Cash and Carry

Hours after cash-starved civil servants stormed parliament, the Palestinian foreign minister returned Wednesday from a trip to Muslim nations with $20 million in a suitcase, a sign of Hamas' desperation for money in the face of a Western boycott.

Dozens of the civil servants had burst into the parliament building in the West Bank to demand their long-overdue salaries, throwing water bottles at Hamas lawmakers and forcing the parliament speaker to flee.

The second attack on the parliament this week, along with the shooting death of a Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip, cast doubt on renewed efforts by leaders of the rival Fatah and Hamas parties to halt deadly infighting.

Anyone want to take a crack at how Hamas managed to get $20 million? Illicitly? Charity from pro-terrorist Islamic groups in Europe? Useful idiots who don't realize they're funding terrorism and not humanitarian aid?

All of the above?

Oh, and just be sure that you don't call this a civil war. That would be very uncivil of you.