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June 19, 2007
The head of a pro-Israel group says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's
decision to lift a 15-month embargo on financial aid to the Palestinian
government of Mahmoud Abbas is "another piece of foolishness" from the Bush
administration
Secretary Rice is calling on Congress to rework a previous $86 million aid request for Abbas' Fatah security forces. She says the U.S. will hand out an additional $40 million to the United Nations to help Palestinians living in Gaza, which has been taken over by the terror group Hamas.
Herb Zweibon, chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel, says Rice and President Bush are "foolish" to suggest the U.S. is helping further some sort of peace process. It is important, he says, to remember that Fatah is the organization of the late Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat.
"How many terror events do we have to recall in order to remember that Fatah is a terrorist organization?" he asks. "That Hamas may be more fundamental and more clear in its terror tactics doesn't change the fact that Fatah is not a friend of the West."
Zweibon notes that when Hamas took control of Fatah, its weapons, equipment and "the rest of the goodies" that were in Gaza, the Islamic fundamentalist group seized weaponry and equipment that was supplied by the U.S. and Israel. The result, he says, is that Gaza has become "a playground for terror activity" -- and he argues there is little to prevent the Islamic fundamentalists from also taking control of Judea and Samaria.