U.S. to send urgent aid to Palestinians

The United States agreed under pressure yesterday to the creation of a system to transfer funds for salaries and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians — a softening of its unbending effort to isolate Hamas….The announcements followed a daylong meeting of the Middle East Quartet — the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia — where several Arab leaders warned that the financial squeeze on the Palestinian Authority (PA) could lead to civil war.

Er…Condie?…George? This sort of thing HAS been tried a FEW times before in history. The record shows it doesn’t work out very well.

The Chief recommends that the White House needs to go back and read their Kipling:

DANE GELD – Rudyard Kipling
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It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
to call upon a neighbor and to say –
“We invaded you last night, we are quite prepared to fight,
unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
and the people who ask it explain,
That you’ve only to pay them the Dane-geld,
and then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation, to a rich and lazy nation,
to puff and look important and to say –
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you,
we will therefore pay you cash to go away.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
and we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld,
you never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
for fear they should succumb and go astray!
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
you will find it better policy to say –

“We never pay ANY-one Dane-geld.
No matter how trifling the cost;
for the end of that game is oppression and shame,
and the nation that plays it is lost!”

Nothing has happened in the last 1100 years (at least!) to change the truth of this. It’s even worse when the “Danes” say in advance that they aren’t even going to be TEMPORARILY bought off:

Today, hours after the agreement to channel direct aid to the Palestinians, Hamas signaled it still had problems accepting Western demands on Israel. “The Quartet have conditions. They aim to push the Palestinian government to make concessions that harm [Palestinian] rights and red lines and give the [Israeli] occupation legitimacy,” said Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

So…this leaves us right back where we were the day before yesterday, except that the US taxpayer foots the bill for the Ham-ass Islamofascists to consolidate their position economically – and this is supposed to be a rational foriegn policy?

There must be something in the water in D.C.!