"Palestine is Arab." And with that, Saddam was hanged - to the joy of many, to the consternation of others, and to the sorrow of the so-called Palestinians. Saddam, after all, was their greatest ally. Palestinians cheered during the 1991 Gulf War, when Saddam launched scud missiles into Israel.
He further endeared himself to the Palestinians during the recent uprising with Israel by giving US$25,000 to the family of each suicide bomber and US$10,000 for each Palestinian killed in fighting. The stipends amounted to an estimated US$35 million.
$35 million could have moved a lot of Iraqis out of mud homes, but Saddam had better things to do with the money. So it's unsurprising that the "Palestinians" are mourning. Who, now, will pay off the homicide bombers' families?
