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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The problem with Hamas and every other Arab terrorist group is Islam, a Bronze Age death-cult.  All superstition is stupid, but Islam is stupid and dangerous.  O NOES, the Ayatollah will issue a fatwa against me!  Maybe the Pakistanis and Libyans will riot some more!

Fuck the Arabs.  They lost, and, unlike them, the Jews were too civilized to exterminate their foes, so they've been whining about it and occasionally strapping on bomb belts for sixty years.  Fuck them.  Fuck them in the ass.  Fuck them in the ass with a rusty chainsaw.

When and if enough of the craziest and stupidest of them kill themselves, maybe the remaining population will have evolved enough to reject loony superstition and may eventually be able to take a place at the table with the other civilizations.  Not before.  Wall them off and let them stew in their own juices.  It's merciful in the long run because it will accelerate the process.