PALIS NOT HAPPY ZARQAWI IS DEAD

THE U.S. HAS KILLED A MAJOR AL QAEDA TERRORIST LEADER IN IRAQ. THE PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PAUSED FROM HIS DEMANDS THAT THE U.S. SHOWER HAMAS WITH MONEY AND VOWED THAT DESPITE ZARQAWI'S DEATH, THE RESISTENCE AGAINST THE EVIL U.S. OCCUPATION OF IRAQ WOULD CONTINUE. WHERE DO WE SEND YOUR AID CHECK, MY FRIEND?

Iraqis Whoop It Up, Palestinians Don't (WSJ-BOTW)
"Iraqi citizens took to the streets celebrating Abu Musaab Zarqawi's death on Thursday," reports the Kuwait News Agency:

Joy filled Baghdad's hot streets, as gun shots sounded through the air, and cars packed with overjoyed Iraqi's roamed the streets. Iraqis were sharing sweets with people outside their homes.

Civil organizations paraded as they condemned violence chanting "death to Zarqawi and Saddamites." Thursday's celebrations could be compared to the jubilation in Baghdad's streets the day Saddam Hussein was captured.

Some Palestinians reacted similarly to the attacks of Sept. 11, but their reaction to today's was more subdued, reports the Jerusalem Post:

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death was only a minor loss to the anti-US resistance movement in Iraq, the Palestinian foreign minister said Thursday.

Mahmoud Zahar, a member of the new Hamas-led government who has been meeting Pakistani officials in the capital of Islamabad, said the Palestinians are "blessing every effort to eliminate the existence of occupation."

"We are dead sure that assassination of any of the people (like al-Zarqawi) who are resisting will not . . . end the resistance," Zahar said at a press conference.

Remember this the next time someone says America should have let the Iraqis rot under Saddam Hussein and concerned ourselves with the Palestinians instead.