Tag Archive for PA corruption

Did the EU’s ‘lost’ €2 Billion aid money ‘fall close to the tree’?

Are the sons of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president growing rich off their father’s system of ‘lost aid’ and extensive Palestinian corruption?

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER

 

 

In the wake of the Arab Spring, U.S. leaders have promised to reverse the United States’ long reliance on autocratic, unrepresentative leaders who enrich themselves at the expense of their citizens. There’s only one problem: Just as top American officials have been making these lofty promises, new details are emerging of how close family members of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, a major U.S. partner in the Middle East, have grown wealthy. Have they enriched themselves at the expense of regular Palestinians — and even U.S. Continue Reading »

What the White House Doesn’t Want to Know About Abbas

By Khaled Abu Toameh

 

As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pursues his efforts to revive the peace process in the Middle East, Palestinian officials in the West Bank are complaining that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is keeping them in the dark and refusing to brief them about his plans. Continue Reading »

Abbas is seeking urgent aid on Saudi visit

Riyadh official claims PA ‘will no longer be able to pay wages as Ramadan approaches’

By AFP

 

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas visited Saudi Arabia and met King Abdullah on Friday to seek urgent aid for his administration as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan nears.

Mahmoud Abbas Photo: AFP

Mahmoud Abbas
Photo: AFP

The leaders, who met in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, discussed “the financial crisis of the Palestinian Authority (PA) which will no longer be able to pay its employees as Ramadan approaches,” the Palestinians’ top diplomat in Riyadh said.

“President Abbas asked for the help of the Saudi kingdom which he thanked for its continued support to the Palestinians,” Jamal Shobaki told AFP. Continue Reading »

Palestinian parliamentarian slams PA over rank corruption

Corruption is now more widespread than ever with ministers receiving high salaries, cars, Palestinian Legislative Council speaker tells ‘Al-Quds Al-Arabi,’ scoffing at PA’s talk of a financial crisis in the West Bank.

Hasan Khreishah, deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Saturday held the Palestinian Authority responsible for rampant corruption and human rights violations.

He also blasted the PA and Hamas governments for human rights abuses, especially against Palestinian journalists.

“Since the signing of the Oslo Accords, we have had 12 Palestinian governments,” Khreishah said in an interview with the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper.

PA President Abbas and PM Fayyad [file] - Photo by Fadi Arouri / Reuters

PA President Abbas and PM Fayyad file - Photo by Fadi Arouri/Reuters

“Each government consisted of at least 24 ministers.

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