World Bank Funding Terrorism

[Mediocrates]

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WORLD BANK FUNDING TERRORISM
Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, an independent monitoring organization, has revealed that the World Bank is indirectly funding terrorism carried out by Palestinian Authority-based organizations.

Marcus reports that World Bank officials met with PA representatives last month to discuss significant World Bank investment in "the infrastructure for the Palestinian institutions of higher education." (Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 25, 2004)

However, Marcus says, those same PA universities "all have official student branches of Hamas (called Al-Kutlah Al-Islamiyah) and Islamic Jihad (called Al-Jama'ah Al-Islamiyah), both terrorist organizations outlawed on the US and EU terrorist list. The World Bank will be building the university infrastructures that will be used by student terrorist organizations to form the backbone of suicide terrorism in coming years."

The PMW's Marcus provides ample evidence of such use of foreign funding. At An-Najah University, for example, student representatives of the Islamic Jihad used school facilities to create installation art celebrating the 2001 Sbarro's pizzeria bombing. The display included a mock pizza parlor splattered with pizza and body parts.

Arab students who were active in PA university-based cells of Hamas and Islamic Jihad alone have been responsible for the deaths of 53 people and the injuring of more than 100 in several terrorist bombings.

The current pledge by the World Bank will not be its first foray into promoting terrorism "through negligence or by turning a blind eye," PMW reports. Last year, the Bank funded "development of the Dalal Mughrabi Street" in Gaza, named for a terrorist who murdered 36 Israelis and the American photographer Gail Rubin in a 1978 bus hijacking, as well as construction of a school in Jenin named after the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Abu Ali Mustafa, responsible for planning and executing numerous bombings in Israel.

And it is not just the World Bank. Citing several PA media reports, the PMW Director charges that aid organizations such as the German Development Agency, the United Nations Development Project and USAID have provided funds for projects memorializing Arab terrorists and promoting terrorism.

In a particularly ironic twist, "USAID funded projects in... the Arab American University in Jenin, which sponsored numerous anti-American and terrorist-supporting rallies last year," Marcus says. "One event included 'blessings' to those fighting American soldiers in Iraq. The rally opened with 'a speech given by the Arab-American University lecturer Dr. Hamad Hussein... He blessed the Iraqi resistance for its firm stand against the American- British occupation...' [Al-Ayyam, Nov. 4, 2003] This and other anti-American activities continued while USAID was funding programs at this university." (In a January 2004 letter to PMW, a USAID representative said that USAID has ceased funding PA universities directly, and is now giving scholarships to students.)

"If the World Bank funds PA universities without demanding the closure of their terror branches, this may be the most direct financing of terrorism to date by the World Bank," Itamar Marcus concludes.

[Batman]

Originally posted by Mediocrates
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WORLD BANK FUNDING TERRORISM
Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, an independent monitoring organization, has revealed that the World Bank is indirectly funding terrorism carried out by Palestinian Authority-based organizations.

.........(see above)

Isn't the World Bank connected with the United Nations?

Does anyone have any info on it, like who are the members, how much money they allocate and to whom and what? (in addition to the PA Terror network)

Which Americans are part of the World Bank, etc.

thanks

[Oh Jerusalem]

I don't know the answers to your questions, but while we're on the subject:

Condoleezza Rice fundraises for the PA (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1083647030871&p=1006953079865)
By MICHAEL FREUND

Congratulations would appear to be in order for US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

In addition to her already weighty responsibilities as President George W. Bush's chief adviser and confidante, Rice has now added a new task to her resume: chief fund-raiser for Yasser Arafat.

According to a May 3 article in The Washington Post, the Bush administration has launched a "diplomatic offensive" aimed at allaying Arab concerns regarding the president's recent embrace of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan. Among other things, the paper notes, "the administration in recent days has tried to emphasize its concern for the Palestinians."

This has included an effort to drum up financial support for the PA.

"As part of the diplomatic offensive," the report says, "national security adviser Condoleezza Rice last week called some Arab countries that were behind in making payments to shore up the Palestinian Authority."

Isn't that thoughtful of her. With American casualties mounting daily in Iraq, Osama Bin-Laden still on the run, and North Korea threatening to develop more nuclear weapons, doesn't Rice have better things to do than making sure Arafat can balance his checkbook?

Indeed, Rice's telethon on behalf of the PA is particularly astonishing in light of some of the Palestinians' recent actions.

