As the international community wails about the desperate plight of the “cash-starved” Palestinian people, arms dealers in the PA can’t keep up with the demand for tools of violence: Palestinian Chaos Spreads.

A Palestinian arms dealer in Ramallah, who wished to remain anonymous as he offered to sell NEWSWEEK an unsolicited MP5 submachine gun, says that the price of a U.S.-made M-16 on the black market has doubled, from $5,000 to $10,000, since Hamas took power. “Hamas is buying like crazy,” the dealer says.