Ze'ev Schiff (Ha'aretz) - Israeli officials have recently said money the government was forced to release to the Palestinians was used by the PA to pay the wages of Fatah-Tanzim men. Israel had frozen tax revenues which it owed to the PA, saying it would be used to support terror operations, but under U.S. pressure, Israel released the funds. Israeli officials have learned that the money was used not only to pay the salaries of public servants and various security officials, but on Arafat's orders, some of it went to pay Tanzim men. The sources label this sequence as tragically absurd - Israel being obliged to pay the wages of terrorists who attack it.
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