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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas wary as West opens aid tap
2006-05-10
WARNING: Anyone with high blood pressure, heart conditions, or live ammo close at hand ought to stop reading right now.
Hamas signaled on Wednesday it still had problems accepting Western demands to recognize Israel and renounce violence, hours after international peace brokers agreed to temporarily send direct aid to the Palestinians.
Boo fucking hoo, losers.
"The Quartet have conditions. They aim to push the Palestinian government to make concessions that harm (Palestinian) rights and red lines and give the (Israeli) occupation legitimacy," Haniyeh told reporters in Gaza. Haniyeh did not elaborate but Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghazi Hamad said a statement would be would be issued later on Wednesday in response to the Quartet's decision. Senior Abbas aide Saeb Erekat told Reuters the Quartet's plan did not go far enough. Abbas appealed in a letter to the Quartet for funds to pay salaries, overdue since March, to 165,000 workers employed by the Palestinian Authority. "Besides the potential humanitarian crisis resulting from the general deterioration of the economic situation, inability to pay salaries might have deep destabilizing political and security implications," said Abbas.
Posted by:Seafarious

#10  Not a cent. It is not unreasonable to ask an aspiring country to renounce violence. It's a huge stretch of sanity to expect a democratic country to recognize it's neighbours and agree to live in peace. Democratic countries do so as a non-question.

If Pals want us to recognize their "democractic" government, they must accept these simple facts of life. Expecting your enemies to continue to pay for your lives, all you consume, the basics you need for life while accepting your death threats against them is NUTS. Think it out. Then get to work on creating a viable nation that takes care of itself and lives in peace with it's neighbours.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-05-10 19:54  

#9  hmm, how bout Jolo?
Posted by: newc   2006-05-10 17:37  

#8  Take the $400 million US aid and route it those more deserving, like Liberians, Congolese, Burmese and Haitians. Then there is my favorite Thai charity, Bombs For Buddhists.
Posted by: ed   2006-05-10 12:13  

#7  Images of civvies who are sick and starving as a direct consequence of their irresponsible decisions might well be an effective means of making sure they don't continue to make such decisions which threaten powerful world interests. The sooner the international community stops rewarding destructive behavior, the sooner muslims will come to realize that abandoning common sense is suicidal.
Posted by: Jick Spaque2703   2006-05-10 11:35  

#6  From this day forward, due to my love for humanity, I will be saving all my leftovers and sending them to the Paleos.

They should be good and rank by the time they get there.
Posted by: Mike N.   2006-05-10 11:27  

#5  Send 'em the cheese mountain.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-05-10 11:16  

#4  drop loaves of bread. Hamas will still starve the kiddies for photo ops for all your logic-challenged, hand-wringing, liberal friends who will, as usual, happily play the role of the dhimmi.
Posted by: 2b   2006-05-10 11:07  

#3  Give them aid in kind and let the press watch Hamas selling sacks of wheat to raise money to buy ammunition.
Posted by: RWV   2006-05-10 10:47  

#2  nah, this was to be expected. You want to make it so Hamas cant pay anyone, and so their authority collapses. You want to do that without, as far as possible, creating images of starving, sick, civvies. It may not be possible to thread that needle, but its not time to give up yet.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2006-05-10 09:39  

#1  Is very simple. You give money no questions asked, we take money do what we want. Is going on for years.
How hard to understand...INFIDEL?
Posted by: Hamass   2006-05-10 09:12  

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