Desde o acordo de coalizacao entre Fatah e Hamas unificando o governo da Autoridade Nacional Palestina, a entidade de ocupacao sionista decidiu confiscar e nao transferir mais de 100 milhoes de shekels coletados em impostos do governo palestino destinados ao gastos publicos dos territorios palestinos.A decisao - arbitraria e sem fundamento no Direito Internacional - tornou impossivel o pagamento dos salarios de mais de 150.000 funcionarios publicos palestinos desde o comeco do mes de abril. A pratica tem um nome: assalto! A finalidade e o estrangulamento economico e o arrasamento da sociedade palestina, inviabilizando-a politica e economicamente.Fonte: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-is-getting-away-with-robbing-palestinian-taxes-1.360975 & http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/fayyad-palestinians-may-ask-un-to-intervene-on-israel-s-freeze-of-tax-funds-1.361235 Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, or, democratic Israel at workWhile we are still desperately concealing, denying and repressing our major ethnic cleansing of 1948 - over 600,000 refugees, some who fled for fear of the Israel Defense Forces and its predecessors, some who were expelled by force - it turns out that 1948 never ended, that its spirit is still with us.By Gideon Levyhttp://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-or-democratic-israel-at-work-1.361196It happened on the day after Independence Day, when Israel was immersed in praise of itself and its democracy almost ad nauseam, and on the eve of (virtually outlawed ) Nakba Day, when the Palestinian people mark the "catastrophe" - the anniversary of the creation of Israel. My colleague Akiva Eldar published what we have always known but for which we lacked the shocking figures he revealed: By the time of the Oslo Accords, Israel had revoked the residency of 140,000 Palestinians from the West Bank. In other words, 14 percent of West Bank residents who dared to go abroad had their right to return to Israel and live here denied forever. In other words, they were expelled from their land and their homes. In other words: ethnic cleansing.While we are still desperately concealing, denying and repressing our major ethnic cleansing of 1948 - over 600,000 refugees, some who fled for fear of the Israel Defense Forces and its predecessors, some who were expelled by force - it turns out that 1948 never ended, that its spirit is still with us. Also with us is the goal of trying to cleanse this land of its Arab inhabitants as much as possible, and even a bit more. After all, that's the most covert and desired solution: the Land of Israel for the Jews, for them alone. A few people dared to say it outright - Rabbi Meir Kahane, Minister Rehavam Ze'evi and their disciples, who deserve a certain amount of praise for their integrity. Many aspire to do the same thing without admitting it.The revelation of the policy of denying residency has proved that this secret dream is in effect the establishment's secret dream. There one doesn't talk about transfer, heaven forfend; nobody would think of calling it cleansing. They don't load Arabs onto trucks as they once did, including after the Six-Day War, and they don't shoot at them to chase them away - all politically incorrect methods in the new world. But in effect that's the goal.Some people think it's enough if we make the lives of the Palestinians