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To: Yehuda
“Look, I would like to think with your extra-ordinary (and some would say almost legendary lineage) that you really do mean well, but I have to tell you, Abbas, the one you have put all your hopes on, is gleefully sleeping with your worst enemy and has given you FBJTD (fooled by jihadi transmission disease).”

Well, three generations of knights in my family did participate in crusades to free Jerusalem from Muslim control...but I really have a very cynical view of Abbas.

I view Abbas as a typical PA kleptocrat who at the moment is getting the most money from the Quartet (US, EU, UN, Russia) for suppressing Hamas and other Islamists for the purpose of creating a semi-autonomous state which can receive $billions in additional funds just waiting to shower down if a peace deal is signed with Israel.

Remember that Hamas butchered Abbas’ PA security forces in Gaza and threatens to do the same to take over the West Bank.

The small payments to the families of jailed terrorists (if you look at the tiny amounts being paid per family) are a kind of “VA retirement” payment. I'd say the payment is just designed to keep down the smoldering resentment of fecund families the intent of which I suspect to reduce the sort of desperation that would increase the number of future Hamas volunteer.

I see no indication that Abbas is holding out this small stipend to the familes of prisoners as an enticement to future terrorist acts. Hamas is threatening to overthrow Abbas because he isn't allowing sufficiently frequent and vicious attacks in their view!

I do see a fight to the death between Abbas and Hamas over whether the PA plan for a secular accommodation with Israel on the best available terms will prevail (yes while preserving the greatest opportunity to crush Israel in the future if the US shield fails) or whether the Hamas view of an Islamist rejectionist missile and suicide attack future for the West Bank will prevail.

117 posted on 12/30/2009 7:39:11 AM PST by Seizethecarp
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