EU approves and Abbas Abu Mazen pays Hamas members' salaries

'Moderate Palestinian President' Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen paid the salaries of some 5000 members of Hamas' 'special operational force,' according to an article in HaAretz this morning. The money came out of funds sent to Abu Mazen by the Arab League to pay the salaries of the 'Palestinian Authority's' 170,000 bureaucrats. According to HaAretz, most members of the "operational force" belong to