[Zack Nguyen]

The fighting came as it emerged that the United States is secretly preparing to give £50 million to support forces loyal to the Fatah leader and president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas...

Now that is really being practical. Anyone who says this White House is too ideological to deal with anyone we don't like needs to check this out. $50 million to folks like that is hard to swallow, but probably necessary.

[Alter Kaker]

$50 million to folks like that is hard to swallow, but probably necessary.

It isn't $50 million. It's over $100,000,000. The figure listed in the article was in pounds, not dollars (a pound is worth much more than a dollar) but it is still low.