New Tyrant, Same Convenient Payment Plan

So I see Mahmoud Abbas, the current leader of the Palestinian Authority, has codified payments to the families of murdering terrorist killers who blow up innocents in Israel. Apparently, if you're willing to strap on a bomb, it's no longer just for fun, it's also for profit. Abbas has guaranteed that those Palestinians who kill for the PA no longer need worry that Saddam Hussein isn't paying them anymore. The PA will pickup the check and cover the family and those living with the killer at the time he or she decides to blow themselves and as many innocents as possible up.

It's nice to see it's still business as usual within the territories of the West Bank and Gaza. I'm sure that Abbas' "moral authority" with the Western nations will not be eroded by this either. If nations like Germany and France, even the US, were willing to do business with a known and proven terrorist like Arafat, why will a little thing like subsidizing terror stop them?

This is yet further evidence in my eyes, though, that you cannot expect a nation like Israel, a nation besieged on all sides by its enemies, to negotiate with a rogue group of terrorists and terrorist sympathizers hanging like cancerous appendages on its borders. I have a lot of sympathy for the Palestinians living in dire poverty. I have sympathy for anyone stuck in that situation. But they are equal parts brainwashed and victims of their own choice of leaders. They allow themselves and their families to be sacrificed for an agenda of Arab nations that wouldn't give them a crust of rotted bread if they begged for it. Their leaders, willing puppets of this agenda, grow fat and wealthy off the misery of their people, like so many tyrants before them. And we're expected to negotiate with these types? We're expected to put pressure on Israel to cave in to the demands of these thugs? It would be laughable if not so tragic.

Now, don't get me wrong, Israel isn't perfect. They have a rogue Supreme Court that makes the US Supreme Court look downright ultra-conservative by comparison. Their democracy is flawed, their society perhaps not perfect. Is this reason enough to champion their eventual extermination, though? This cash for corpses scheme, though, is yet another cold dose of reality to throw in the face of those who perpetually cry for appeasement or who are retarded enough to blame Israel for all the trouble in the Middle East.