$1.2 billion

Some 'boycott.'The New York Times and al-AP are reporting this evening that despite the 'boycott' of the Hamas-led 'Palestinian Authority,' the United States, Europe and Israel provided it with some $1.2 billion in assistance in 2006. That does not include cash smuggled into the Gaza Strip in suitcases. But it does constitute some $300 in assistance for every man, woman and child in the '