Publication

2006

The decision by Western donors to stop funding the Palestinian Authority (PA) since Hamas received a democratic mandate from the population of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OT) in January 2006 has been big in the media headlines but provoked very little debate. Why should it have? How could taxpayer money - mainly European, as the United States has almost never funded the PA directly - go to a government that does not recognise Israel and that is not ready to renounce violence?

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Author Anne Le More
Series IAI International Spectator
Issue 2
Publisher Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
Copyright © 2006 Istituto Affari Internazionali
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