I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg, but “French prosecutors said Tuesday they had opened an inquiry into transfers totaling $11.5 million into bank accounts held in France by Suha Arafat, the wife of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.”
I wonder if Arafat has been able to save this sum from his meager salary by living frugally all these years. NOT. If the Palestinian people ever learn how much this guy must have looted from humanitarian aid sent to the PA to improve their existence, he’d probably be hanging from a meathook in Manger Square.
Undoubtedly, this news will never hit the headlines on Al Jazeera. The phrase “You Can’t Handle the Truth” comes to mind.
Hey if you spend money on the refuge camps the people might make them into something and actually like them and then you couldn't really call them camps could you?
Refugee camps still exist after 50 years even after millions of dollars in donations. Sad, pathetic, and corrupt P.A.
Maybe it's just me. But leaders who skim some gravy from the highly lucrative (if illegal) drug trade a la Noriega and/or leaders who lap at the troughs of money flowing from exploitation of natural resources a la the Saudi Royal family seem a little less reprehensible than Arafat. The only money he has available to steal is the humanitarian assistance benevolently given to a people whose only natural resource to exploit during Arafat's reign of power is their own blood. The misery of his own people is his pipeline to personal wealth.
Forbes has listed Arafat worth $300 million for the last few years, I don’t think there's any dispute about the corruption that has gone on within the P.A.
Israel targets suicide bombers and terrorists. If there was half-decent living many likely wouldn't turn to suicide bombing and no suicide bombing equals no Israeli strikes.