EU Seeks to Solve Palestinian Corruption by Giving Them More Money
Speaking of the Europeans:
The European Union announced details of new aid for the Palestinians, raising the 2005 total to 280 million euro on Monday, a day before talks between the four parties that drive the Mideast peace process. If assistance from the 25 EU governments is added, Europe's total annual aid to the Palestinians amounts to some 500 million euro.
"Only Israel and Palestine can make peace, but Europe is playing its part in the international Quartet to create the environment in which peace can take root," EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement.
We won't insult your knowledge of the Middle East with a pedantic exegesis linking rhetoric of an already existing, independent "Palestine' to a thouroughly anti-Israel political sensibility. Instead, we'll insult your knowledge of the Middle East by linking to a very recent study describing how the Palestinian Authority steals the aid it gets:
[T]he focus of world sympathy and concern seems to be directed towards three million Arabs living in Israeli territories who are receiving the highest amount of aid in the world on a per capita basis... The implication is that the high amount of aid going to OPT is funding militias and promoting violent conflict, instead of improving the lives of the population. Israel, as the occupying power, should be absolved of any blame. The Palestinian Arabs are suffering from deep, self-inflicted wounds, not from Israeli occupation.
That study was commissioned by the United Nations. Yes - even United Nations numbers now demonstrate that many if not most of the harms that the Palestinians suffer are because of their leaders' corruption and their street's violence.
The European Union announced details of new aid for the Palestinians, raising the 2005 total to 280 million euro on Monday, a day before talks between the four parties that drive the Mideast peace process. If assistance from the 25 EU governments is added, Europe's total annual aid to the Palestinians amounts to some 500 million euro.
"Only Israel and Palestine can make peace, but Europe is playing its part in the international Quartet to create the environment in which peace can take root," EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement.
We won't insult your knowledge of the Middle East with a pedantic exegesis linking rhetoric of an already existing, independent "Palestine' to a thouroughly anti-Israel political sensibility. Instead, we'll insult your knowledge of the Middle East by linking to a very recent study describing how the Palestinian Authority steals the aid it gets:
[T]he focus of world sympathy and concern seems to be directed towards three million Arabs living in Israeli territories who are receiving the highest amount of aid in the world on a per capita basis... The implication is that the high amount of aid going to OPT is funding militias and promoting violent conflict, instead of improving the lives of the population. Israel, as the occupying power, should be absolved of any blame. The Palestinian Arabs are suffering from deep, self-inflicted wounds, not from Israeli occupation.
That study was commissioned by the United Nations. Yes - even United Nations numbers now demonstrate that many if not most of the harms that the Palestinians suffer are because of their leaders' corruption and their street's violence.
