Abbas Pays Hamas

Israel is giving approximately $400 million to Mahmoud Abbas to "fight Hamas." Abbas is now using that money to pay Hamas leaders. That doesn't seem like the behavior of someone who was allegedly defeated by Hamas in Gaza and who is allegedly continuing the battle in the West Bank. Particularly given that Israel just freed 30 Hamas prisoners after pressure from Abbas:

The Palestinian caretaker government has resumed payment of members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), including Hamas members such as deposed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and former Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar. The caretaker government, headed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is also meeting today in Ramallah to discuss the plight of more than 6,000 Palestinians stranded in Egypt at the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip.

Official sources in the PLC said that all members have received a portion of their salaries, which were not disbursed at all in the last period.

The Palestinian daily Al Hayat quoted caretaker Information Minister Riyad Najib Al-Maliki saying, "The Government transferred part of the employees' salaries in addition to the PLC members' without any exclusions." He also said : "No one can seize the salary of any PLC member because of his political views. The salary payment is part of the job of the Palestinian Authority."

Which leads one to be suspicious of the universally reported news that Abbas had "fired Hamas" after Hamas' Gaza takeover.

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