An arm of the World Bank is planning to lend $1.8 million to a West Bank company whose newspaper has reportedly run columns supporting violence against Israel. The Al-Ayyam newspaper, which is owned by a Jordanian businessman who lives in Saudi Arabia, has also run columns calling the United States “Satan” and an “evil empire.”
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