By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 23, 2005

Nothing seems to disrupt the momentum towards the creation of a Palestinian state that supports martyrdom, not even repeated, clear statements by Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. “[Martyrs] receive their reward in the Garden of Eden,” he told a group of students returning to school in

Gaza on September 4. Those who died “according to a national order,” he said, — including suicide terrorists — brought about the withdrawal from Gaza.” These are fighting words, not those of a leader committed to living side by side in peace with Israel. That Abbas sounds just like the leaders of HAMAS and Islamic Jihad, has not stopped the Quartet — the United States, United Nations, Russia and the European Union — from giving $750 million to the PA by the end of 2005. Nor did it stop the Japanese from giving $49.7 million in aid to the Palestinians through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), nor the Canadians from giving $36.7 million in aid to the PA this year.

In addition, the European Union gave $342.8 million in 2005, on top of $272.35 million from independent European states. Continue reading “Caving in to Palestinian Pressure” →

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