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'G8 aid to PA will encourage terror'
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff

July 13th, 2005

Billions of dollars promised to the Palestinian Authority by the leaders of the world's eight wealthiest nations will only encourage Islamic terrorism, the Zionist Organization of America warned Tuesday.

Following last week's terrorist assault on central London, the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland decided to transfer a combined $9 billion to the PA's coffers over the next three years.

ZOA President Morton Klein said he was “appalled by the G8 plan to fund the PA, a regime that has refused to dismantle and disarm the terrorists, end incitement, or arrest terrorists.”

Klein reminded Americans, whose tax dollars will make up much of the promised aid, that “only last week, the PA invited Hamas to be part of their regime and asked the Palestinian terror chiefs to move from Syria to Gaza after Israel leaves.”

“All the nations of the world should stop rewarding any regime that supports or promotes terrorism, and that includes the PA,” Klein insisted. “The PA must be made to understand that there are consequences to enacting policies that promote radical Islamic terrorism.”

Israeli analyst Uzi Arad, who was an aide to former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, said the intended G8 payment amounted to “protection money” in an effort to stave off future attacks against the West.

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said the decision sent a clear and “powerful

message to terrorists and potential terrorists that terrorism works.”

“There were no grants announced to the Tibetans” at the G8, Dershowitz pointed out, despite their having been “brutally occupied for a very long time.”

But then, “the Tibetans have not resorted to terrorism.”

“The primary cause of terrorism is not occupation, assimilation or desperation,” the professor explained. “If it was, the Tibetans would be the greatest terrorists...”

Dershowitz concluded that “terrorism will continue as long as potential terrorists believe they will benefit from using that tactic.”

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