Just this past weekend the PA transferred funds to Hamas-affiliated organizations in Gaza, claiming that economic conditions in the territories were the reason for the move. But if the PA itself is truly in such need of funds that the US national security adviser must intervene, why is it showering money on Hamas terrorists?

Moreover, it is difficult to comprehend why Rice is seeking to keep the PA afloat despite all the evidence indicating that it is actively engaged in terror against Israel.

In the past three years, and particularly during Operation Defensive Shield, Israel has uncovered thousands of official PA documents – including many with Arafat's handwritten approval – proving direct PA financing of terrorist attacks and other acts of violence.

Even the State Department, in its annual report released last month on "Global Patterns of Terrorism," linked the PA with terror.

"The PA's efforts to thwart terrorist operations were minimal in 2003," the report said, and "some personnel in the security services, including several senior officers, have continued to assist terrorist operations."

Doesn't Rice read her own government's reports? If not, then she is probably also unaware that PA incitement against both Israel and the US has continued unabated in recent months.

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), an official arm of the US government, monitors electronic and print media worldwide and publishes a daily digest of translations.

According to the FBIS, PA television broadcast a Friday prayer sermon from the Zayid bin-Sultan mosque in Gaza on March 26, in which the preacher called upon Allah to "shake the land under the Zionists and the United States and its allies. O Allah, show us a black day for the Jews, the Americans, and their supporters. O Allah, avenge the blood of our martyrs."

Just two weeks earlier, the FBIS reported, a sermon broadcast on PA television on March 14 had this to say: "Here are the Jews today taking revenge for their grandfathers and ancestors, the sons of apes and pigs This is the extremist tendency of Jews. They are extremists and terrorists who deserve death, while we deserve life, since we have a just cause."

More recently, on April 30, a Palestinian preacher again prayed for the downfall of America, telling his audience on PA television, "O Allah, support our kinfolk in Iraq. O Allah, direct the shots of the holy warriors for your sake. O Allah, shake the land under the pillars of the United States and its allies."

This too was documented in a FBIS digest, yet that does not appear to have prevented Rice from seeking to bail the PA out of financial trouble.

IT HAS been nearly seven months now since three Americans were killed by Palestinian terrorists in an attack on a US diplomatic convoy in Gaza on October 15. Under US pressure the Palestinians eventually arrested several suspects, who then "escaped" from a Palestinian prison last month under extremely suspicious circumstances.

Last month it was reported that the US now has evidence indicating that PA Chairman Arafat personally authorized the attack in order to "convey a message" to Washington (Ma'ariv, April 14).
Based on Rice's recent telephone activity, it would seem fair to say that the message has gotten through loud and clear; for instead of shutting down all financial support to the PA, Washington is inexplicably trying to keep Arafat's lines of credit open.

In so doing, the Bush administration is not only undermining the moral clarity of its own war on terror, it is also indirectly facilitating the funding of anti-Israel terrorist attacks.

If Rice insists on continuing to serve as a fundraiser, she would do well to consider adopting a better cause to promote. Rather than collecting money for Yasser Arafat and his hired hands of terror, she might wish to lend a hand to their many victims. They are, I would think, far more deserving of her time and assistance.

The writer served as director of communications & policy planning under former premier Binyamin Netanyahu.

[Batman]

I just heard on Rush Limbaugh (WABC Radio, 770 AM) yesterday or the day before that there is a $100 billion corruption charges against the World Bank.

(I bet you Kofe Annan got a chunk of that one....)

Anyone has an article on it?


PS: What happened to dear old Con Doleezza ????? She used to sound less like Powell and now, he can't hold a candle to her.....or am I mistaken?

[RichardP]

Originally posted by Batman
I just heard on Rush Limbaugh (WABC Radio, 770 AM) yesterday or the day before that there is a $100 billion corruption charges against the World Bank.

(I bet you Kofe Annan got a chunk of that one....)

Anyone has an article on it?


PS: What happened to dear old Con Doleezza ????? She used to sound less like Powell and now, he can't hold a candle to her.....or am I mistaken?

I must try and dig up more info, hell; this is enough to make me sick. Though, honestly, it doesn’t surprise me one iota.
I thought the same about her; hell, I'd better start wearing glasses, as I'm not seeing things that I should be lately. Perhaps, hopefully; it's just a case of information overload, and I'm not really brain-dead.