Fayyad also mentioned that his government had planted 370,000 trees in the West Bank. Israel has planted 16 times as many to replace lost forests burnt mostly by Palestinians.

That leaves US as Fatah’s main sponsor, both directly and through the UN, of which the United States is the main financier. Israel keeps the terrorist entity afloat with tax transfers.

Hamas does not want to pay for fuel either.

It seems that Israel will now supply free fuel to Gaza, in addition to free water and electricity. Well, not exactly free: they send us rockets in return.

Ultra-cheap labor, free water and electricity stolen from Israel, a tax-free environment, and the politically correct European propensity to procure West Bank produce from Arabs rather than Jews ensures the Arabs’ competitiveness.

Israel collects taxes for the terrorist Palestinian entity. Technically, the taxes are levied on Palestinian laborers in Israel, but in the end they increase prices for Israeli consumers.

Khoury also claimed that Israel is somehow stifling the Palestinian economy, which is quite an accusation from an ethnic group which sports the highest economic growth rate among non-oil-producing Arabs, a feat it has accomplished by leeching off Jews for a century.

The spectacle took place in Jerusalem, which some still consider an Israeli city.

On other hand, Israel has no reason to reject the profit and pass the deal to the Egyptians, who would be happy to supply Gaza.

Not surprisingly, the plan failed. The Palestinians immediately destroyed the greenhouses, which in any case could have employed a few thousand Arabs at most. The plans for tourism were equally questionable: with excellent, cheap, and safe Red Sea resorts in Egypt, why would foreigners fly to Gaza?

It is a great testimony to Israeli oppression that the number of refugees has increased eleven-fold since 1948.

Palestinian refugee estimates are grossly inflated for political reasons, and to obtain more aid from UNRWA. The most common trick is to ignore mortality and emigration.

Nevertheless, the figures are reassuring. Even if we only accept the more conservative estimate of 1.3 million foreign “refugees,” their number is too large for any kind of Israeli-Palestinian agreement. Neither Israel nor the West Bank Palestinians can afford to have this massive, discontented, criminal population streaming into their cities. The more they breed, the less probable a two-state solution becomes.

Incidentally, the only water treatment plant in Palestine was built by Jews, and the other three—which were also built by Jews—fell into disrepair after being transferred to the Palestinians.

The Arabs dump more than 50 million cubic meters of raw sewage in Judea and Samaria every year.

But of course, Jews are guilty of that.

By far, most of the destroyed houses were associated with Palestinian terrorists. It is bizarre to aid in their reconstruction.

There is no way for Gazans to utilize $5.2 billion. Their GDP is estimated at $600 million in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. But the aid comes in nominal dollars; a ballpark nominal-to-PPP estimate would be 5:1. The aid, therefore, amounts to something like $25 billion PPP, or forty years of Gazan GDP.
Even if Gazans import all their construction materials rather than using traditional adobe blocks, the aid still exceeds their GDP manifold. Simply, Gazans don’t have enough construction workers to utilize the mammoth aid. Close to 99 percent of it will be diverted to Hamas’ other activities.

Very little of the $5.2 billion pledge will be actually transferred to the PA.

The EU and the US are UNRWA’s primary donors. They have created a communist paradise in Gaza where almost everyone is poor, but everyone’s needs are provided free. The Gazans do not have to work for living and bear no responsibility for housing, educating, or otherwise caring for their families; the UNRWA takes care of it all. Accordingly, the Arabs bred from 200,000 to 1.5 million – a mass of unskilled, criminalized people who cannot possibly be employed in the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA, which works with Palestinians, is the the only UN aid agency that provides food to a fully settled population living in its own country and facing no employment restrictions.

Likely, the promised aid won’t arrive. Fatah received less than 10% of the aid promised to it a year ago at the Paris donor conference. Arab countries promise a lot, but deliver little.

But why does Gaza need billions? Hamas promised 4,000 euro per destroyed house, which is more than enough to rebuild a modest home in Gaza. At most, the cost of repairs runs to 200 million dollars.

Curiously, the World Bank, the purported free-trade bastion, has become a leftist bunch.