Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Turning Abbas's logic on its head

Dec 26, 2007 21:32 Updated Dec 27, 2007 11:34

By DANIEL PIPES

Western financial aid to the Palestinians has, I showed last week, the perverse and counterintuitive effect of increasing their rate of homicides, including terrorist ones. This week, I offer two pieces of perhaps even stranger news about the many billions of dollars and record-shattering per-capita donations from the West: First, these have rendered the Palestinians poorer. Second, Palestinian impoverishment is a long-term positive development.
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