The Palestinian Central Council and the 'Red Eye' Against the Occupation State
The article examines Israeli deductions from Palestinian tax revenues to compensate alleged collaborators and legal rulings fining the Palestinian National Authority; it criticizes Israeli policy toward Palestinian institutions and society.
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15-8-2018
- Israel deducts compensation for its collaborators ...from the Palestinians' due tax revenues. It has. Al-Quds newspaper published today 15-8-2018, quoting the Israeli newspaper Maariv published yesterday, that the occupation authorities deducted the amount of 1.83 million shekels from the tax revenues due to it on behalf of the Palestinian Authority... and that was to compensate a group of collaborators and informants working with it.. numbering 52 persons.. on the grounds that they were subjected to torture...during their interrogation...in the Authority's prisons in the West Bank. According to the occupation authorities' claim.... The matter concerns collaborators whom the security apparatuses affiliated with the Palestinian Authority arrested in the 1990s and the beginning of 2000, on charges of spying for the Israeli occupation, collecting information of a security nature...and providing it to the occupation..."
- The occupation authorities had deducted earlier this year...the amount of half a million shekels...to cover legal expenses and the costs of medical reports....for these collaborators.... Likewise, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled to fine the Palestinian National Authority the amount of 13.2 million shekels....... Exactly as the occupation authorities constantly do, when they decide to demolish Palestinian homes in annexed Jerusalem.... under the racist pretext: lack of permits....and in an exercise of humiliation and an attempt to break the spine...they demand that the unfortunate Palestinian homeowner pay the demolition expenses, and if he cannot..he must demolish his house himself...with the help of his children...these acts...are relics of Nazism...without hesitation...and without silence...!!!
- Collaborators who were recruited by the occupation authorities through their various agencies, from the arenas of the Palestinian areas occupied in 1967... (citizens bearing Palestinian identity cards) in my belief, and it is possible that they or some of them later held Israeli identity cards. Or fled to Israel.. but they are collaborators, who committed a crime against their people...they were arrested when the Palestinian Authority arrived..and were interrogated, like any interrogation that takes place in the world, with any citizen who committed a crime, and betrayed his country in favor of the enemy...and supplied it with vital information that harmed thousands of Palestinian soldiers..... Even this natural right of any authority, or entity, or tribal group.....was stripped from the Palestinian Authority...and it was also fined on this basis, because it tortured them according to the court's claim...and Israel compensated them, from the Palestinian Authority's pocket...(from the tax revenues due to the Palestinians). As an expression...of superiority and arrogance. ,...Israel does not recognize and never has recognized, in reality, the Palestinian Authority's rights to administer its society as it sees and decides...... As for the Palestinians....it is forbidden for them to pay small compensations to the families of their martyred sons and prisoners ..who fought and are fighting the Israeli occupation...which is sitting on what remains of their land......and what was allocated for these Palestinian matters was deducted....from the Palestinian funds returned from taxes and import duties..(tax revenues - clearance).
- It is clear that Israel does not place weight, nor pay attention, to any agreement with the Palestinian Authority, whether it is in force or expired, or any understandings between the two parties.. and it revels in its arrogance....and consolidates the concept ...that it alone is the master. who has the right to command...and the Palestinians have only to implement their decisions, and the decisions of their courts...which are conducted according to their goals...completing the Zionist rowdiness. in ancient times...that Palestine is a land without a people, and they continue to expand in the remaining land ...of Palestine... and it emanates from the lines and provisions of their racist laws...that they yearn for historic Palestine...according to their narrative...and therefore they will cross borders...as the symbol of the two lines on their flag (the two great rivers) indicates.........and the Nation-State Law...is a basic step adopted....in the drawn Zionist direction...and the realization of their historical dreams...
- Let the "red eye"....be present in the discussions and the decisions that will be issued..... from this important meeting.... Do not put down your pens.... before you record..binding decisions..!!.. May God guide your steps, and prolong your lives....
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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “The Palestinian Central Council and the 'Red Eye' Against the Occupation State” (English translation of «المجلس المركزي الفلسطيني و" العين الحمراء" في وجه دولة الاحتلال..», originally published 20 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/the-palestinian-central-council-and-the-red-eye
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