Arab states ‘completely incapacitated’ PA by withholding aid, Fayyad says

[King_David]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian self-rule government is close to being “completely incapacitated,” largely because Arab countries haven’t delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in promised aid, the Palestinian prime minister said in an interview Sunday.

If allowed to continue, the Palestinian Authority’s unprecedented financial crisis will quickly double the number of Palestinian poor to 50 percent of a population of roughly 4 million, Salam Fayyad told The Associated Press.

Fayyad said the malaise is further boosting the political appeal of the Islamic militant Hamas while discrediting him and other proponents of a nonviolent path to statehood in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. Hamas seized Gaza from Fayyad’s boss, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a 2007 takeover, leaving Abbas with only the West Bank.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-prime-minister-blasts-arab-countries-for-with-holding-donations/

[zellie]

1. This is so true.

The Arab countries owe them.
Israel owes them.
The US owes them .

Never ends.

[Igel]

2. And now they're the State of Palestine.

So the lack of aid from other countries has incapacitated the proud and sovereign state of Palestine?

Sad, in so, so many ways.