Saturday, March 7, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Claudia Rosett: Can We Give To Gaza Without Giving To Hamas? - 'New U.S. and U.N. money for Palestine goes into a black hole...As for the financial safeguards -- somewhere in Gaza, or maybe Damascus or Tehran, members of Hamas must be smiling. As long as Gaza is controlled by Hamas, any aid funneled into the enclave is one dollar less that Hamas might be impelled to spend on upkeep of its turf, and one dollar more available for terrorist activities. On the matter of how exactly the "safeguards" will work, the State Department has been stunningly vague...'
