March 7th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
AP reports that the World Bank gave the Palestinian Authority $42 million to cover a shortfall caused by nations rescinding their donations after the Palestinians elected Hamas into their government.
A World Bank statement said the money was to help the authority meet immediate financing needs and to “avoid suspension of vital basic services to the Palestinian population.”
Well perhaps the needed money could have come from the Palestinian demolitions budget! Seriously, what better lesson could they have learned, than to either admit that Israel has a right to exist or suffer some “suspension of vital basic services”?
Of course I’m a little puzzled, since the head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, while Deputy Secretary of Defense, said the following in 2002:
To those who champion the cause of an independent Palestine, we say this: Stopping terror is the most important thing you can do to serve the Palestinian cause. (Applause.) Those who blow themselves up to deliberately destroy innocent life are not suicide bombers — they are killers. (Applause. Cheers.) As President Bush has said, they are not martyrs — they are murderers. (Applause. Cheers.) Those who fill the minds of children with hate, who use the bodies of children as weapons, who exploit the deaths of the young to further their own power have as their goal the destruction of peace and freedom. (Source: DOD)
Perhaps this decision didn’t make it all the way up the food chain. We should be rewarding good behavior, rather than sustaining bad behavior in hopes of getting good behavior later.
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