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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Yassar Arafat is a thief and a thug. Here's a tidbit from The Best of the Web Today:

Yasser Arafat may be a terrorist and a thug, but at least he's a good provider--to his wife, that is, not to the impoverished people he ostensibly leads. Ha'aretz says CBS's "60 Minutes" will report this weekend that "Arafat transfers $100,000 a month from funds directed to the Palestinian Authority to his wife Suha," who lives the good life in Paris. "According to the report, Arafat has accumulated in his private accounts more than $800 million from aid originally appropriated to the Palestinian authority."

The sad part is where that money comes from. You see, there's essentially three sources for every penny of the Palestinian Authority's money. The first is the U.N. They give them money (some of which was used to name a park in honor of one of the 9/11 murderers) to support the "government" of sorts that clings loosely to power there. That money is supposed to be used for things like creating industry (it's used to buy munitions, guns, and bombs) and education (it's used instead to indoctrinate hatred). Of course, the largest source of the U.N.'s capital is the U.S. The U.S. also gives money directly to the P.A. under the guise of funding them in exchange for peace concessions. This is like a mugger using your own gun against you. There have been no concessions ever given up by the P.A. to date. The third source of the P.A.'s financing is the E.U. The European Union loves to provide Arafat with money to pay off the families of homicide bombers. They get double delight in watching innocent Jews die without having to get themselves dirty in the process. I wonder how they sleep at night?

If the U.S. really wants to do something to stop the financing of terror, cut 100% of all funding to the P.A. under threat of trade sanctions and embargos. You want to see terror stop in a hurry? Arafat will build factories with the money he's stollen just to get the people out of the streets, before they come for his head.

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