I propose that Israel should take all the taxes and duties it collects for the Palestinians, buy bombs and missiles with it, and deliver it toute-suite to PA/Hamas headquarters via "air mail." Every Pallie government building is now a legitimate target for destruction.
I certainly hope that the US cuts Hamas off from every dime, and that we can lean on the Europeans to do the same.
-ccm
The key to this whole thing is demanding that Hamas acknowledge Israels right to exist.....BUT Hamas' charter states that they basically exist to remove the Israeli's from the face of the earth.
Here's Hamas' problem: If their charter says they exist to eliminate Israel....then to recognize Israels right to exist eliminates Hamas' right to exist. Hamas can not recognize Israel without loosing face/ machismo or whatever you want to call it in the Arab world.
All this equates to the West's right to pull it's money out of the process.
The EU said they will continue to send the money as long as Hamas commites to keeping the peace negotiations going (Insert here "recognize Israels right to exist" because the Israeli's are going to demand it too), Condi rice has alrealy demanded that Hamas recognize Israel too.........times running out, Hamas is going to lose the money and now the Arab brothers of the world will have come up with a way to feed another nation instead of just a few palestinian herding station within their own borders while paying their own people off to prevent unrest at home.
It seems to me that the money pot is emptying out without the West's help. And the Arabs will have to make up for roughly a billion dollars of Western welfare to the palestinians just to stay even. This whole situation is going to taint Hamas and their armor won't be a shiny as it was at first appearence to the Palestinians that voted them in......they can't survive without their welfare money.....Just wait and watch.
It's such a b!tch to govern.....Schadenfraude!