Friday - December 14, 2007
Why?
The Palestinians have shown themselves unable to govern. Unable to restrain militants. And unable to grab the freedom of nationhood when presented to them on a silver platter.
Years ago, in my youth, I thought, "if only" Israel would give the Palestinians the West Bank, they would jump at the chance of freedom, but 15 years have shown that ultimately, the only thing the Palestinians want is the destruction of the Jewish state. That isn't a road to peace and we should have nothing to do with the Palestinian drive to the sea.
Why then, are we giving the West Bank $500 million in aid? Talk about sending money down a rat hole.
The United States will pledge between $500 million and $600 million in aid to the Palestinians at a donors conference in Paris next week, two U.S. officials said on Friday.
The officials, who asked not to be named because the figure has not been announced, could not say if the sum would include the roughly $400 million that U.S. President George W. Bush has already requested from the U.S. Congress for the Palestinians this year.
The money, which is to be announced on Monday the conference hosted by France, aims to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas against Hamas Islamists as he embarks on the first Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in seven years.
The one-day meeting is the financial sequel to last month's U.S.-sponsored Annapolis conference which launched formal peace talks aiming to brokering a deal on Palestinian statehood before Bush leaves office in January 2009.
Author: The Machiavellian
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