Our Friends the Saudis: Funding Murder
Charles Johnson
Sun Apr 1, 2007 at 10:33 am PDT • Views: 243
Notice how careful al-Reuters is being in this article about giving equal weight to the statements of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, and the genocidal terrorists of Hamas: Haniyeh gave Saudi cash to Hamas armed wing: Israel. (Hat tip: Weasel Zippers.)
You can almost smell Reuters’ skepticism about Israel’s claims—as if it were difficult to believe that Hamas would give money to their “armed wing.”
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli officials on Sunday said Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas received funds from a Saudi donor and had $1 million of it transferred to Hamas’s armed wing two days before he formed a unity government.
Haniyeh aide Ghazi Hamad said the statements were “unfounded and incorrect” and formed part of an Israeli campaign to undermine Haniyeh and the unity government.
The Israeli officials, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said Haniyeh received the Saudi money and directed the transfer to Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, during final negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah on forming the new government.
Hamad said Haniyeh did not receive money from Saudi Arabia. All the money that Hamas has received was given to the Palestinian government, he said.
In an amazingly open sign of disrespect, Reuters writer Adam Entous doesn’t even state Ehud Olmert’s position. The first reference to him in this article calls him simply “Olmert.”
Olmert referred publicly to the suspected transfer for the first time in an interview with Time magazine on Friday.
Frank says: