President Barack Obama and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met Wednesday at the White House for talks on Gaza. During the meeting Mr. Obama pledged $400 million in aid to Abbas, former CFO of the terror organization responsible for funding the Munich Massacre in 1972. Eleven Israeli Olympic athletes and coaches were murdered.

This is quite a different approach from the president’s last, strained meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He didn’t even get a PB&J when Mr. Obama cavalierly exited the meetings with a backhanded, "I’m going to the residential wing to have dinner with Michelle and the girls.” He challenged the prime minister to consider the error of his ways, and is quoted as having said, "Let me know if there is anything new.”

Now the president has welcomed the PA leader, and with the usual aplomb of the Liberal Left, President Obama simply tosses money at the problem of Gaza. No stand is taken against the terrorist regime that holds the people in that region by the throat. Abbas goes home with a decidedly fatter bank account.

According to Mr. Obama the money will be used for housing, schools, health and infrastructure needs. In view of the fact that Hamas has control of Gaza and Abbas has no authority in the area, just how is he going to oversee the $400 million? Perhaps it will find its way into personal Swiss bank accounts as did money funded to Yasser Arafat.

Given that terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah have no problem with using schools, synagogues, and even hospitals in which to hide their munitions and from which to launch their attacks against Israel, America could be aiding and abetting further terror attacks against Israel. Of course, Israel would be forced to retaliate. It’s a lose/lose battle for the Jewish State.

The president set the tone for the meeting with Abbas by labeling the tense face-off in the Middle East "unsustainable.” He also predicted that "real progress” would come with US attempts to force the Israelis into more land for peace deals. I can find no mention in news from the White House about Egypt’s blockade or why the building materials deemed necessary for Gaza’s well-being have not been flooding into the area across the Egyptian border.

One can but wonder how tightly the thumbscrews will be applied to Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government in order to try to coerce them into reopening talks with Abbas and the PA. It seems that concessions are Israel’s to make, not by the PA or Hamas in Gaza.

While Obama called again on Israel to stop building settlements in what he calls "disputed territories”, he asked Abbas to make progress in the area of security. The question remains: How can Israel sit down at the bargaining able with people who refuse to acknowledge the Jewish state’s existence?

The meeting between the two men came ten days after the attack on the flotilla that tried unsuccessfully to break Israel’s blockade against Gaza. Israeli troops were lured into an untenable situation and found themselves fighting for their lives during what should have been a peaceful boarding and redirection of one of the ships. With its resolve being tested not only by terrorist organizations and countries such as Iran, Israel now finds itself being abandoned by the Obama administration. The shift is most noticeable in the UN where Israel no longer enjoys automatic support from the U.S. An Israeli official said, "It’s difficult to decipher the intentions behind the changing U.S. policy at the United Nations.”

Fortunately, Israel still enjoys the backing of a large group of Senators and Representatives who have been very vocal with their support. Senator Joe Lieberman said, "We should be very clear about who is responsible for the unfortunate loss of life in the attempt to break the blockade in Gaza. Hamas and its allies are the responsible parties…Israel exercised her legitimate right of self defense.”

According to Senator John Kerry, "Israel has every right…to make certain that weapons are not being smuggled in after the thousands of rockets that have been fired on it from Gaza.”  

Senator Harry Reid: "Israel has an obligation to protect its citizens and therefore has a clear right under international law to prevent weapons from getting in the hands of terrorists determined to target them.”

Newly elected Senator Scott Brown added, "Israel is at war. Each and every day thousands of its innocent men, women, and children face the threat of the lethal rocket attacks out of Gaza.”

Texas Representative Pete Sessions said, "This will likely not be the last time terrorist organizations – under the guise of humanitarian aid – seek to provoke Israel. As much of the world turns the other way, my support for Israel remains steadfast in its struggle for security…”

It is ironic and ludicrous that countries such as Cuba and Saudi Arabia gather at the UN to chastise Israel about human rights. The Obama administration must rethink its policy toward Israel. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must defend the rights of our closest democratic ally in the Middle East to keep its populace safe from terrorist attacks. The United States must not give any credence to those who would deny Israel the right to self-defense.

Gaza is governed by an organization whose charter denies Israel’s very right to exist, and whose name is on the U.S. terrorist list because of its heinous activities. Israel has been soundly criticized because no weapons were seized from the flotilla stopped on May 31. It is critically important, however, that Israel maintain control over the entry points for any aid into Gaza. Should she relax her vigilance, Gaza will be flooded with war materiel and Israel will reap the whirlwind of Hamas’ windfall.

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Dr. Michael D. Evans is the #1 New York Times bestselling author, and author of Jimmy Carter: The Liberal Left and World Chaos and Atomic Iran.