Massive U.S. aid for the PA – some $700 million under Bush in 2008 and a likely $900 million this year under Obama – needs to stop until and unless change occurs. U.S. aid to the PA should be conditioned on Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah repudiating the Fatah constitution, unequivocally accepting Israel as a Jewish state and renouncing terrorism in word and deed, including the incitement to hatred and murder that feeds it.
Unless this occurs, all the diplomatic flurry for a peace settlement negotiated with Abbas’s PA will be simply an illusion built on sand.
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