When you financially support the Palestinian authority (PA), you are supporting Israel and not the Palestinians
Today, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom announced the launch of the Emergency Coalition for the Financial Sustainability of the Palestinian Authority
The financial scandal is that the money of the PA is kept in Israeli banks, and the currency that the PA uses
for its spending is Israeli Shekel. Each dollar or euro you give to the PA is foreign
currency that goes directly into the Israeli economy
The PA does not use your dollars; instead, it exchanges them for Shekels. This is partly how the economy of Israel stays strong despite everything. Israel has not only occupied a population equal to its own size and taken over its labor and natural resources, but also appropriated its foreign financial support. When Europe and other Arab countries donate money to the PA, they are donating to Israel, not to the Palestinians. They are providing Israel with a source of income, which is, the occupation and the suffering of the Palestinians
When Europe and other Arab countries donate money to the PA, the PA buys Israeli Shekels with these donations and uses them for its spendings (mainly for salaries of the public sector). The more donations there are, the better it is for the Israeli economy. This is a foreign currency that ends up in the Israeli economy
It is like the international trade of a local product: the occupation and the Palestinian suffering are the product. The PA purchases its own occupation from Israel, while Europe and Arab countries finance it. You are paying for the occupation. You are consuming the occupation
The greater the Palestinians’ distress, the more you
donate, and the more money flows directly to the Israeli economy. This will
never stop; you are sustaining the occupation and the suffering. You are
complicit, stop doing that, and end the occupation now.
There is no other way but ending the occupation and we need to end it
NOW
The Palestinians are trapped in the Israeli economy. Do not financially support this system, break the siege, and end the occupation now
Only a fully sovereign Palestinian state, not a symbolic recognition, can end this suffering. If not, then a one democratic state for both Israelis and Palestinians. But this suffering must end. In the meantime, your donations and your financial support are making things worse
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