Western Intelligence Estimates of PLO Assets
In 1990, the U.S. government estimated that a 5 percent tax charged to every Palestinian working in an Arab country had generated PLO assets ranging from $8 to $14 billion - revenues above and beyond international contributions. In 1993, just prior to the signing of the Oslo accord, the British National Criminal Intelligence Service reported that the PLO generated a considerable portion of its budget from "extortion, payoffs, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, etc." 6 Immediately after the signing of the Oslo agreement, the Palestinians received an additional $3 billion from the U.S. and the international donor community. A year later, a British intelligence report stated that Yasser Arafat controlled assets worth $10 billion and that the PLO had an annual budget of $2 billion. 7
Maybe, just maybe the PLO could have BOUGHT a homeland for it's displaced people , if it's corrupt leaders hadn't stolen and hidden the money donated for it's people. Keep the war going and keep stealing the money from it's people , that's the game plan. Spend a million dollars to kill one Jew in Israel, while watching it's poor children suffer malnourishment and disease. Makes perfect sense to a Muslim , I guess.
Fact is, none of the Arab countries want Palestinians - they are labeled troublemakers. Kuwait kicked 100,000 of them out of it's country for supporting Saddam in the Gulf wars.