Israel stealing from Palestinians?

""The PA is -- in practice -- becoming a terrorist authority," acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet at the beginning of its meeting Sunday. "Israel will not hold contacts with a government in which Hamas takes part."

The Cabinet decided to stop the transfer of the roughly $55 million a month it collects in taxes and tariffs on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian experts estimate the Palestinian budget shortfall is about $1 billion a year, and the funds collected by Israel would cover about half of that.

The Cabinet also decided to ask the international community to stop giving money to the Palestinians, though it said humanitarian aid should continue."

(AP syndicated article)

Now I think we're all in agreement that bombing Muslims and bull-dozing their houses is justified, but confiscating their tariffs to punish them for electing a government you don't like? And not even trying to cover it up? Isn't that below even Israel?

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Like I said. Your attitude creates these problems with Hamas and other extremist groups. No middle eastern country is going to sit back and let the west hold nuclear weapons at it's throat. Just not going to fucking happen and you can't sit there and expect it to.

I'm sure that it'd be just fine with you to wipe these people off the face of the earth, but in the ADULT REAL WORLD, that's not going to take place without MASSIVE reprecussions throughout the world and if you have no problem with the possibly of another world war...then by all means pussy-boy, join the army. Join the Israelis.

My money shouldn't go to protecting Israel or that region anymore. The only reason we're really afriad of them having the bomb is because with the bomb comes the ability to say no to such things as: OCCUPATIONS FOR OIL.