Fund the Palestinians? Bad Idea -Daniel PipesLavishing funds on Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to achieve peace has been a mainstay of Western, including Israeli, policy. The windfall keeps growing...this open spigot has counterproductive results and must be stopped.
Well, it's a bargain if it works, right? A few billion to end a dangerous, century-old conflict - it's actually a steal. But innovative research by Steven Stotsky finds that an influx of money to the Palestinians has had the opposite effect.
Stotsky compares budgetary support aid provided annually to the Palestinian Authority and the number of Palestinian homicides annually...[g]raphed together, the two figures show an uncanny echo:
The correlation is even clearer when the aid of one year is superimposed on the homicides of a year later:
Stotsky compares budgetary support aid provided annually to the Palestinian Authority and the number of Palestinian homicides annually...[g]raphed together, the two figures show an uncanny echo:
The correlation is even clearer when the aid of one year is superimposed on the homicides of a year later: 
[T]he more foreign aid, the more terrorism.
Rather than deprive their Palestinian enemies of resources, Israelis have been following Shimon Peres's mystical musings to empower them economically. As I wrote in 2001, this "is tantamount to sending the enemy resources while fighting is still under way - not a hugely bright idea."
Rather than further funding Palestinian bellicosity, Western states, starting with Israel, should cut off all funds to the Palestinian Authority.
[Jerusalem Post]
Rather than deprive their Palestinian enemies of resources, Israelis have been following Shimon Peres's mystical musings to empower them economically. As I wrote in 2001, this "is tantamount to sending the enemy resources while fighting is still under way - not a hugely bright idea."
Rather than further funding Palestinian bellicosity, Western states, starting with Israel, should cut off all funds to the Palestinian Authority.
[Jerusalem Post]
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Pledging Billions to the PA in Paris -Yisrael Ne'eman
PA police...are expected to patrol the streets between 6AM and midnight giving a feeling of security to the population and holding down crime. This is a limited success but the big issue they are not confronting - the Hamas/Jihad underground. This job is left to the Israeli army from midnight to 6AM when the PA police are confined to their barracks. The PA police refuse to confront the Hamas/Jihad for if they did they would surely lose. More than ever the West Bank population is pro-Hamas.
The Palestinian people want the Hamas/Jihad. They voted as such in elections and the latest opinion polls prove their preferences have not changed.
[Mideast: On Target]
What About the Palestinians' Record? -Diana West
Christmas came early to the Palestinian Authority when the "international community" decided to pledge billions in aid. Why? Did the PA end its terrorist ways? Stop state-sanctioned incitement against Israel and the West? Change Fatah's charter (forget about Hamas) calling for Israel's destruction?
We avert our collective eye from the goals of jihad. Instead, we see ourselves as villains - Israel for its existence, and Israel's supporters for, well, their support for Israel's existence.
(Washington Times)
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