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A Palestinian man who allegedly foiled a suicide attack inside Israel was killed in Ramallah on Monday by gunmen belonging to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party.

“The collaborator was executed after he confessed that he had been recruited by the Israeli authorities on December 17, 2002,” said a statement issued by the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing…

Last month a Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip, who allegedly passed on information to the Israeli security forces about Palestinian terrorist groups responsible for Kassam rocket attacks on Israel, was arrested by PA security forces loyal to Abbas…

The man, who has been accused of “collaboration” with the Shin Bet, has confessed and will be brought to trial soon on charges of “high treason,” the source said. If convicted, he will face the death penalty. — Jerusalem Post

Now, let’s see…this is the moderate faction to whom the US has just given $86 million.

Update [14 Feb 1642 PST]: The US Congress has frozen the funding, in view of the signing of the unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas. The money was to have been transferred in a few days. Damn, they were all going to get new SUV’s, too.

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What possible reason, for example, could there be for the Palestinian Authority, together with UNRWA and the Arab world, to maintain “refugee camps” in the Gaza Strip? Israel, after all, has withdrawn completely from Gaza, including dismantling settlements and even moving cemeteries. — Editorial in today’s Jerusalem Post

And why is the West paying for a special support system for Palestinian ‘refugees’, entirely different from that of any other refugees, which actively prevents their resettlement and promotes poverty, terrorism, and war?

Read the editorial here.

By Murray Farber

Murray Farber is a retired reporter and editor living in Fresno.

Reading Arthur Frommer’s online tour guide of Israel, you will find a reference to “the beautiful horticultural community of Nes Ammim, populated by Christians from many nations.” Say what? Christians?

Yes! And it is a wonderful story, as I learned when I visited there in 1974 and met Christine Pilon; but the community may now have a cloudy future in today’s troubled times. I still remember Mrs. Pilon’s deeply religious outlook as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church and her benevolent smile, as well as a lean attractive appearance that made her look less than her actual fifties. As we walked the grounds of this 275-acre collective community, (similar to a kibbutz) 15 miles north of Haifa, we were surrounded by magnificent flowers.

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