{"id":48950,"date":"2019-04-22T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48950"},"modified":"2019-04-22T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T14:58:15","slug":"arab-league-pledges-100-million-to-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/arab-league-pledges-100-million-to-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab League pledges $100 million to Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7980\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Arab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"476\" \/>The Arab League has pledged to pay $100 million a month to the Palestinian Authority to plug the gap left when Israel blocked tax transfers earlier in the year.<br \/>\n\u201cWe confirm that Arab countries will support the Palestinian state\u2019s budget&#8230; (to) resist the political and financial pressure it faces,\u201d the League said Sunday following a meeting in Cairo.<br \/>\nIsrael collects taxes on behalf of the PA, but withheld $138 million in transfers in February over Palestinian payments to political prisoners jailed for attacks against Israelis.<br \/>\nThe Arab League\u2019s move comes as the Trump administration prepares to unveil a much-touted \u201cDeal of the Century\u201d for peace between the Palestinians and Israel in the coming months.<br \/>\nThe Palestinian leadership, which has boycotted Washington over a series of moves including recognizing the bitterly disputed city of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, says it can no longer trust the United States as a broker.<br \/>\nThe Arab League said the deal \u201cwill not succeed in achieving long-lasting and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.\u201d<br \/>\nThe peace plan is being developed by Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose close ties to right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have heightened Palestinian suspicions.<br \/>\nIsrael seized the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); 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