This is in full accord with the intransigence and unwilligness to negotiate that is a hallmark of the jihad ideology. From the Sunday Times, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
PALESTINIAN fighters have revealed that Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese group backed by Iran, is offering to pay for attacks aimed at shattering the fragile truce with Israel. Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, has made it clear that one suicide bomber in Tel Aviv could prompt him to abandon negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and may even delay Israel's disengagement from Gaza, which is planned for July.In the first concrete evidence of Iranian interference in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the men, all on Israel's most wanted list, said they had received payments of up to $9,000 (about £4,800) sent by Hezbollah to the West Bank for attacks against Israel during the past four years.
They said that most of the money from Hezbollah had been sent to Islamic Jihad, the militant fundamentalist group that has sent suicide bombers into Israeli cities. The men, members of the al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - the military wing of Fatah, the secular group founded by Yasser Arafat - knew of the payments because they liaised with Islamic Jihad in their area, near the West Bank city of Nablus.
"They would send Islamic Jihad money in amounts of something like $4,000," said Ala'a Sanakreh, the 27-year-old leader of the group. "It's easy - they just use Western Union."...
Abbas solidified an agreement to keep the peace two weeks ago in Cairo by persuading 13 of the most radical Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, to co-operate....
The money from Hezbollah, which takes its orders from Tehran, appears to be evidence of Iran's desire to stop a negotiated peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Iran, through it's local proxy Hezbollah stirring up trouble? Who'da thunk it of either of them?
RoP, MA!
RoP, MA!
Hezbollah is really a front for freedom and human rights: for koranimals
Fitting that they work to destroy the West by using Western Union.
(Does this odd figure of $4000 for a 'mission' come from the legal limit that says transfering sums of $5000 or more needs to be declared?)
RE: the meddling Iranians and Hezbollah-
There will never be a 'peace' between Palestinians and Israel. Only a cease fire.
Unless all Jews convert to Islam.
(And, just to mess with the Muslims' minds I almost wish they would. They could be a 'new offshoot', something like the more mystically-inclined Sufis... maybe called the 'Jewfis'?)
Meanwhile-
Iranian Persians need to be encouraged to treasure their Zoroastrian roots and shuck off the jive of Islamic tyranny.
Thus spake Zarathustra, in deed.
"It's easy - they just use Western Union."...
Fine. Then close down Western Union offices in Israel, and make sure that Western Union everywhere in the wider Western non-Union puts Western Union on notice, as should all money-transfer organizations: you will be watched, you will be monitored, you will be held accountable. Step by step, close off whatever can be closed off, and make life as difficult for Jihadists everywhere, including drying up the ponds of ideological supporters or quasi-sympathizers or protectors from which they come, and to which, for safety, they naturally return.
Cool, I'll send my FRNHT-9/11 and Ben Aflick
movies.
Bombs away!