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From: David Amos
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:17:31 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Re Murdered and missing women Please view the pdf file hereto attached to view a copy of Lonnie Landrud's Nov 16th, 2014 letter
To: brendanorrell@gmail.com, indigenousaction@gmail.com, "carolyn.bennett"
Cc: David Amos
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From: David Amos
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 18:05:10 -0700
Subject: Re Murdered and missing women Please view the pdf file hereto
attached to view a copy of Lonnie Landrud's Nov 16th, 2014 letter
To: ceeteevee123@yahoo.ca, jack.jjlo@mts.net, "Paul.Collister"
"Jacques.Poitras"
Cc: David Amos
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2014/03/fwd-yo-bobby-boy-paulson-whereas-many.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26CrTLEVNvQ
JOAN JACK LAW OFFICE
P.O. Box 133
198 Sheslay Lane
Five Mile Reserve
Atlin, BC V0W 1A0
Tel: 1-204- 783-5556
Fax: 1-204-999-6851
Email: jack.jjlo@mymts.net
Website: www.joanjack.ca
Political Office Cellular: 1-204-999-6851
AFN Women’s Council Chair
Therese Villeneuve P.O. Box 1202
Fort Smith, NWT
X0E 0P0
Cell: (867) 446-6318
Email: ceeteevee123@yahoo.ca
Roger Augustine
AFN Regional Chief, NB/PEI
8 Gitpo Road
Eel Ground First Nation, NB
E1V 4E4
Email: chiefaugustine@hotmail.ca
Cell: 506 625 7878
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rinelle-harper-calls-for-national-inquiry-into-missing-murdered-women-1.2865353
Violence against women paid 'lip service'
Therese Villeneuve, chair of the AFN's Women's council said she's been
talking about the number of missing and murdered aboriginal women for
at least a decade.
She said it was the first time in her memory the issue was front and
centre at the national level.
"Things are happening and not good things," she said, when asked the
reason. "Nobody takes it seriously until a [tragedy] happens, and then
all of a sudden people wake up to the problem."
Villeneuve said even within the AFN, women have long been excluded
from high level discussions on the issue.
"The women's council has not been part of the executive council," she said.
Villeneuve said that has been changing over the last couple of years
and it's now having an impact.
"We were very excluded from the executive," she said. "We don't have
voting power, but at least we are at the table and that's a big
thing."
"[Former national chief] Shawn Atleo did invite us to the table and we
were able to be equal," she said. "And from then on, they started
taking us seriously. I think before we were just in the background."
Villeneuve said she's passionate about the issue of missing and
murdered women because when she was nine years old, her friend next
door was murdered.
"I never forgot about her," she said. "And this morning when Rinelle
was up there, I got really emotional because it just brought me back
to my time when I lost my little friend."
Lawyer Joan Jack, who is from Berens River, Man., and is a former
candidate for national chief, was blunt about why violence against
women has been on the back burner until now.
She said sexism and chauvinism within the aboriginal community has
been among the reasons the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal
women has received little more than lip service up till now.
"There wouldn't be 1,200 missing and murdered indigenous women if we
didn't have a problem in our community as well," she said. "It's a
problem. It's a big problem."
Censored in Indian country: Why we don't stay home
Posted by Brenda Norrell - October 26, 2015 at 2:13 pm
Censored in Indian country: Why we don't stay home
By Brenda Norrell
Photo Ecuadorian women testify by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Watching the film trailer for '43' is a chilling reminder of why we do
this, why we keep going without pay, why we do the work, spend the
time, spend the money, take the risks.
It is why we, the unpaid journalists, don't stay home.
People die, people go missing, and it is up to the un-paid, the
un-bought journalists, those who have not been corrupted by salaries
and power, to continue the work.
Earlier, those of us on the Zapatista caravan through Mexico, with
Marcos and the Comandantes, had the honor of being in Iguala,
Guerrero, Mexico. We know the power and the strength of the people
there. We know why the corrupt in Mexico attempted to extinguish the
light of these 43 future teachers in Guerrero.
On the Zapatista caravan, in Michoacan, a young Nahautl warrior from
Guerrero, who only had one leg and was in his twenties, hopped on
board our bus from Sonora, with O'odham, Yaqui and Mayo leaders. Our
Nahautl friend hopped, aided by a wooden stick for a cane. He
volunteered immediately for the security detail. When I asked him why
he was on the caravan, he said, "We have no food at home.”
