I suspect the Muslims think of all this money they are receiving as jizya. The Euros and others pledging the money probably think of it as buying off people who would otherwise strike them with terrorism. Paying Danegeld is really stupid, deluded, and naive, but then a lot of the people in the upper reaches of the EU, the State Department, and outfits like the Quai d’Orsay and the British Foreign Office seem to be really stupid, deluded, and naive. And the more I see of Condi, the more she looks that way too. To analogize the situation of the Palis with that of American blacks under Jim Crow is idiotic, and gets the situation entirely backwards. It’s the Palis who are analogous with the night riders, and have been for decades.

If the rest of the world really wanted to make progress on peace there they would cut off the Palestinian Arabs completely. If they had to work or starve they would not have time to pursue the genocide of the Jews they so fervently desire. If they wanted to succeed they would finally have to make peace with Israel. But nobody has the brains to adopt this, the one chance to bring peace without a bloodbath. The Muslims will bring on a bloodbath, and the people donating money to the PA and Hamas are just encouraging this. Most of the blood will be Arab, by the way.

And if they preferred to starve instead of work to feed themselves, having been accustomed to receiving welfare and not working? Hey, it’s no scales off my sitz-platz.