West debates: To fund Hamas or not?

US opposes aid, but EU, UN pocketbooks are open

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By Ryan Jones
May 09, 2006

Middle East power brokers met Tuesday to, in essence, discuss whether the need to keep Western handouts flowing to the utterly dependent Palestinians Arabs should trump the risk that those funds will, as in the past, be used to finance the terrorist mass murder of Israeli Jews.

The members of the self-styled "Middle East Quartet" are deeply divided on the issue of foreign financial aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, with the United States opposing it in almost any form, while the European Union and the United Nations insist they have no choice but to line Hamas' pockets to avert a humanitarian crisis.

The Quartet's fourth member, Russia, appears to have no problem funding the blood-soaked rulers of "Palestine" as a matter of normal policy.

Backing the EU-UN position, the World Bank warned Monday that the ban on foreign aid that has been in place since Hamas' electoral victory in January will soon result in the full financial collapse of the Palestinian Authority, by far the largest employer in the "Palestinian" territories.

That despite the fact the Palestinian Arabs have received more foreign aid per capita than any other nation over the past decade. The vast majority of that money is now known to have been siphoned off by Yasser Arafat, with much of it directly financing anti-Jewish terrorism.

Despite having openly backed Arafat, Washington is sticking to the letter of its own terror-funding law when it comes to Hamas. That law prevents the US government or any American non-governmental organizations from transfering funds to a recognized terror group.

According to reports, the Bush Administration has already blocked some $70 million in aid from reaching the PA, and has threatened to do everything in its power to prevent future planned transfers from nations such as France.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Arabs Tuesday continued doing everything possible to destroy their own society, humanitarian crisis or no.

At least nine Gazan Arabs, five of them children, were wounded in the latest round of fighting between Hamas and Fatah gunmen.

The Hamas government, like the Fatah regime before it, refuses to confiscate the arms of those who would use them against Jews, perpetuating the widespread arming of the Palestinian Arab public deemed illegal by international agreements.

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