During October, in Sonora, Mexico, I interviewed anthropologists who
gathered to discuss the formation and militarization of the northern
border. With the responsibility of protecting Indigenous burial places
and cultural places in Mexico, they discussed the impacts of the
ongoing violence along the northwest border in the state of Sonora,
Mexico. The militarization of the border, and encroachment of the
United States into Mexico, including weapons manufacturing at sweat
shops.
Indigenous Peoples and their cultural and burial places are in the
path of the ongoing violence in northern Mexico, including Tohono
O'odham, Comcaac (Seri), Yoeme (Yaqui) and all of the others who live
in the states of Sonora, Sinoloa and Chihuahua.
As I write this, along the northern border, Mohawk Nation News
publishes these words of the missing and murdered Indigenous women:
“In Val d’Or Quebec ongwe’hon:weh women reported being systematically
raped and tortured by the psychotic Quebec Police. Lonnie Landrud of
Quesnel BC witnessed police murdering a young ongwe’hon:weh woman and
disposing of her body on the Highway of Tears. He became aware of 8
other women being murdered by this same cop. Landrud reported the
details in this video to every police agency in the hierarchy right up
to the Prime Minister and Governor General.”
As I write this, Christine Prat, now back home in France after our
visit to Apaches sacred Oak Flat, is publishing video interviews with
Wendsler Nosie, and his granddaughter Naelyn Pike, 16, at Oak Flat,
where Apache are defending sacred land. Arizona Sen. John McCain
sneaked a land exchange bill into the defense spending bill that would
open Oak Flat to massive copper mining by Resolution Copper. The
interviews are in English with French subtitles to share with the
world.
As I write this, Michelle Cook, Dine, sends news of the testimony
before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington.
Indigenous women from Ecuador, defending human rights and the
environment, were among those from throughout the Americas testifying.
Mayan from Chiapas testified on the Massacre in Acteal.
Navajo from New Mexico testified how the United States government has
failed in radioactive cleanup and left a legacy of death, with Cold
War uranium mining tailings strewn, which have poisoned the water for
Navajos. Navajo children still play in those radioactive rocks.
In its slow and toxic ongoing genocide, the United States and its
corporate partners have targeted Indigenous lands and resources
throughout the Americas. The testimony from defenders of the
environment and human rights includes US torture and renditions and
excessive police force against African Americans in the US.
Indigenous representative gathered in Washington D.C, Oct 23 at the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to give testimony regarding
the need to secure and meaningfully protect sacred sites and
landscapes, including San Francisco Peaks. Mount Taylor, and the
recent land exchange and proposed copper mining at Oak Flat.
Those testifying are Leonard Gorman Executive Director, Navajo Nation
Human Rights Commission. Dr. Ora V. Marek Martinez, Historic
Preservation Officer, Navajo Nation. Vernelda Grant, Historic
Preservation Officer San Carlos Apache Nation, and David Martinez, 1st
Lt. Governor, The Pueblo of Laguna.
The testimony highlighted current inadequacies within the legal
framework of the United States in protecting indigenous sacred sites
particularly those located off lands beyond the jurisdiction of Indian
Nations.
The thematic hearing was titled: Impact of extractive industries on
sacred places of indigenous peoples in the United States Hearing,
156th ordinary period of sessions.
It is the reason we don’t stay home.
Watch the videos from Apaches' Oak Flat, Sonora, Mexico, and the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, and read more
at Censored News
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Mohawk Nation News www.mohawknationnews.com
For permission to repost this article, contact brendanorrell@gmail.com
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From: David Amos
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:55:46 -0700
Subject: Attn Brenda Norrell Perhaps we should talk ASAP My phone
number is 902 800 0369 Whats yours?
To: brendanorrell@gmail.com, indigenousaction@gmail.com
Cc: David Amos
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2014/11/most-censored-indian-country-nov-2014
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.ca/
About Brenda Norrell
Biography:
Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 32
years. She is publisher of Censored News, focusing on Indigenous
Peoples, human rights and the US border. Censored News was created
after Norrell was censored, then terminated, by Indian Country Today
after serving as a longtime staff reporter. Now censored by the
mainstream media, she previously was a staff reporter at numerous
American Indian newspapers and a stringer for AP, USA Today and
others. She lived on the Navajo Nation for 18 years, and then traveled
with the Zapatistas. She covered the climate summits in Cochabamba,
Bolivia, and Cancun, Mexico, in 2010.
