There is no international right of perpetual welfare payments for Jew killers

There is something galling about the Arab/Palestinian attitude of entitlement. No matter how many times one explains it, they just don’t get it. International welfare is not a human right. Of course, it doesn’t help the Palestinians any when the alleged Arabs in position of leadership pander endlessly the same stupid canards. Case in point – this Jerusalem Post interview:

The emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, on Wednesday criticized the West for boycotting the Hamas government, saying that Palestinians are being punished for practicing democracy.

Western donors have cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority, and Israel has also suspended vital tax transfers to the Palestinians over the group's refusal to renounce violence, recognize Israel's right to exist and to accept past peace deals. Qatar, which hosts the Al-Jazeera TV network and the US military's Middle East command headquarters, has played an increasingly important role in the Middle East since ending its isolationist foreign policy.

The tiny Gulf state has retained ties with Hamas and helps keep the group afloat with private and public financial contributions. It is believed to have leverage over both Hamas and its Palestinian rival, Fatah. "Instead of rewarding the Palestinian people for practicing democracy, something rarely witnessed in our region, they have been punished for it," Sheik Hamad said in an address to the European Parliament. Hamas, which killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings, has refrained from large-scale violence since winning Palestinian legislative elections in January. But the government it leads has been hobbled by sanctions because of Hamas' refusal to rescind its call for Israel's destruction.

Here’s what Sheik Hamad cannot grasp - no Western government interfered with the right of the Palestinian people’s to elect a terrorist organization to represent them. Nor has any western government suggested that the Palestinian people do not have the right to overwhelming elect a terrorist organization to represent their interests.

That being said, there is no corresponding right or entitlement, which demands Western governments continue to provide welfare or handouts to any people whose values are diametrically opposed to everything the West stands for or values. Make a mockery of that and you can pay the piper yourself.

Nor is there a universally recognized international right to drive the Israelis/Jews into the sea or to pay the lorry drivers who will attempt to carry the Jews there either. Even the UN has not yet gone so far down the garden path that it is ready to consecrate or entrench the “international right of perpetual welfare payments for Jew killers everywhere”.