Saudi payment to PA could buy valuable time. Pledged $100m. would prop up PA while Israel would decide how to deal with Hamas

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: January 30, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

HERB KEINON
Jerusalem Post
01-30-2006
Headline: Saudi payment to PA could buy valuable time. Pledged $100m. would prop up PA while Israel would decide how to deal with Hamas
Byline: HERB KEINON
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 01

Monday, January 30, 2006 -- Saudi Arabia could bail the Palestinian Authority out of an impending fiscal crisis following the landslide victory of Hamas if it transfers the $100 million it pledged to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas when he visited there in late December.

In addition to bailing out the PA, the money would also give Israel and the world more time to ponder ...

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