Re: Iran Pours Millions into Supporting Hamas Infrastructure WWW.PROISRAELFOREVER.COM

Thank you for this post.

Susan


On 6-Jun-2006, proisraelforever@xxxxxxx wrote:

Iran has become a key player in funneling money to "charitable"
organizations in the PA which finance suicide bombers and their
families. The money helps keep the Hamas government afloat.

The PA's own semi-official newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadida has been
covering the distribution of Iranian funds to PA terrorists and their
families via "charitable" organizations set up for that purpose.

On June 1, the paper published a report about how an organization, Al
Ansar, affiliated with the Hamas, distributed $1.8 million of gifts to
the families of suicide bombers in Gaza.

The head of the organization, Nafez El-Araj, told the paper how his
organization distributed money to the families of 2,900 Arab
terrorists. Each family was allocated a grant for rebuilding houses
that were destroyed by the IDF as part of its campaign to deter
potential suicide bombers.

Over the past three months, Iran has contributed another $1.3 million
to 2,020 families of terrorists in Judea and Samaria.

Organizations such as Al Ansar, which distribute millions to Arab
terrorist families, contribute substantially to the level of public
support for the Hamas in the Palestinian Authority, and reduce the
effectiveness of economic sanctions against Hamas.

Iranian money allows the Hamas to develop a powerful social, economic,
and educational system in the PA which bolsters public support for the
group and its terrorist infrastructure.

Israel and Western countries are hoping that economic sanctions against
the Hamas ultimately will bear fruit. On Monday, an angry mob of PA
employees rampaged into a branch of the Arab Bank in Gaza, demanding
back pay from the PA.

The bank, worried about the threat of sanctions from the United States
for supporting terrorism, and legal actions against bank assets held
abroad, refused to pay out money for debts owed by the Hamas. After
breaking into the bank, the PA employees attacked the branch manager.

In contrast to the Arab Bank, the Bank of Palestine, headquartered in
the PA, paid out salaries of up to NIS 1,500 to PA employees with
accounts at that bank.

After the attack, managers of the Arab Bank, which is headquartered in
Jordan, decided to shut all bank branches in the Gaza district. A
spokesman for the Jordanian government said the bank would close its
remaining branches in Judea and Samaria if violence against the bank
continues.

Terrorist factions in the PA have already warned that they will
continue attacks against banks refusing to pay out salaries to
employees of the Hamas government in the PA. They justified such
attacks by saying that those banks were aiding and abetting the enemy.
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