IRAN to donate $50m to help the Palestinian Authority

First Lady · Post by **First Lady** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:55 pm

Iran's pledge followed a visit from top Hamas official Khaled Meshaal, after the group appealed to Muslim nations to help make up the shortfall.

On Saturday Russia said it would also grant financial aid.

Mr Meshaal, at a fundraising event in the Iranian capital, Tehran, said the Palestinian administration was $1.7bn in debt.

He said a further $170m a month was needed to run the administration, out of which $115m went to paying salaries.

The EU gives about 500m euros ($600m) a year to the Palestinian Authority, but said last week that aid would be suspended.

Hamas has refused EU demands to recognise Israel and renounce violence.

The US Treasury this week further tightened the screws on Palestinian cash by banning American nationals from doing business with the Hamas-led authority.

'Work with Hamas'

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran was determined to help the Palestinians.

"I am honoured to announce that Iran has donated $50m to help the Palestinian nation," he said in a televised speech.

"We warn that if the aid is cut and if this continues in the near future, this land will witness a humanitarian disaster," he added.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last week that withholding aid to the Palestinians was a mistake.

"Hamas should... recognise Israel and sit down at the negotiating table. But for that it's necessary to work with them," he said.

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Whats wrong with Arab countries ? Russia is even willing to give these miskiinin money to sort their country out.

fagash_killer · Post by **fagash_killer** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:03 pm

like i said **** sauidi arabie,kuwait,yordan,egypt those 4 big arab countries are beeing owned by the americans they promised to send their money to the palastenians and the goverment after the eu refused now the palastenians ar hoping 2 get their money of the muslim civialians in that countrie its sad wallahi iran gacan ba u tagay wallahi they are the only number 1 oo true muslims ah

First Lady · Post by **First Lady** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:09 pm

These persians are the true muslims the only ones who arent afraid of the U.S ..and willing to help their muslim brothers.....this SHYT makes me so angry walahi, Ilaahay ba ka dambeeya all these so called OIL obsessed Saudi's

LionHeart-112 · Post by **LionHeart-112** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:19 pm

Arab governments are absolutely USELESS!

pathetic bastards...Qatar or Bahrain can donate enough money to the Palestinians to last them for years, let alone Saudi, Kuwait and UAE..

Remember how much kuwait & UAE donated to Katrina Disaster??? in the other 100's of millions...They know ho wto kiss ass but they won't help their starving brothers and sisters..

fagash_killer · Post by **fagash_killer** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:29 pm

[quote="First Lady"]These persians are the true muslims the only ones who arent afraid of the U.S ..and willing to help their muslim brothers.....this SHYT makes me so angry walahi, Ilaahay ba ka dambeeya all these so called OIL obsessed Saudi's[/quote]

well said

Salahuddiin · Post by **Salahuddiin** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:34 am

Qatar also pledged to give $50 million to palestinians. Let's hope that other muslim countries follow...

Qatar said on Monday it will give $50 million in aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority despite calls from the United States and European Union to cut off funding
unless the Hamas-led government recognizes Israel.

A Foreign Ministry official told the state-owned Qatar News Agency the aid decision "stems from Qatar's support for the Palestinian people".

The Syrian government announced it would launch a public fundraising campaign for the PA, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported Sunday.

According to the report, Syrian Vice-President Farouq Shara declared that bank accounts would be opened for people to transfer donations to the Palestinians. Shara was speaking in a joint press conference with former Iranian President Akhar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Tehran.

biko · Post by **biko** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:39 am

iranians are more muslims than all the suni population in the world...

inshaalah soon i'll be converting to shia...

Mowhawk · Post by **Mowhawk** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:58 am

[quote="biko"]iranians are more muslims than all the suni population in the world...

inshaalah soon i'll be converting to shia...[/quote]

Laughing

Isatqfura-Allah

Brother Biko when you convert to Shia, will you start hating us, and what Shia Imaam will you be following? Do you understand and accept the Shia Doctrine? I know that you are joking.

Let us look this issue from a different perspective, one that kept me thinking of it in my own head many, many times. My fellow friends, please excuse me while I take off the emotional shirt for a little while in regards to my points below.

Hamas's financial constraint was predictable and to tell you the truth, Hamas's weakness and mistakes are two-fold.

