From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:21:59 +0000, Adam
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:

>> I was thinking of the tax collection they do for the PA
>
>Chuckle.
>
>They do tax collection on Palestinians. They have since before there was
>a PA. Now they hand most of that over to the PA, though not all.

Apparently not any, these days:

http://analysis.threatswatch.org/2006/03/triangulating-hamas-abbas-and/
Hamas needs money. The traditional sources of funds into their newly
acquired Palestinian Authority have either already been cut off (nearly $60
million per month via Israeli tax collections) or is in serious doubt
(hundreds of millions per year from the US and from the European Union).

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