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From: David Amos
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:46:09 -0700
Subject: Mr Baconfat you must be in Calgary then However I spoke on
the phone (from Alberta) to one of Danielle Smith's assistants in High
River (403) 652-7100 If you doubt me why not give her a call and
mention my name
To: sunrayzulu
emily.woods@gov.ab.ca, lgunter
David.Dorward@assembly.ab.ca, "Raj.Sherman"
Danielle Smith
bluelightning 03
Canning
"Bernard.Valcourt.a1"
oldmaison
greg.clark@albertaparty.ca, edmonton.goldbar@assembly.ab.ca,
david.dear@gov.ab.ca, martin.dupuis@gov.ab.ca, tracy.balash@gov.ab.ca,
cynthia dunnigan
radical
"roger.l.brown"
ddarrow
Cc: ricktf@bloodtribe.org, brendanorell@gmail.com, bbachrach
"JAG.Minister"
Scroll down to review tales told by two very different Tailfeathers of
the Blood Tribe and a tape of some interesting mobsters that Leonard
Peltier's former lawyer Barry Bachrach and his friends in the FBI are
well aware of
BTW mr Baconfat I also called Chief Charles Weasel Head's people and
the mindlless beancounter David Dorward in Edmonton Goldbar as well.
Your Zionist hero Stevey Boy Harper knows why.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/07/14/prime-minister-stephen-harper-blood-tribe-honorary-chief-42878
"Harper’s new Blackfoot name is Chief Speaker because he “speaks as
the chief,” Chief Weasel Head told the Canadian Press. “His words are
words that come from his position.”
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/node/21696
http://www.bloodtribe.org/content/treaty-7-grand-chief-charles-weasel-head-presentation-prime-minister-harper
http://www.bloodtribe.org/content/communications
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/07/14/prime-minister-stephen-harper-blood-tribe-honorary-chief-42878
http://www.idlenomore.ca/_the_right_thing_to_do
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.ca/2014/11/aim-panel-on-racist-mascots-and-genocide.html
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.ca/2011/09/elle-maija-tailfeathers-blood-nation.html
http://elle-maija-tailfeathers.com/
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2014/07/yo-stevey-boy-harper-your-number-one.html
http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/wiretap-tapes-impeach-bush.html
http://www.archive.org/details/PoliceSurveilanceWiretapTape139
FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
Senator Arlen Specter
United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Mr. Specter:
I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
raised in the attached letter.
Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes.
I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
Very truly yours,
Barry A. Bachrach
Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
http://50states.ning.com/video/rcmp-sussex-new-brunswick
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From: BARRY WINTERS
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:06:42 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: Well I called Danielle Smith's offices AGAIN Mr Baconfat
Nobody is working in Edmonton today and Smith is in Calgary Her people
claim to have never heard of you but they certainly remember me
To: David Amos
"Yo" little David, I didn't call Danielle Smith's offices in Edmonton.
I spoke to Danielle Smith...who did you talk to?
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From: "David Amos"
To: "sunrayzulu"
"emily woods"
"joshua.skurnik"
Dorward"
"Danielle Smith"
"bluelightning 03"
Canning"
"Bernard.Valcourt.a1"
"oldmaison"
"ppalmater"
"tracy balash"
"radical"
"roger.l.brown"
"ddarrow"
Cc: "highwood"
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 11:44:45 AM
Subject: Well I called Danielle Smith's offices AGAIN Mr Baconfat
Nobody is working in Edmonton today and Smith is in Calgary Her people
claim to have never heard of you but they certainly remember me
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2013/09/re-high-water-ab-mcbride-bc-and-fat.html
https://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_contact&rnumber=63&leg=28
Legislature Office
501 Legislature Annex
9718 107 Street
Edmonton, AB
Canada T5K 1E4
Phone: (780) 643-9110
Fax: (780) 638-3506
Okotoks
Unit 5, 49 Elizabeth Street
Box 568 Main
Okotoks, AB
Canada T1S 1A7
Phone: (403) 995-5488
Fax: (403) 995-5490
highwood@assembly.ab.ca
High River
#4, 28 12th Avenue S.E.
High River, AB
Canada T1V 1T2
Phone: (403) 652-7100
Fax: (403) 652-7757
highwood@assembly.ab.ca
On 11/28/14, David Amos
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: BARRY WINTERS
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:17:53 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: Re: At least the evil Mr Baconfat proves to us all that the
> RCMP work for Zionists rather than all the Canadian Citizens who pay
> their wages when Sections 300 & 319 do not apply to your buddy EH Mr
> Harper?
