While the EU and Arab leaders castigate Bush for refusing to deal anymore with Arafat. Take a look at what is happening on the street in Gaza and ask yourself who is REALLY out of touch with events in Palistine? These pictures were taken Monday the 1st. I got them strait off the wires, but funny they never made it into any news broadcasts...

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The PA's unannounced non-payment of July welfare benefits is puzzling as even the US has only threatened to cut aid, it hasn' done so yet and the EU has catagoriclly refused to cut aid. Aid from Arab states isn't in question so...what is Mr. Arafat doing with all the aid money?

So thats how that dirty SOB funds the boatloads of illegal arms shipments and explosives into the region...and all this time I thought he was using the money for medical supplies and food for the martyrs...errrr, uhhhh...i mean people he loves so dearly...

Its about time some of the Palestinians are begining to see the truth.  Too bad it took them decades of hardship and violence.  They seem to be a pretty thick-headed lot though...I'm sure it will be a few more decades before they are really willing to do something about it.

I hope this is the truth!

Post the link this is coming from.

edited cuz i cant spell

[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/ts/080601mideast&i=index&e=1&tmpl=sl&nosum=0&large=0&t=1025639684[/url]

And scroll to the middle thirties.

Here is a article, filed a day late, from the AP that trys to downplay the protests.
[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_5292[/url]

And a earlier version with less spin
[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020702/ap_wo_en_po/israel_palestinians_5290[/url]

And what the Isreali papers say:
[url]http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=182161&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0[/url]

Arafat fires security and police chiefs:

[url]http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20020702/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinian_dismissals_2[/url]

Trying to eliminate competition? And can he actually remove them when he is trapped in his building again?

According to rumours reported by Yedioth Aharonot and Ma'ariv, at the beginning of the Intifada, most of the funds that USA and EU sent to Palestinian Authorities are in Israeli and Swiss banks.

In the PERSONAL bank account of Mr. Yasser Arafat, of course...