US Funds Used to Abuse Palestinian Human Rights

Background: Israeli-Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh is someone to watch. Based on a perusal of some of his past articles, he is hardly an Israeli-Arab version of the vocal pro-Israel Arab-American Joseph Farah . But he has risked his life by openly and repeatedly reporting the truth about the Palestinian authority which he covers from the inside. His most recent expose is about how U.S. funds for the Palestinian Authority are used to abuse Palestinian human rights : The leaders of the Palestinian Authority do not want the international community to hear anything about massive abuse of human rights and intimidation of journalists that its security forces are practicing almost on a daily basis in the West Bank. They [the PA] want the U.S. and the rest of the world to continue believing that peace will prevail tomorrow morning... [read full story]                    

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