Reaction to Terrorism: PA Compensates Families--of Terrorists

That odd amalgam of incompetence, corruption, deceit, and murder that we have grown to know and despise in the Palestinian Arab leadership once again came to the fore today, with the murder of 5 Israelis in Netanya today.

While the world yawns though, Abbas was busy. Besides issuing a condemnation of the attack, Abbas decided to show his leadership and humanitarian side:

On the very day of a suicide bombing in Netanya, it has been reported that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority gave budgetary approval to assistance for the families of suicide bombers.

Each martyr's family will receive a monthly stipend of at least $250 from the PA.
The budget for families of martyrs, prisoners, and the wounded could reach $100 million a year out of an annual budget of over $1 billion. [Hebrew article]

Good to know that Abbas has money to burn. No word yet how Europe feels about their money being put to good use.

So while Iraq moves towards developing into a country with real freedoms, the erstwhile Palestinian state just continues to sink further into the filth of murder and the kind of degeneracy that the world sees fit to ignore--the kind that the US would not put up with in Iraq, as Meryl Yourish points out.

Secretary of State Rice, who apparently believes that the Palestinians controlled Gaza prior to 1967, also had a reaction to news of the bombing:

"Clearly there are people who wish to arrest the potential progress toward peace the Israelis and Palestinians are trying to make," she told reporters en route to Berlin.

"This does call upon the Palestinians to fight terror and to begin to deal with the terror organizations that are in their midst," added Rice, who called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli officials over the attack.

She called this week's violence "complicated" and said her security envoy General William Ward would talk to the sides "to see if we can try and keep matters on track."

In the face of the continued arbitrary murder of Israeli civilians by the people being assured of a state right next to their victims--with this going on all that Rice can do it spout boiler pablum.

What have Palestinians done to make peace? And who are the ones arresting the "potential progress toward peace", other than the Palestinians who are going around killing people?

And of course the violence is "complicated"--as if it takes a college degree and special training to sit back and do nothing to stop the murders, other than handcuff the victims.

So where does that leave us?

The US won't raise a finger to get justice for Americans killed by Palestinians, let alone for the Israelis.

The UN has established the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
but has no idea how to define terrorism.

Israel has leaders with all kinds of promise--and promises, until they get elected.

And the Palestinians?

Sorry, this is a family blog.

See also: Palestinian "Militants": Freedom Fighters, Terrorists or Just Murderers-for-Hire

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