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But, When Israel Keeps Building Illegal Settlements U.S. Still Sends Billions To Israel

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Peace Bust Imperils $2.2 Billion for Aid-Needy Palestinians

By Jonathan Ferziger

If Palestinian President Abbas does conclude his agreement to govern with Hamas, under U.S. law, there’s a risk that the annual $440 million that American taxpayers contribute to Palestinian society will be yanked automatically. Close

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Photographer: Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images

Bucking U.S. warnings to keep his distance from Hamas won’t come cheap for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Already hobbled by anemic tax collection and depressed economic growth, the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority stands to lose more than $2 billion a year, or half its budget, following the collapse of peace talks with Israel. Western powers have threatened to withhold aid after Abbas, challenged to give Palestinians hope by laying out an alternative vision of achieving statehood, announced a reconciliation pact with the Gaza Strip’s militant Hamas rulers.

12 Palestinian-Israelis charged for 'lynching' Israeli extremist who was on a killing rampage

in Double Standard

In a decision that has sparked large protests in Palestinian-Israeli towns, an Israeli prosecutor has charged twelve men in an incident four years ago in which an Israeli man who was in the process of gunning down an entire busload of Arab men, women and children was subdued by the crowd and killed.

Photo of Israeli Eden Zada who carried out massacre of Palestinians in 2005 (photo from Esser Agaroth)

Israel's decision to move forward with the prosecution in this case shows a marked difference to the Israeli government's actions in similar cases involving Israeli Jews who intervened when Palestinians engaged in attacks against Israeli civilians. For instance, when a Palestinian construction driver crashed his tractor into an Israeli police car in March, a cab driver who saw the crash got out of his car and fired four shots at the Palestinian driver, killing him. In that incident, although no evidence was ever presented that the crash was carried out on purpose, the Israeli authorities declared it a “terrorist attack” and exonerated the cab driver who shot and killed the Palestinian.

But in the case of Eden Natan Zada, a right-wing Israeli who went on a killing spree in the Palestinian-Israeli town of Shfaram in 2005, killing four civilians and injuring a dozen more with gunshot wounds, the Palestinian-Israelis who attempted to subdue the heavily-armed Zada by beating him down with their hands have now been charged with murder.

One of the 12 Palestinian-Israelis indicted in the case, Jamil Safuri, told an Israeli reporter, “All Arab citizens of Israel are united in our struggle, because it is clear to all of them of that we are the victim and those who support Zada are the real murderers."

Protests held Saturday in the town of Shfaram included hundred of local residents and Palestinian-Israeli Members of the Knesset, who condemned the Israeli decision to prosecute the twelve men, saying that they acted in self defense to stop the slaughter of innocents that Zada was engaged in.

Toronto Star answers the call... Comparison of Front Page news stories

in Double Standard, Gaza, Israel, Media, Palestine, Toronto Star

C.F. Bernadotte

ltamar Eichner(Ynetnews.com);

"Israel has decided to take advantage of Thursday's
bloody terror attack in Jerusalem in order to launch
an aggressive campaign against Hamas.

Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the political echelon
instructed the Government Press Office to distribute
the shocking images from the yeshiva shooting worldwide,
including pictures of holy books perforated with bullets,
a blood-stained praying shawl and the terrorist's
body inside the yeshiva.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister
Tzipi Livni decided that the Foreign Ministry would
work to convey the Israeli messages to the international
community.

Livni spoke to a large number of foreign ministers and
expressed the State of Israel's abhorrence over the
deadly attack."full text;

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/
ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/
1,2506,L-3516174,00.html

Attached is jpeg of front page of today's Toronto Star.

For comparison I have attached the front pages for Mar 1
(day after 18 Arabs killed in Gaza), Mar. 2(day after 30
Arabs killed in Gaza), and Mar 3(day after 39 Arabs
killed in Gaza).