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April 22, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/718271.html

U.S.: No Reason for Us to Pay PA Salaries

(Ha'aretz) Shmuel Rosner and Aluf Benn - A senior U.S. administration official said Sunday that the deteriorating situation in the territories makes Washington even less enthusiastic about funneling aid to the PA. "If Hamas has money to finance its people, who are riding about in cars and brandishing rifles, it should use it to pay teachers and doctors," he said. "Who's paying for their gas?" "The Hamas government is the one that ought to take care of its workers," he continued. "We have never paid the salaries of Palestinian Authority employees, and there is no reason for us to do so now." The official insisted that the U.S. and Europe have identical views of the Hamas government.

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