> To: David Amos
>
> "Yo," little David! The "ethical people," at Safeway, Mark's
> throughout Edmonton, the Edmonton Police Service, Teddy's Bar and
> Grill, and cyber-space generally are laughing at you. People regard
> you as a pathetic sick joke, a semi-illiterate troll and goof. I just
> told Danielle Smith your e mails are coming from Halifax . She said
> you certainly seemed a "little off!"
>
> "Ethical people" don't listen to you little David...because NO ONE
> listens to you.
>
> Cheers numbnuts!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Amos"
> To: "sunrayzulu"
> "emily woods"
> "joshua.skurnik"
> Dorward"
>
>
>
>
> "Danielle Smith"
>
> "bluelightning 03"
>
> Canning"
> "Bernard.Valcourt.a1"
>
> "oldmaison"
> "ppalmater"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "tracy balash"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "radical"
>
> "roger.l.brown"
>
> "ddarrow"
>
> Cc: "David Amos"
>
>
>
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 10:53:44 AM
> Subject: At least the evil Mr Baconfat proves to us all that the RCMP
> work for Zionists rather than all the Canadian Citizens who pay their
> wages when Sections 300 & 319 do not apply to your buddy EH Mr Harper?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: BARRY WINTERS
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:17:00 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: Re: Yo Terry Wilson of the RCMP would you please explain to
> us all real slow ad in writng as to why Section 319 does not apply to
> your Zionist buddy Mr Baconfat?
> To: David Amos
>
> "Yo" Little uneducated and illiterate David Amos! Speaking of
> "Zionism," here's some for you fresh, hot off the "presses."
>
> https://baconfatreport.wordpress.com/2014/11/28/the-only-good-palestinian-is-a-dead-one/
>
> November 28, 2014
> The Only “Good Palestinian” Is A Dead One
>
> What some call “palestinians,” or “palestinian society” is really a
> sub-set or sub-species of Arab or and Islamic sect. They are
> primitive, backward, uneducated and have made little or no
> contribution to human-kind. There are 24 Arab states in the Middle
> East, and I see no need for a twenty-fifth. Whilst these is some
> umbrage in the world to the Israelis describing or proclaiming Israel
> as a Jewish State, or the Jewish State, no one seems to mind that
> there are 54 proclaimed Islamic States using Sharia Law as their basis
> for jurisprudence on the planet. It all seems rather contrived and
> hypocritical. To wit:
>
> Middle East
>
> Hamas, Inc.
>
> Gazans suffer, while their leaders continue to pile up the loot
>
> By Moshe Elad|November 18, 2014
>
> The idea that hardline Hamas political leaders like Mousa Abu Marzook
> and Khaled Meshal who order violence in the name of jihad are also
> canny businessmen who have assembled financial empires that would be
> the envy of pinstriped businessmen in London, Paris, or New York may
> strike most readers as unfamiliar, or perhaps as a form of science
> fiction or propaganda. But in the Middle East, otherworldly religious
> or political rhetoric and earthly profits do not necessarily
> contradict each other. In fact, they often go hand in hand.
>
> Nor is the combination of political and military roles with business
> empires unique to Hamas, or to other Islamist organizations. When I
> started my job as the Israeli Military Governor of Tyre district
> during the first Lebanese war and asked to meet with the local police
> chief, I was told, “He is available only during the morning hours. In
> the afternoons he takes care of his businesses.” “Businesses?” I
> wondered. “Yes,” said my informant, “he has a supermarket chain.”
>
> During my two years in Lebanon I learned that almost every local
> office-holder and officer, whether in the public sector, police, or
> army, owned a private business. The police commander in question, for
> example, recommended that citizens who approach the police for help
> should purchase food from his private stores. Because Western values
> such as conflict of interests, transparency, and public efficiency are
> less recognized and less respected in this part of the world, most
> political leaders in the Middle East see public office as a route to
> making a fortune, and most of their constituents accept this
> behavior—with the hope of sharing in even a small part of the leader’s
> wealth.
