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Lesson in Mideast: Terrorism pays
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The United States and European countries are falling all over themselves to
deal with and finance the new Hamas-Fatah coalition government in Palestine,
still under a supposed embargo on financial aid. This weaseling out of
official commitments will only encourage the terrorists of Hamas and make
renewed violence in the Middle East more likely.
Formation of the new Palestine coalition on March 17 was not accompanied
by acceptance of conditions set by the European Union, the United States,
Russia and the United Nations for dealings with a Palestinian
administration, namely, recognition of
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Israel's right to exist, renunciation of terror and acceptance of the
agreements with Israel negotiated by the Palestine Liberation Organization
in 1993. Instead, Hamas and Fatah adopted a program full of ambiguities (a
promise to "respect" the PLO agreements is not a promise to abide by them)
and rehashing impossible old demands such as the return of all the refugees
of 1948 and their descendants to Israel.
Even as it claims to want to continue its current "truce" with Israel,
Hamas is arming furiously in Gaza. One of its affiliates claimed
responsibility for a sniper attack on an Israeli utility worker near the
Gaza border. (The rocket attacks that continue against Israel are disowned
by Hamas.)
On her current trip to the Middle East, Secretary of State
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bdate> Condoleezza Rice is not refusing to talk with particular members of
the government if in the past they individually have recognized Israel's
right to exist. A U.S. consul already has met with the new nonparty
Palestinian finance minister, Salam Fayyad. Thus any incentive for good
behavior is removed - Hamas can arrange stooges to talk with the West.
As for finance, stories last week made clear that Palestinian
institutions received the usual amount of international aid in the year
following Hamas' election victory - it just wasn't lodged in government bank
accounts. This made the official embargo meaningless, which is exactly the
status of all the renewed pledges to uphold it.
If terrorists get what they want - in this case, de facto diplomatic
recognition as a legitimate part of a functioning government - without
having to meet clear, well-established conditions for it, they will believe
more strongly than ever that terror pays in the end.
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