Getting Their Snouts in the Trough

...Despite the largest, most sustained program of foreign aid in the history of mankind, Palestinian life continues to be lived inside garbage cans and slums. The money, most of it European, did not disappear, as people frequently erroneously say. It simply reached the hands of the Palestinian insiders who - for generations - have built personal fortunes by controlling its kleptocracy. And there it stays, as it traditionally has.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
09 September '13..

Among the public figures we have watched from afar, and occasionally met, in the twelve years since our daughter was murdered, some fall into a special category of individuals responsible for deeds so unconscionable that we wonder how they live with themselves.

Most of that group are terrorists. The remainder form a small cluster of Western politicians and bureaucrats whose activities have been carried out in genteel office settings and parliamentary chambers, and whose impact was achieved by the work of pens rather than swords, bombs and poison gas.

With those thoughts in mind, we have been following in the past few days the crescendo of media attention being paid in the UK to the Patten/Thompson/BBC affair. For background, The Guardian offers a useful guide to the players ["Lord Patten, Mark Thompson and BBC payoffs: what you need to know"]. The expectation is that tomorrow in the British parliament, tough questions are going to be asked.

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