By Andrew L. Jaffee

Despite that fact that Palestinian factions are busy killing each other — and plenty of civilian bystanders — and the fact that the Hamas-led government will not renounce its plan for extermination of Israel’s Jews, it looks like Europe and the U.S. will provide aid money to the Palestinians after all. What happened? Just last month, the EU and U.S. promised to cut the funding. At least Canada’s new government is not joining in on this policy reversal. Ottawa cut its aid to and relations with the Palestinian government on March 30, becoming the first Western government to do so (O Canada!).

And just what have Palestinian’s done to deserve renewed funding? On April 17,

A Palestinian suicide bomber carried out the deadliest attack on Israel in almost two years on Monday when he detonated his explosives at a falafel restaurant in Tel Aviv — an act that Hamas, which leads the new Palestinian government, called legitimate.

Hamas calls a homicide bombing “legitimate,” so they get funding? Never mind the fact that Hamas refuses to recognize Israel and remains committed to the destruction of the Jewish state. And all the internecine Palestinian violence?

Intense rivalries have been building between the two factions since Hamas defeated Fatah in the elections.

In the latest violence, at least nine people were hurt, among them five schoolchildren, in a clash between Hamas and Fatah members in Gaza City early on Tuesday.

Later, Hamas gunmen attacked the funeral procession of a Fatah member killed during fighting on Monday.

The attack left two Fatah members wounded.

A day earlier, three people were killed in clashes between the two groups near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.

No matter how much lipstick you put on the pig, terrorist chaos is terrorist chaos. But that has not affected decision making for Palestinian funding:

The EU, UN, Russia and the US said they would set up a “temporary international mechanism” to channel the money for an initial three-month period.

Three months will become six months, six months will become a year, etc. Many put lipstick on the Arafat pig via Oslo, “gave peace a chance,” and Israel was rewarded with the “most sustained wave of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israeli history.”

A new definition for the term “throwing money at the problem” just may be in order.

Today’s feature: Immigration: U.S. Border Patrol Undermining the Minuteman

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Related: Europe, Palestinians, Peace Process, United States

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