Who's Been Paying Palestinians? 

Who's Been Paying Palestinians?

From Al-Jazeera, of all sources:

"Before the American invasion of Iraq, its leader, Saddam Hussein, was one of the Arab world's strongest supporters of Palestinians. He regularly made lump-sum payments to surviving family members of suicide bombers and provided financial assistance for the families of bombers made homeless in Israeli reprisals."

I've seen something in the last few days that says Iraq under Saddam was the single biggest source of such payments; then there is a kind of throw-away line that about one-half of all such payments came from...the United States. Not the government, of course, but individuals supporting their favourite cause, like Irish-Americans supporting the IRA.

I need to find out more.

Maybe the U.S. is really having some success in cutting away the fuel that has fed the fires in the Mid East.