So in addition to all the other forms of control, Israel collects and can restrict Palestinian taxes. Tell me again, Israeli propagandists, how Israel doesn't actually occupy what is rightfully internationally known as Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
It's not an Apartheid because anyone calling it an Apartheid is worse than Hitler - Ben Gvir.
And some will still have the audacity to say that palestine is not colonized
As if they wouldn't have done this shit anyways.
The US will just send the money to Palestine instead of Israel now, right?
My guess is: not for several years, and then it will be part of an incredibly expensive reparations deal to rebuild what American munitions are currently destroying.
I don't think the US believes in reparations.
DC did, once: www.snopes.com/fact-check/slave-owners-paid-reparations/
That was paid to the slave owners.
Correct.
But don't you see? The reparations will be done by American companies, owned by American shareholders. And they will put infrastructure into place operated by American companies. And American companies will help to uhh develop the countries resource extraction in particular Gas in the Mediterranean Sea.
Think of all the money that will go from your tax payments straight back to some rich Americans!
If Congress allowed it, perhaps (they have to okay budgets). But Congress is full of GOP and center-right democrats that would rather give more money and weapons to Israel instead. So good luck with that.
Personally, I don't understand why the US government has continued to fun Israel when it's clearly failed to become a disaster. They've spent over $250 Billion on Israel aid, and it's failed.
Because there is strong lobbies in the US that has direct impact on elections. They are som of the strongest lobbies in the US and are jewish. If one party leader goes against them they will make it so that they lose the next election.
(adding to the reasons people already cited: Israel is where the us launches its imperialist attacks on the middle east from, so they have a strategic reason to keep it around)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
He said in a statement that he had informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would no longer send tax revenues to the authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank in close cooperation with Israel.
Mohammad Mustafa, the recently inaugurated Palestinian Authority prime minister, warned that the dire fiscal situation was contributing to a “very serious moment” in the West Bank, which has faced increasing unrest since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority is already in a severe financial crisis following tightened Israeli restrictions on its funding and a depressed West Bank economy stemming from the war.
Top Israeli officials, including Mr. Netanyahu, have repeatedly excoriated international recognition of a Palestinian state as a “prize for terrorism” after the Oct. 7 attack.
Most of the current hard-line Israeli government rejects the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, practically ruling out peace talks to end Israel’s decades-long occupation.
President Biden and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken have said that after the war, Gaza should be unified with the West Bank under a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority.
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