Comments on: Hamas roundup http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/31/679 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: LynnB http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/31/679/comment-page-1#comment-2278 LynnB Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:50:37 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=679#comment-2278 On the brighter side (?), the US and the EU combined gave the the PA, PLO and UNRWA over $1 billion last year alone. Iran may be raking in the dough from oil sales, but even without sanctions I doubt they have $1 billion a year to throw Hamas' way on top of their obligations to Hezbullah, Islamic Jihad ($110 million last year) and the Shiite insurgents in Iraq. On the brighter side (?), the US and the EU combined gave the the PA, PLO and UNRWA over $1 billion last year alone. Iran may be raking in the dough from oil sales, but even without sanctions I doubt they have $1 billion a year to throw Hamas’ way on top of their obligations to Hezbullah, Islamic Jihad ($110 million last year) and the Shiite insurgents in Iraq.

]]> By: Laurence Simon http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/31/679/comment-page-1#comment-2276 Laurence Simon Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:28:00 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=679#comment-2276 Bill just introduced in Congress to 86 the aid for PA, PLO, and UNRWA. Bill just introduced in Congress to 86 the aid for PA, PLO, and UNRWA.

]]> By: J. Lichty http://www.yourish.com/2006/01/31/679/comment-page-1#comment-2275 J. Lichty Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:00:45 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=679#comment-2275 Sharansky is of course correct, but apparently Bush only read the book jacket and skipped to the end. The key is that the Palestinians must be made to pay a price for their intransigence. So long as the World Community (TM) is going to keep bailing them out, they have no incentive to stop hating and killing, and in fact every incentive to keep doing so. When Scott McClellan gets up and says that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians after this landslide win, we are in for more apologetics and perpetuating the conflict at all costs. Sharansky is of course correct, but apparently Bush only read the book jacket and skipped to the end.

The key is that the Palestinians must be made to pay a price for their intransigence. So long as the World Community (TM) is going to keep bailing them out, they have no incentive to stop hating and killing, and in fact every incentive to keep doing so.

When Scott McClellan gets up and says that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians after this landslide win, we are in for more apologetics and perpetuating the conflict at all costs.

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