If Iran calls for the cheque, for Frack’s sake; let them pick up the bill

In a show of good guest etiquette which proves that Iran never goes anywhere uninvited nor arrives empty handed - Iran will be taking on fiscal responsibilities for the world largest welfare defacto state if the west decides it no longer wants to fund the world’s first official terrorist welfare state reports the Jerusalem Post.

Iran offered Wednesday to help finance a Palestinian Authority run by Hamas, state radio reported. The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, announced the offer after a meeting with Khaled Mashaal, exiled leader of the Hamas, in Tehran, the radio said.

Larijani said the decision was taken after the United States said it would not provide aid to an authority governed by Hamas until the group renounced violence, recognized Israel and agreed to abide by existing agreements between Israel and the Palestinians. "The United States proved that it would not support democracy after it cut its aid to the Palestinian government after Hamas won the elections. We will certainly help the Palestinians," Larijani said, according to the radio.

Mashaal said Tuesday that Iran will have a "major role" in Palestinian affairs. But Hamas leaders in the territories told The Jerusalem Post that they were "not rushing" to embrace that role. "The ayatollah's regime will have a major role in Palestine," Mashaal said during a meeting in Teheran with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. "We trust Iran to help us deal with the challenges facing us today."

Mashaal is visiting Iran as part of a tour of Arab and Muslim countries aimed at gaining political and financial support for the soon-to-be Hamas-led government. The Palestinian Authority faces a serious financial crunch and possible collapse following the landslide Hamas victory in the recent Palestinian legislative elections.

While I don’t mean to be cavalier with Israeli lives, I would like to see Iran pick up the whole fiscal shooting match and watch as Iran sinks under its herculean weight. If Iran wants to take on fully funding the Palestinian Authority that just means there is less for everyone else to go around. Even Hezbollah would feel that pinch which makes it all good in my eyes.

The Palestinian Authority is a cesspool of a never-ending welfare state that would be an endless drain and millstone around the neck of the Iranian economy. I say, better them than us. Some would object that it would give the Iranians too much influence with the Palestinians Arabs, but if this poll is to believed - the Palestinian people are already psychologically prepared to be surgically attached to some mullah butt. After all, it was the Palestinians who developed and refined the whole idea of using school children as guidance systems for the delivery of incomings. Besides hitting two birds with one stone if a far more effective use of the west’s resources than attempting to feed two crocodiles at once.