(Tablet) Lee Smith - America's response to the announcement of a Palestinian unity government that would include Hamas, which the State Department has designated as a global terrorist organization, was a shocking change in U.S. foreign policy. Instead of making war on terrorists, America would henceforth be directly funding one of the largest and most deadly terrorist armies in the world. PA President Mahmoud Abbas' move to bring Hamas into a unity government with his own Fatah party means that U.S. taxpayers will be paying the salaries of men who belong to an organization sworn to the destruction of an American ally - and who repeatedly endorse and employ the murder of innocent civilians through the grim arsenal of terror as a means of achieving their goals. Abbas is gambling that the Obama administration will continue to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to whatever he proclaims to be the new Palestinian government.
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