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In his WP column, Michael Kelly doles out some important context to the recent news that an international aid effort has produced $3 billion in pledges of aid for the Palestinian Authority: the London Sunday Times recently reported that the PA once diverted $20 million earmarked for low-cost housing to luxury flats for Yasser Arafat's elite instead, and moreover, that the PA's own auditors found last year that nearly 40 percent of the annual budget of $323 million was wasted, looted or misused.
The gambit is called "pagejacking," and the one used to force the diverted surfer to click through numerous pages at the porn site before escaping is known as "mousetrapping."
In discussing a time when black men and women with an intellectual vocation were deprived of the chance to make a living through the pen, there is a case for looking in American black life for the places to which those thwarted thinkers diverted their energies.
Opponents say the interest earned on the trust funds belongs to the clients and cannot be diverted to charitable groups without compensating their clients or getting their permission.
In an editorial titled "No Choice But New Elections," the respected daily Ha'aretz said Levy was right to have resigned over the budget's stinginess on welfare, because "much funding has been diverted to settlements in the territories, to the ultra-Orthodox sector and to various political pressure groups."