Daily Archives: October 17, 2015


Israel Sends $50 Million a Month to the Palestinians?

Why Israel Collects Taxes for the Palestinian Authority By Daniel Engber  (February 2006) Israel’s prime minister will decide on Sunday whether to begin economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority. To protest the new Hamas-led government, Israel may stop sending the Palestinians the $50 million a month in taxes it collects on their behalf. Why does Israel collect taxes for the Palestinians? That’s the arrangement they worked out during […]