Israel will not transfer tax revenue to PA

Israel will not transfer any tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority for four months, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday night. The move is one of a series of measures taken in response to the Palestinian Authority statehood bid at the United Nations General Assembly last month, according to the Israeli daily (The Jerusalem Post). Israel will not transfer a shekel of tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority for the next four months, withholding the funds to repay itself after advancing the PA money to pay salaries, and to pay the PA's large electric and water bills, the Israeli daily quoted Liberman as saying. "They can forget about seeing a single agora for the next four months," he said, referring to the NIS 400 million in tax and tariff revenue that Israel collects for the PA and normally passes on to it each month," Liberman said.