...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
The man overseeing the allegedly reformed system is Raed Abu al-Humus, the Free Beacon's Andrew Tobin reports from Jerusalem. He spent 10 years in prison alongside Nasser Abu Hamid, the late founder of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Abu al-Humus has praised his jailmate as a "masked lion" and "inspiration" to the "Paleostinian youth." Now, he's leading Abbas's Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs.
Abu al-Humus replaces Qadura Fares, another convicted terrorist whom Abbas fired in a move that seemingly demonstrated his seriousness about reforming "pay for slay."
"Just hours after his appointment," Tobin reports, the commission "published a photograph of Abu al-Humus smiling alongside two arch-terrorists, Ahmed Barghouti and Mohammed Aradeh, whom Israel recently released to Cairo as part of a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...." Both were serving life sentences.
"The photo is among a number of early signs that Abbas will once again disappoint international donors who expect him to end 'pay for slay,'" Tobin writes. "Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
's al-Sharq newspaper quoted unnamed senior Paleostinian officials last Wednesday as saying the terrorism payments would continue 'without any reduction.'"