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Saudis Provide Most of Hamas Funding
(Jerusalem Post) - Janine Zacharia More than 50% of Hamas's current funding comes from Saudi Arabia and is increasing despite President Bush's call to the kingdom to halt aid to Palestinian terrorist groups, Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN and a researcher of terrorist financing, told the House International Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East Tuesday in Washington. "The Saudi share of Hamas funding is growing, not declining. We're getting no change in Saudi behavior," said Gold, author of Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism. He said Saudi Arabia continues to directly fund Hamas's military wing, provides funding for civilian, terrorist-front organizations, and writes checks to families of homicide bombers. Saudi funding of Hamas undermines any peace process the U.S. tries to push forward, Gold said.