Religions > Bible > European Union starts to prove that it is the Great BEAST by supporting Hamas therefore hurting ISRAEL ?
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European Market foreign ministers decide to continue aid to Hamas-ruled
Palestinian government despite the terror group's refusal to
relinquish violence and its advocacy of Israel's destruction
Europe on Slippery Slope to Recognizing Hamas-ruled Palestinian
Government
A DEBKAfile Special Analysis
January 30, 2006, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
After a series of muddled statements and zigzags, wishful thinking
prevailed in London and Brussels after all. The European Union, led by
the Middle East Quartet, agreed to release financial aid to a
Palestinian government taken over by a terrorist organization.
"We give them three months to assess the situation. We don't want
chaos and we want to go on with the peace process," said EU foreign
executive, Javier Solana at the end of the foreign ministers' meeting
in Brussels Monday, 30 Jan.
Hamas, which is responsible for at least 60 bombing attacks on Israelis
and countless deaths, did not have to fight too hard or too long for a
reversal of the short-lived boycott on funding, sparked by its election
victory over Fatah with 74 seats in the 132 Palestinian Legislative
Council.
The Islamist terrorists were not required to give up a single principle
for the sake of Western aid.
After the Quartet's decision, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice
left Europe for Kabul. At first, she tried urging the EU to stand by
its pledge to withhold aid from the Palestinians until Hamas renounces
terrorism. A few hours later, like her European colleages, she was
saying two opposite things at once: The administration, she said, would
follow through on aid promised to the current, US-backed Palestinian
government led by President Mahmoud Abbas. But then, Rice went on to
rule out any US financial assistance to an organization that advocates
the destruction of Israel, advocates violence and refuses its
obligations under an international framework for eventual Mideast
peace.
The inference here is that Abbas, supported from Washington and
Jerusalem, was responsible for Hamas's participation in the Jan 25
election. So it was up to him to arrange things so as to enable West to
send financial aid to the Palestinian people without violating its own
laws and principles against terrorist organizations.
The stakes are high. The EU gave the PA $615 million last year. The US
had budgeted $234 for 2006.
The West and Israel too are clearly clinging to Mahmoud Abbas, whose
Fatah was trounced in the Palestinian election last week, as a fig leaf
to cover the true shape of the new Palestinian government until
everyone can catch their breath and come up with a coherent new policy.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh played along with this stratagem by
appealing to the Americans and Europeans to keep the aid funds flowing
because, he said, they were not destined for Hamas but for Palestinian
president Abu Mazen.
The only clear statement came from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the
next EU president, Monday in Jerusalem:
A Palestinian Authority that included Hamas cannot be directly
supported by EU money as long as the group refuses to give up violence
and refuses to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, she said. This
meant that Berlin ties financial aid to the Hamas changing at least one
of its stripes - relinquishing terrorism.
However as a collective, European foreign ministers meeting in
Brussels, including her own subordinate, sang a different tune.
Hamas provided the European powers with some helpful keys for unlocking
Western aid for zero concessions:
1. Hamas does not intend heading or even participating in the next
Palestinian government. That administration will therefore not match
the strict definition of a Hamas government. This magicked away one
major obstacle holding up the flow of aid funds from Europe.
2. Hamas does not oppose the new Palestinian government meeting its
obligations under international frameworks. That is no problem either.
Hamas has no trouble voting for the peace principle so long as its
conditions are met, namely Israel must disappear.
3. A new government can be voted in by Fatah's 44 votes plus the
smaller factions. Hamas lawmakers will abstain. The new government is
free to adopt the principle of peaceful negotiation or any other
guideline it wishes. In any case, Hamas will dictate government
policies and actions by remote control. Yasser Arafat provided a
precedent. He freely pledged to refrain from sponsoring terrorism,
which did not stop him at the same time plotting, orchestrating,
pinpointing and funding terrorist operations. That example will serve
Hamas in good stead.
4. Aid funds may be transferred to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian
Authority through a third party, whether international or an Islamic
charity.
None of these options was ruled out in Western stipulations for
continued aid to the Palestinians. Quite the contrary, they were seized
on to ease the decision to go forward.
The Israeli position is as two-faced as the Europeans'. On the one
hand, acting prime minister Ehud Olmert announced the NIS200 million
($44 million) of revenues due to the Palestinians will be frozen so
that they do not reach the hands of murderous terrorists determined to
destroy Israel. But then he went on to say: "At this stage, we are
studying the situation and following developments."
In other words, Israel is withholding funds for a brief period, after
which Jerusalem will decide what happens next in consultation with the
Americans and Europeans.
DEBKAfile's Islamic experts warn that these transparent maneuvers
will be seen by the Islamic terrorists group as a sign of weakness and
they will therefore blow back in the faces of their authors. Hamas will
maintain its seemingly reasonable posture and hold its fire, while
using the chance to go forward without interference towards its
long-term religious-territorial goals
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The EU decision to continue aid to a Hamas government is a crippling
blow for the war on global Islamic terror
DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources: The EU decision to continue aid
to a Hamas government is a crippling blow for the war on global Islamic
terror
January 30, 2006, 9:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
For the first time, a jihadist terror group which operates suicide
killers and missiles has been granted partial legitimacy without giving
up a single one of its destructive aims or methods. It represents a
fiasco for the campaign Israel's Olmert government and foreign
minister Tzipi LIvni launched to drum up international support for a
boycott of the new Palestinian administration.
The slap in the face was all the more stinging in that was inflicted
during the epic visit to Israel of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Israel's leaders, including Binyamin Netanyahu and ex-foreign
minister Silvan Shalom for the opposition, failed to convince her to
pick up the phone and halt the European slide towards recognition of a
Hamas Palestinian regime and funding to bolster its first three months
in power.
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| User: "Tom Moore http://let.tommoore.be/index_files/default.htm" |
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| Title: Re: European Union starts to prove that it is the Great BEAST by supporting Hamas therefore hurting ISRAEL ? |
31 Jan 2006 01:00:26 AM |
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"Air Raid" <AirRaidJet@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1138682802.533327.97440@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
European Market foreign ministers decide to continue
aid to Hamas-ruled Palestinian government despite the
terror group's refusal to relinquish violence and its
advocacy of Israel's destruction
The new Great Britain, reminding the people of the US, why their founding
fathers left the old Great Britain.
Britannia waives the rules.
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http://medicineblocked.tommoore.be/
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