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?

bullshit. christianity in its darkest was much better than islam is now, especially if you consider what christians had to work with (prohibitively expensive leather books and open sewage canals, for instance). despite what you may have heard, christians didn't go around killing random people for jesus. mostly. and a lot of the people they killed weren't exactly innocent.

muslims have all the technology that the west developed available to them, and what do they do with it? they distribute videos of extremist preachers on the internet.

some people never learn. i say it's time for holocaust II.