Why is the U.S. Subsidizing Hamas?

Evelyn Gordon asks a good question: Why is the U.S. Subsidizing Hamas?

She describes how the funding that the US gives to Abbas is being used for building homes for terrorists released by Israel in exchange for Shalit (amounting to approx. $41million), providing $5,000 cash grants (=$5.1million) to them and paying monthly salaries to terrorists imprisoned by Israel (approx. $97 million a year)--

But all this, outrageous though it is, isn’t where the real money lies.
The real money, according to Store’s data, is what the PA spends on subsidizing Hamas. Specifically, the PA has spent more than $4 billion since 2008 – over half the international aid it received – to pay salaries for government employees in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and cover Gaza’s water and electricity bills.

Of course, paying teachers and doctors and providing water and electricity are worthy humanitarian goals. But money is fungible. Thus, by relieving the Hamas government of any need to provide such services itself, this international aid enables it to use the tax revenues it collects for less benign purposes, like acquiring the latest high-tech weapons looted from Libya.

In short, U.S. aid to the PA is effectively subsidizing Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. Is that really how Americans want to spend their hard-earned cash? [emphasis added]

One might have thought the media would have a field day with information like this.
Instead, the only ones having a field day are the terrorists.

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