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Daniel Pipes showed previously how the flood of Western aid bolsters Palestinian extremism and terrorism and fortifies its rejection of Israel. So its no surprise that he thinks bringing about a Palestinian economic collapse might just hasten Middle East peace. The reason for this is the Middle East is counterintuitive. To bring about the results Israel and the West would like to see, the opposite of the normal policies have to be applied to the Palestinian situation. Otherwise the Palestinians have no real incentive to change their behavior to a more peaceful path. As Pipes has written here, the wasted result of the huge amount of Western aid to the Palestinians is the law of unintended - really the law of perverse consequences at work. Its time to try a different approach.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

1 posted on 12/26/2007 7:05:13 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
A BTT for an interesting article. This is, after all, a people beset by the deliberate poisoning of hatred. The aid that supported their government pales in comparison to the aid that keeps the terror war alive there.

The PA's payroll is so bloated that the cost of wages alone exceeds all revenues.

In short, everyone who is anyone works (or worked) for the government. That isn't exactly a recipe for a people to pull itself up by its collective bootstraps. "Palestine" is, to be sure, an interesting social experiment so long as you're not one of the lab rats. It's a little tough to be a real human being trying to live in the laboratory, whether Israeli or otherwise.

2 posted on 12/26/2007 7:17:21 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Just like welfare in the U.S. It was a subsidy for drug dealerships in the slums, and was responsible for the astronomical murder rate there. The 1994 Congress's whacking of welfare turned our cities around.

If they shipped all the Pallies to, say, Brazil, with no subsidies, the entrepreneurs would take charge and find a way to kill or silence all the Islamists. In five years, they'd be running Brazil.

4 posted on 12/26/2007 7:30:09 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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This conflict has been going in before I was born. The world would like to see this end, however , for the best outcome,(ours in particular), the Palestinians must be brought to their knees. There greatest obstacle is their so called leaders.
6 posted on 12/26/2007 7:41:57 PM PST by TOneocon (The reason there is so much poverty is because of the uneven distribution of capitalism...Rush)
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Pipes is wasting his time. Funding Fatah is what the Saudis want. And what the Saudis want they get. Especially when they have agents like the pretender now running the Department of State at their beck and call.


7 posted on 12/26/2007 7:44:10 PM PST by montag813
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8 posted on 12/27/2007 6:56:43 AM PST by SJackson (America...thru dissent and protest lost the ability to mobilize a will to win, Col Bui Tin, PAVN)
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