PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas and EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana. The European Union agreed today to gift the new Palestinian Hamas government with $143 million in 'urgent aid'. The funds were required to avoid "economic chaos" from paralyzing the Palestinian Authority, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said.
Officials said the aid package comprises $48 million to pay for the Palestinian Authority's energy and other utility bills, $76 million for health and education projects and $21 million to help the authority pay its employees. Apparently al Aksa and the Tanzim won't kill Jews as a hobby.
The rationalization on this is that the money is for humanitarian purposes, and to be given to the Palestinians before the Hamas government takes power. Of course, since the money is being given directly to Abbas, the same person who padded the PA payroll with 37,000 `jobs' for positions that didn't exist and considering that there is little or no oversight possible as to where the funds end up, this ends up being the grossest hypocrisy on the EU's part, funding a government headed by an organization the EU itself labels as terrorists.
"The concept is to be able to help the Palestinian people, to be able to help the Palestinian Authority during this transition period," said EU spokeswoman Cristina Gallach.
"Later on we will evaluate what is the government doing, what the composition of the government is," Gallach said. "What we want is to help as much as possible the Palestinian president, the key interlocutor and somebody we have dealt with for a long time."
"We will continue to support the Palestinian Authority until the new government is formed and we have tried to find the necessary resources to do that," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said after a telephone conference call that included UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
"We hope that we will have enough money to sustain the Palestinian Authority at least until the new government is established," Solana told reporters.
Some terrorists are apparently more worthy than others of aid and support from the West.
And just to think that in 6 months the Palestinian problem would cease to exist if we stopped to pay them the "land" tax.
ReplyDeleteAt certain stage it's just right to stop the life support system from a corpse.
Oh, I very much disagree,mate.
ReplyDeleteThe Palestinian Authority is awash in cash...they would much rather be what you Ozzies would refer to as `dole blodgers'...welfare recipiants... and spend their money on weapons, PR and their own personal fortunes while keeping the Palestinian people poor and in refugee camps.
This is the bigest scam in history.
Sufa Arafat keeps her mouth shut about where all the bodies are buried and survives in Paris on about $1.5M a month .
And `honest' Abbas padded the PA payroll with 37,000 non-existent jobs
that all drew paychecks paid for by the international community and no one is asking who's pockets that money ended up in!
That came out when the Saudis made Hamas do an audit before giving them any money.
The reality is that the EU is buying off the Muslims in their home countries and facilitating business with the Arab world by robbing their owntaxpayers and supporting terorism against Israel.
The PA would not whither away and die if the West didn't aid it...the Arabs woould simply pick up the slack.