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Well, maybe that wasn’t exactly their intention, but:

A long-wanted terrorist chief arrested yesterday by Israeli forces was trained by the U.S., served in a senior capacity on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ U.S.-backed security detail and was a ranking member of a team that received and distributed American arms shipments the past two years, WND has learned.

Khaled Shawish, an officer in Abbas’ Force 17 presidential guards, was captured by undercover Israeli police forces following scores of shooting attacks he is suspected of carrying out.

Shawish doubles as the Ramallah chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group. He previously boasted of involvement in a West Bank shooting attack in December 2000 that killed Israeli ultranationalist leader Benjamin Kahane [son of Rabbi Meir Kahane –ed] and Kahane’s wife, Talya. — WND

I cannot understand why the Palestinian Fatah faction, which has a ‘military’ (i.e., terrorist) wing no less murderous than that of Hamas, is considered the ‘good guy’ by the US and Israel. The al-Aqsa Brigades have taken credit for numerous terror attacks, including the suicide bombing in Eilat this January. They often do so cooperatively with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as in the case of the Eilat bombing.

Anyway, weapons given to Fatah often end up hijacked by Hamas. And many members of the Fatah ‘security’ forces moonlight in Hamas and other terrorist militias.

But worse yet, money is now officially flowing directly to the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority:

With U.S. backing, donor funds have started flowing into an account controlled by Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad to pay partial government salaries, Palestinian and Western officials said on Monday.

Fayyad was expected to receive enough money through the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) account to pay government workers, including members of the security forces, at least half of their normal monthly wages later this week…

U.S. officials said the objective of providing the assurances was to ensure that banks felt comfortable transferring funds to the PLO and, in turn, to strengthen Palestinians like Fayyad and Abbas who favour a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict. — Reuters

Abbas and Fayyad provide the fig leaf, but Hamas is in control and Hamas now has more financial resources than ever before.

What do we expect them to do with it?

Technorati Tags: Israel, Fatah, Hamas, Shawish

Recently a friend of mine responded to my post “396 Fresno residents support suicide bombers“. This is what she said:

Maybe one of the questions that should be posed to those who support suicide bombings is whether they would send their children on such a mission. Someone should put together a role play showing the process and have the kids and their parents go through it. I suspect you wouldn’t get many takers. It’s like any kind of war – send the kids of others.

I don’t think so. Here is a video, courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch, which shows a mother saying goodbye to her 17-year old son, wishing him Godspeed as it were, as he leaves on his suicide mission. Here is a little about the woman, known as Umm Nidal, and her son’s mission:

Maryam Mohammad Yousif Farhat (Arabic: مريم محمد يوسف فرحات) (or Mariam Farahat; born in 1950), popularly known as Umm Nidal, “the mother of Nidal” or “the mother of struggle”, is one of Hamas’ most popular candidates elected in the Palestinian legislative election, 2006. She sent three of her six sons on Hamas suicide missions against Israel.

She attracted public attention after being filmed joyously preparing and advising her 17-year old son Muhammad Farhat for his March 2002 suicide attack against Israeli civilians. After infiltrating the Gaza Strip former Jewish settlement of Atzmona, opening fire on the students and throwing hand grenades at the school where they were studying, killing five teenagers and wounding 23 others, he was shot dead. Upon hearing of her son’s death, she celebrated proclaiming “Allahu Akbar!” and giving out boxes of halva and chocolates. — Wikipedia

With all due respect, my friend doesn’t know the creatures she’s dealing with.

Technorati Tags: Umm Nidal, Hamas, terrorism

Here is a video showing the way the Palestinians educate their children for peace. It was originally on Youtube, but was so horrifying to civilized people that it was deleted. Thanks to the intrepid bloggers at Little Green Footballs, there is a copy!

No, there’s no violence or anything. If you haven’t seen this yet, you must watch it.

Click to watch the Hamas Kindergarten video.

Technorati Tags: Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism