Another excellent post by punky
The millions that Arafat and the PA have creamed off have been well known about, this is why Australia recently took back it's billions donation because there was no paper trail as to where the money would end up.
Some of the money that doesn't go into the politicians' swiss bank accounts goes into UN run schools, where pro-terrorist propaganda has been found.
When you see Gaza on the TV, you see the run down houses, the rubble etc, you don't see the nice million dollar houses though.
You don't hear about the hospitals that the israeli's build for them (hmm but the PA have got all that money...) or the free heart surgeory etc that the Israeli's offer them.
It's ironic that Israel was created as a land where jews and arabs could live in peace, and yet with the meddling of arab neighbours we have all this turmoil. Most israeli arabs (who are ethnicly and historically no different to the palestinians in gaza or the west bank) live as israeli citizens, in peace and prosperity.
Hopefully now Arafat has gone the peace process can start again.
And I really hope that a civil war doesn't break out between the settlers and the IDF next week while I'm there!