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Shalit Kidnappers Were Palestinian Authority Employees

Which means that their salaries were paid by international aid and Israeli largess - and that their families still receive benefits from the same sources. And they want more:

Some of the Palestinian gunmen who participated in the kidnapping of IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit last year have long been on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority... [Palestinian] sources named two of the suspected kidnappers as Muhammad Azmi Farawneh and Majdi Tayseer Hammad... [who were] killed by Israel in separate attacks over the past year. Farawneh is believed to have played a key role in the abduction of Schalit. Hammad was the commander of... one of the groups that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping...

The fact that they have been on the payroll of the PA was disclosed after their families protested against the low pension that the PA has decided to allocate them... The PA has also been paying salaries to thousands of Fatah gunmen belonging to the faction's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades.

Something to think about when you hear how the State Department is pushing Congress - or, for that matter, Israel - to give money to Fatah. Which they do seemingly every other week.

References:
* PA paying Schalit captors' families [JPost]

Previously:
* Bonus Outrage: Abbas Rejects Two-State Solution, Eilat Bombing Happened After Israel Released Money To Him Anyway
* Troops Of the Oh-So-Moderate Abbas Launching Rockets At Israel
* Secretary Rice: Sure, Abbas Is Allied With Genocidal Maniacs. That Doesn't Mean We Shouldn't Help Him.

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