So Now The Palestinians Are Allies of the US?

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.
Lord Palmerston

Have you seen this headline from AFP:

Bush Unveils Security Aid for Palestinian Ally

Ally? Palestinian Arabs are allies of the US?

Would those be the same Palestinian Arabs who killed John Branchizio, John Linde Jr., and Mark Parsons on October 15, 2003 when a US diplomatic convoy was blown up in Gaza?

And let's not forget Bill Clinton, who constantly played host to Yasser Arafat, whose planning and direction of the murder of U.S. ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel Jr., and his deputy chief of mission in Khartoum on March 1, 1973 was covered up by the State Department.

What possible definition of the word ally do the Palestinians fill for the US?

Is this incident from November typical of our Palestinian allies?

Four Palestinian armed groups on Sunday threatened to attack American targets in response to the US decision to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning last week's tragic incident in Beit Hanun.

The threat, the second of its kind in the past few days, was included in a statement issued by the Popular Resistance Committees, Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Abu Rish Brigades [another Fatah militia] and a hitherto unknown group calling itself Brigades of Tawhid [emphasis added]

And yet...

o Two days after a Fatah group under Abbas kills 3 Israelis, President Bush is giving Abbas $86 million.

o Every year around the anniversary of the murder of those 3 Americans by Palestinian terrorists, President Bush approves the six-month waiver of the 1987 Anti-Terrorism Act, and allows the PLO's offices in America to remain open.

If the Palestinians at this point in time are allies of the US, the definition and essence of what it means to be an ally has lost all meaning--and the US by its actions are partially to blame.

Update: Boker Tov, Boulder is maintaining an up-to-date list of Americans Killed or Injured by Palestinian Terrorists since 1993.

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