Abbas Approves Reward Payments for the Family of Today's Suicide Bomber

One of the proofs that Saddam Hussein supported terrorism was his practice of sending checks to the families of suicide bombers who killed Israelis. Abbas officially issued a condemnation of today's Netanya suicide bombing on pragmatic (never moral) terms. However, it was announced today that he will be following Saddam's example in paying the bomber's family, using American, European and even Israeli-provided funds.

Abbas Approves PA Assistance to Families of Suicide Bombers (News First Class-translated from Hebrew by the Daily Alert):

On the very day of a suicide bombing in Netanya, it has been reported that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority gave budgetary approval to assistance for the families of suicide bombers.

Each martyr's family will receive a monthly stipend of at least $250 from the PA.

The budget for families of martyrs, prisoners, and the wounded could reach $100 million a year out of an annual budget of over $1 billion.

The PLO has been paying suicide bomber families, as well as Arab terrorists and even one must-read case of a celebrated leftist Jewish accomplice. Today's development, however, brings the payments into the category of "official Palestinian policy."