Middle East - Aid block 'may ruin Palestinians'

Wails the BBC. They elected a terror organization that calls for the destruction of Israel as their leader and until they renounce that and recognize Israel, they don't deserve our money.

The World Bank - which will also attend Tuesday's meeting - has now warned that unless an agreed funding mechanism is found quickly, serious instability is inevitable.

You mean instability like this?

A HAMAS plot to assassinate Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has been thwarted after he was tipped off by Israeli intelligence. Hamas’s military wing, the Izza Din Al-Qassem, had planned to kill Abbas at his office in Gaza, intelligence sources said.

Abbas, who became president of the Palestinian Authority last year after the death of Yasser Arafat, was formally warned of the danger by the Israelis and cancelled a planned visit to the territory.

The murder plan is the clearest sign yet of the tensions inside the Palestinian Authority between Hamas, which swept to power after elections in January, and Abbas’s Fatah movement.

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