First, it has a moral implications for many Muslims who support Hamas because it exposed Hamas's total disregard for the Chechnayan Muslim people and their cause. This issue has bewildered me. Recently, Hamas has been cajooling, lobbying and accepting Russian support and money, and this in turn is building the image and the reputation of the Russians as a regime more friendlier towards Muslims than the west, when the Russians have oppressed and wiped out a whole Muslim country and nation (Chechnaya) from the face of the earth in a very short period of time. The Russians have successfully grazed to the ground the whole of Cechnaya, and 95% of Chechnayans are refugees, and in their daily lives are huanted by the Russians like a pack of wolves. The dillemma is how can Hamas on one hand, expect the soldarity of other Muslims, when they themselves are dealing closely with a regime that ethnicly cleansed/ing millions of Chechnayan Muslims? Do they only care about the butter and bread of the Palestinian people even if that means denegrading the notion of Muslim brotherhood and solidarity in the case of the Cechnayan people? Is one cause of a Muslim nation and populace more worthy than another? I know and understand that Hamas is attempting to better the Palestinian national interest for the benefit of the Palestinian people. It is a nationalistic Palestinian cause, that is why I understand the situation more clearly now, and would never address it again as an Islamic cause.

My second point is Hamas now runs the Palestinian Authority which is not an actual government and not an actual authority. It is merely based on an institution that fulfills few of the basic functions of governance, but not the most critical, such as defense of their people, or the preservation of a people's autonomy, or even the independent taxation of their own people.

Why do they voluntarily accepted a system based on those responsibilities of governance over their own people to fall under the control and authority of Israel. They voluntarily accepted taxation, defense and autonomy to be in the hands of the Israeli's, and accepted the lesser roles that are advantegous to the Israeli's such as general policing. Was Hamas's decission wise and strategic to seek responsibility for a mechanism/authority which forces whom ever is in power to compromise and capitulate and submit just to insure the self preservation of its own people? Why did they accept the notion that the Palestinian Authority recieve taxes from its people only through Israel? The Palestinian Authority are powerless to protect the property of its people from settlers, or from the Israeli incursions, or even protect their own waters flowing under the feet of its people?

What was the idea and the meaning of Hamas controlling the Palestinian Authority? They should have known that they have decided to travel down a road that does not lead to any destination. Why will they go some place they don't even want to go? They either recognize Israel and run a non-existant state on conditions set and designed only to be a subverient to the Israelis, or go back to their armed resistance and stop pretending to fill the shoes of the likes of the late Arafat and Abas.

Politics is always dirty.

biko · Post by **biko** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:32 am

"There is no god but AllÃƒÂ¡h, Muhammad is the Messenger of AllÃƒÂ¡h, AlÃƒÂ is the Friend of AllÃƒÂ¡h. The Successor of the Messenger of AllÃƒÂ¡h And his first Caliph."

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what islamic brotherhood are you talking about bro? what takes place in chechnya is their problem and as much as anyone feel for their strugle, why should it stop palestinians to take aid from the russians? the russians arnt the only ones who are hurting muslims today. the unitted nation and america as well as the EU were contributing towards palestinian aid while at the same time, they watched israeli tanks destroy palestinian homes and use their children as target practice. why should they refuse any aid from anyone whos willing to dig a little deeper than their so called muslim brothers who are too busy siping buds and manhandling goats.

First Lady · Post by **First Lady** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:57 pm

[quote="LionHeart-112"]Arab governments are absolutely USELESS!

pathetic bastards...Qatar or Bahrain can donate enough money to the Palestinians to last them for years, let alone Saudi, Kuwait and UAE..

Remember how much kuwait & UAE donated to Katrina Disaster??? in the other 100's of millions...They know ho wto kiss ass but they won't help their starving brothers and sisters..[/quote]

I remember after the 9/11 attack, all these arabs giving checks to help out those people who lost family members, NACALAA KU YAALIIN

The_Don_of_djibouti · Post by **The_Don_of_djibouti** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:06 pm

I have said it before and will say it again....

If Allah is The All-Beneficent, The Most Merciful, The King, The Sovereign, The Almighty, the Self-Sufficient.

And if allah have blessed me with a simple mind to tell from right and wrong.

Then the king in saudi arabia who rules with a vodka in his right hand and a copy of the koran (not sure if it is authentic) on his left.

And the noble muslim rulers of iran (whether shia or ougadougo).

Then the noble muslim rulers of Iran are blessed with deen and the correct islamic role model of our times.

Allah uu akbaar may allah makes us those that support our muslims brothers/sisters in blood , money or time.

First Lady · Post by **First Lady** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:11 pm

Amiin

biko · Post by **biko** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:15 pm

so who else want to join me and the don of djibouti and becaome shia's.

First Lady · Post by **First Lady** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:18 pm

I want to BUT

I dont think i have what it takes to be a good shia

biko · Post by **biko** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:22 pm

first lady

there is nothing to it, just repeat after me.

i biko bullale declare that...

"There is no god but AllÃƒÂ¡h, Muhammad is the Messenger of AllÃƒÂ¡h, AlÃƒÂ is the Friend of AllÃƒÂ¡h. The Successor of the Messenger of AllÃƒÂ¡h And his first Caliph."

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