>
> In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the situation is quite similar to the
> one I found in Lebanon. The race to obtain powerful positions in the
> Palestinian Authority began in 1994, with the implementation of the
> Oslo Accords. The government that emerged from that process looks more
> or less like that of most Arab regimes: It is centralized and corrupt,
> it lacks effectiveness, bribery plays a very important role in
> society, and nepotism is prevalent, with just few families or
> relatives benefiting from state monopolies on basic services and
> commodities.
>
> The Palestinian Liberation Organization runs the PA through its main
> political party, Fatah, with a generous budget donated by the
> international community. Between 1995 and 2005 the PA, which had a
> population of 4 million people, has received $8 billion for building
> its industrial infrastructure to create jobs, improve its people’s
> lives, and establish public institutions. Unfortunately, none of those
> projects shows evidence of having been implemented. Most of the funds
> went to private pockets, and the rest helped PA leaders to recruit
> more militia members. Monopolies of oil, gas, food, cigarettes, and
> cell phones have been granted to the prime minister’s family and to a
> few government ministers and local security officers. Those who were
> deprived of their chance to feed at the public trough have not
> remained quiet. A year ago, Mohammad Dahlan who used to be a senior
> security Fatah officer in Gaza, filed an international lawsuit against
> President Abu-Mazen, claiming Abbas has stolen over $1 billion from
> the Palestinian budget.
>
> * * *
>
> Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist movement, which was
> established toward the end of 1987, did not share in the international
> largesse granted to the PA. The resistance movement promoted the
> liberation of Palestine by force and at the same time joined the
> global jihad, as other Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations
> did. As a result, Hamas has developed its own fundraising mechanisms,
> mainly based on donations and contributions of Muslim believers and
> pilgrims from countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar.
> Hamas’ vicious terrorist attacks that took place in the mid 1990s
> helped the organization gain more credit as the Palestinians’ chief
> defender and protector and surely enhanced its revenues, which mainly
> came in the form of direct cash contributions. The legitimate channel
> for receiving these funds was the Zakat box which exists in every
> single Waqf (sacred property) office in the West Bank and Gaza. The PA
> was not allowed to touch or interfere in these Islamic institutions
> except by using force.
>
> By June 2007 after Hamas took over the GS through a violent coup, more
> significant amounts of money began to arrive from the same Islamic
> countries, reflecting the donors’ desire that Gaza should be run
> according to Islamic Shari’a law. A huge fundraising campaign was also
> launched in Western countries, mainly the United States and Europe,
> which raised hundreds of millions of dollars, which passed through the
> hands of Dr. Mousa Abu Marzook, the chair of the Hamas political
> bureau chair at that time. According to a Texas Federal court record
> from 2003, Abu Marzook was convicted of illegal funds transfer to
> every single district in the West Bank, from Jenin in the north to
> Hebron in the south. Beginning in the 1990s and during every fiscal
> year, he has transferred millions of dollars, claiming that these
> funds were for welfare and relief projects, while in fact they have
> been used to compensate suicide bombers’ families and to rehabilitate
> wounded and invalid terrorists. As a result of these large, repeated
> cash transfers, over many years, Abu Marzook also came to personally
> control large assets and investments, which according to my research
> total over $2 billion.
>
> Hamas current chair Khaled Meshal began to control the movement’s
> funds right after the arrest of Abu Marzook in the United States in
> 1995. During the two years that Abu Marzook was behind barbed wire,
> Meshal was appointed as Hamas’ chair of political bureau, a position
> that put him in sole control of Hamas’ treasury. Until the release of
> Abu Marzook from prison in 1997, Meshal personally reached out to as
> many Arab and Muslim leaders as possible in order to enhance the
> organization’s budget.
>
> During his time in Damascus, where he spent 13 years (1999 to 2012),
> Meshal established new funding channels, which have led to his
> accumulation of a fortune on a par with that of Abu Marzook. Most of
> Meshal’s capital has been invested in Egyptian and Gulf states banks,
> and some of them are involved in real-estate projects. Meshal owns
> Fadil, a real-estate firm located in Doha, Qatar, which recently built
> four residential towers, a 20-story mall and other sites, all of which
> are registered in the names of members of his family.
