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Source: http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=270411
Ex-Arafat Adviser: PA Funded Arab Israeli Parties
(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Muhammad Rashid, the former economic adviser to Yasser Arafat who is wanted by the Palestinian Authority for embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars, told Al-Arabiya TV on Thursday that the PA had provided financial aid to Arab parties during general elections in Israel. He also demanded an investigation into the source of PA President Mahmoud Abbas' wealth. "When Mahmoud Abbas returned to the Palestinian territories [in 1993], I gave him $25,000 at the request of the late president Yasser Arafat," Rashid claimed. "Today, he and his sons have palaces and property estimated at 15 million Jordanian dinars [$21 million] in Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia and other places."