Reading about the Palestinian Authority asking the State Department to intervene on its side in lawsuits against it by U.S. victims of Palestinian terrorism – on grounds it makes no sense for the U.S. to give millions in aid to the PA while U.S. courts might bankrupt the PA – I was reminded of the famous joke that chutzpah is the child who murders his parents and pleads for mercy as an orphan.
What do you call a political body that has used its money for terrorism and then pleads it cannot pay damages to those it has harmed because it needs the money?
What do you call a political body that has been promised $7.4 billion in international aid to fight terrorism and then pleads poverty to meet its legal obligations relating to terrorism?
What do you call a political body receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of aid from the
What do you call a political body whose voters elect their premier terrorist group to control their government and then “recommit” at
What do you call a political body who has (at last count) approximately 80,000 “security forces,” whose training was overseen by a U.S. general and his staff for more than two years, and who could not hold on to Gaza for more than a week against Palestinian terrorists, but who thinks it should be given the right to try again in the West Bank?
What do you call a political body whose people were formally offered a state in 1937 (by the Peel Commission), 1947 (by the United Nations), 2000 (by
What do you call a political body who, like the orphan in the old joke, has only itself to blame for its present predicament, but uses its present predicament to seek mercy and money?
You call it the Palestinian Authority.
UPDATE: Thanks to American Thinker for publishing the rant; Thanks to Jewish Russian Telegraph for the tip; Thanks to Soccer Dad for the customary thorough analysis; and Thanks to Boker tov,
Still more at One Jerusalem and Israel Matzav.
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