Dan Pipes at Townhall.com

In that article, he details the amazingly obscene amounts of money Americans are unknowingly giving to the PLO because of Condoleeza Rice and the US government’s total cluelessness.

An indication of how clueless this is is clearly depicted in this graph showing the number of homocide deaths in relation to donations.

As Pipes points out:

The correlation is even clearer when the aid of one year is superimposed on the homicides of a year later:

In brief, each $1.25 million or so of budgetary support aid translates into a death within the year. As Stotsky notes, “These statistics do not mean that foreign aid causes violence; but they do raise questions about the effectiveness of using foreign donations to promote moderation and combat terrorism.”

Those are expensive hits if you think about it. The mafia would do it for less.

Pipes wrote about this in 2001, saying this “is tantamount to sending the enemy resources while fighting is still under way – not a hugely bright idea.”

Rather than further funding Palestinian bellicosity, Western states, starting with Israel, should cut off all funds to the Palestinian Authority.

This is elementary and pure common sense…but our government has taken a complete departure from common sense where the war on terror is concerned. You can’t hold hands with the enemy at the same time you’re supposedly fighting them.