Palestinian follies

Here's an example, the goons of Pres. Assad of Syria went to the Palestinian camps, where they keep the Palestinians cooped up, and asked for "volunteers" to go to the Israeli border to celebrate Naksa Day (the day they were defeated on June 5, 1967). They paid several hundred dollars to each of them. So several thousand went. This made Assad happy because it was intended as a distraction from the uprisings and killings inside Syria, and no Syrians would go, they hate the Assad regime too much. The rent-a-crowd was bussed to the border and then told to climb down a steep slope and climb up the other side where the border was. But, the IDF was determined this time not to allow them to breach the border. So the crowd hunkered down in the big ditch that the IDF had conveniently dug for them, and whenever a few of them tried to climb out and reach the border they got shot at. The soldiers were under orders not to kill them, but to shoot them in the legs or wound them. The Syrians forgot to mention that there were minefields near the border that caused trhe death of about 10 protesters. The Syrians claimed that the IDF killed 22 people, but does anyone believe them? The IDF claimed only 2 were killed. However, the Syrians were nice, they returned the bodies in coffins to their families in the camps where they restrict the Palestinians. This enraged the Palestinians because they didn't expect that their sons would be killed in this little excursion for which they were paid a few dollars. So the Palestinians rioted, attacked the Syrian forces, and ransacked the PFLP offices that cooperates with the Syrian regime. So noone ended up happy except the IDF. Remember that, next time they try to persuade you to go out for a jaunt to the border.

Meanwhile, because of the threat by the Palestine Authority Government under Pres. Abbas to request recognition of its independence as a State at the September UN Assembly (63 years too late), US Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, Chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee, is preparing a bill to suspend all US aid to the UN. I wrote to her and suggested that she start with UNWRA, the Palestinians own UN organization, set up specially to support the Palestinian "refugees" and their descendents (until when?), thus perpetuating their conflict with Israel. If the UN wants genuinely to have a peace process, the first step is to close down this organization, that keeps the Palestinians in a state of dependence. Note that most of the funding (given independently of the main UN funding) comes from the US, your taxes at work! A lot of that money is spent by UNWRA in effect as anti-Israel propaganda. Note also that funding is fungible, so the funds given to UNWRA in Gaza frees money that Hamas would otherwise have to spend supporting the welfare of their population (who are not refugees outside Palestinian territory), which it can then use to buy rockets to fire at Israel.