>
> Another way to become rich in the Gaza strip after the 2007 coup—a
> method used mainly by Hamas field commanders (Ez A-din al Qassam
> Brigades)—was smuggling, which was accomplished through a network of
> tunnels built to evade Israeli and Egyptian border controls. Hamas PM
> Ismail Haniyeh and his ministers in Gaza took advantage of this
> economic tool and began to forcefully control it, exactly like the
> Mafia. From this time on, each Hamas district’s commander has profited
> from the networks in his own sector as though they were his own
> property, maintaining full control over goods and merchandise crossing
> through the district’s tunnels. Food products, meat and poultry,
> cement and concrete, furniture, oil, gasoline, and medical items were
> all subject to large taxes. A smuggled car’s tax, for example, was
> $1,000 plus 25 percent of its value while 100 to 200 cars were
> smuggled daily. The “importer” had to pay 75 shekels (around $20) for
> each ton of cement (400 tons a day), 120 shekels for each ton (2,000
> pounds) of wood (500 tons a day), 2 shekels for each smuggled liter
> (2.64 gallons) of diesel fuel (6,000 liters a day), and 0.75 shekels
> for each liter of gas (6,000 liters a day). On the Egyptian side of
> the tunnel, the man responsible for the “project” was Khirat
> el-Shater, a prominent leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who helped
> finance the establishment of the joint ventures and was a full partner
> for revenues.
>
> Raed al Atar, a prominent Hamas leader from Rafah, has made tens of
> millions of dollars from this smuggling project. Al Atar has a special
> centralized way to control the flow of merchandise and funds through
> “his” tunnels, while taking care of every single item.
>
> Palestinian economists estimate that the number of Palestinians who
> earned more than $1 million from the tunnels’ economy ranges from
> 1,000 to 1,200 individuals. However, the number of Gaza inhabitants
> who may be identified as “millionaires,” is about half that. We should
> remember also that almost $1 billion in cash has been smuggled through
> the tunnels annually, a part of which was deducted and paid to the
> district‘s commander as a sort of “income tax.” One more source of
> illegal income was the properties of former Gush Katif (former Israeli
> settlements in the Gaza Strip), whose lands were sold to Palestinian
> real-estate agencies and some directly to builders who were waiting to
> start new housing projects. The funds received by the buyers went into
> the private pockets of Hamas’ leaders.
>
> Another income source in Gaza is Islamic fundraising. Hamas’ leaders
> have received huge amounts of donations and contributions from Iran,
> Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and from other Gulf States. These funds were
> donated in favor of the Muqawama, the Islamic resistance, whose aims
> are twofold: one, against Israel as a political enemy and the second,
> against the Shia Islam states as a religious enemy. Generally, the
> transfer of funds from Arab countries, unlike from European or U.S.
> donors, are hard to follow: Funds not designated for specific
> projects, and that came under the title of “general purposes,” were
> most likely confiscated by Hamas’ leaders.
>
> From information that was released lately, Qatar has transferred in
> February 2013 to “Gaza Strip inhabitants” $250 million, most of which
> has not arrived to the region. Later, after Mohammad Morsi’s fall in
> Egypt, by July 2013 Qatar has transferred another amount of $350
> million and later on another $100 million donation was received. In
> these cases, the money was received by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail
> Haniyeh. Originally a refugee from Al Shati refugee camp near Gaza,
> Haniyah today is worth at least $4 million—and some portion of the
> funds he received have been used to buy land and houses which are
> registered in the names of his family members. Other Hamas ministers
> and government officials have also received or have stolen money from
> the “public treasury” and built fancy houses or large businesses
> inside and outside Gaza.
>
> Given the fact that much this information is visible to every resident
> of Gaza, who know exactly where and how the leaders of Hamas live, it
> is fair to ask why the public remains silent and indifferent. Pictures
> released during Protective Edge showed the contrast between luxurious
> the life led by Meshal and Abu Marzook and the lives of the
> impoverished people of Gaza. Yet it is very rare that a Palestinian
> leader is ever attacked from “inside the house”: According to
> Palestinian tradition, the leader suffers enough from the Israeli
> occupier, and therefore everyone should support the leader, resist,
> fight back, and move away from criticizing him, no matter what he does
> or doesn’t do. As a result, polls showed that over 60 percent of Gaza
> residents denounced corruption, but only a few of them were ready to
> take action. Another reason why public criticism may be rare is that
> the consequences can be severe: During Protective Edge, 20 people were
> shot in public in Gaza after summary trials in which they were accused
> of being “collaborators with the enemy.” Needless to say, the precise
> nature of their “collaboration” was murky. Gazans who did demonstrate
> against the Hamas leadership were also beaten, shot, and in some
> cases, executed. Corruption in the Palestinian territories still
> prevails.
>
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