 Hamas has intimated that the office of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, along with "familiar symbols of the previous Palestinian Authority," is emptying the coffers of the new Palestinian government.
In a statement issued Thursday in a flyer, Hamas leveled its harshest attack to date against the PA and Abbas' office, adding a veiled accusation that the previous government was working with foreign elements to bring down the new government. The Hamas statement said the government "had been stripped of all its savings and cleaned out of all income sources such as border crossings and the Palestinian investment funds and other sources." These funds, controlled in the past by the Palestinian finance ministry, have now been placed under the personal aegis of the PA chairman.
| Yup, it's a real shame that Abbas has turned into a garden-variety klepto. Just think what Hamas could do with all that money. |
"Hamas is surprised at the participation of Palestinian elements in the campaign against our people. Those symbols are conspiring to place responsibility for the economic crisis on the Hamas government," the statement said.
Their statements and their actions make clear that their aim, in cooperation with the occupation and America, is to bring about the failure of the government and to establish a new government contrary to the Palestinian interest," Hamas said in the statement.
| Always amusing to listen to a Paleo talk about the 'Palestinian interest'. |
Hamas says it has information that elements in Fatah are already organizing marches and protests against the withholding of PA salaries, which have not been paid since the beginning of the month with no payment date in sight.
| That shoe on the other foot is beginning to pinch, huh. |
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