Why Doesn't Hamas Have To Play Ball?
This is just wonderful. When I saw this I simply shook my head. It seems that the EU has decided that Israel needs to abide by the Oslo accords even though their enemy doesn't.
Israel should release customs duties of 60 million euros ($72 million) per month to the Palestinian Authority's interim government, the European Union's head of external relations said in an interview on Monday.
"It would be important that the Israelis are paying out what is actually Palestinian money -- the customs duties," the European Commission's Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in an interview with Austria's daily newspaper Der Standard.
Israel has decided to stop handing over the customs revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority following the victory in parliamentary elections of Islamist group Hamas, which is committed to the destruction of the Jewish state.
Ferrero-Waldner reiterated that the European Union would not continue payments to the Palestinian Authority once Hamas takes it over, unless Hamas committed to recognize Israel, renounce violence, and honor past agreements between Israel and the Authority.
OK. So, the EU wants Israel to abide by the Oslo accords. Nevermind the fact that the accords were broken by the Palestinians in September of 2000 with the launch of the al-Aqsa Intifada by the Palestinians, and that Hamas was one of two groups to come out and state that the Oslo accords didn't affect them. They were going to continue fighting the Israelis. To them, the accord was much like the agreements Hitler signed prior to World War II; simply ink on a page.
I find it disgusting that the EU will shut off it's payments to the Hamas-led government, yet demands that Israel return what they believe is rightful money to the Palestinians. If I were the Israelis, I'd tell Europe to keep it's nose out of Israeli business. Even the EU wants Hamas to renounce it's violent past. If they don't, does the EU still want Israel to give them their money? Look this is simple math, kids. If Hamas has no money, they have no government. Hamas will gfo back to their violent ways, and Israel will deal with them. To avoid being dealt with, in like kind, all the Palestinians have to do is convince Hamas that their way doesn't work. Locked in a bitter struggle is not the way to win the hearts and minds of the Palestinian people.Show Israel you're serious about these efforts, and move forward on them.
Until that happens, Hamas should get nothing. No more money, no more support. Let them hit the streets with rocks in hand if they wish, but it's foolish to give a terrorist group money to run their government if there's no accountability where that money goes. This was one of the primary reasons why we requested--and received--our initial aid back from the Palestinians. That aid package is being treated like the tax dues that the EU is whining about. Hamas renounces it's ways, and embraces a new future, or the PA can collapse and we could give a rip when it does.
Publius II
This is just wonderful. When I saw this I simply shook my head. It seems that the EU has decided that Israel needs to abide by the Oslo accords even though their enemy doesn't.
Israel should release customs duties of 60 million euros ($72 million) per month to the Palestinian Authority's interim government, the European Union's head of external relations said in an interview on Monday.
"It would be important that the Israelis are paying out what is actually Palestinian money -- the customs duties," the European Commission's Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in an interview with Austria's daily newspaper Der Standard.
Israel has decided to stop handing over the customs revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority following the victory in parliamentary elections of Islamist group Hamas, which is committed to the destruction of the Jewish state.
Ferrero-Waldner reiterated that the European Union would not continue payments to the Palestinian Authority once Hamas takes it over, unless Hamas committed to recognize Israel, renounce violence, and honor past agreements between Israel and the Authority.
OK. So, the EU wants Israel to abide by the Oslo accords. Nevermind the fact that the accords were broken by the Palestinians in September of 2000 with the launch of the al-Aqsa Intifada by the Palestinians, and that Hamas was one of two groups to come out and state that the Oslo accords didn't affect them. They were going to continue fighting the Israelis. To them, the accord was much like the agreements Hitler signed prior to World War II; simply ink on a page.
I find it disgusting that the EU will shut off it's payments to the Hamas-led government, yet demands that Israel return what they believe is rightful money to the Palestinians. If I were the Israelis, I'd tell Europe to keep it's nose out of Israeli business. Even the EU wants Hamas to renounce it's violent past. If they don't, does the EU still want Israel to give them their money? Look this is simple math, kids. If Hamas has no money, they have no government. Hamas will gfo back to their violent ways, and Israel will deal with them. To avoid being dealt with, in like kind, all the Palestinians have to do is convince Hamas that their way doesn't work. Locked in a bitter struggle is not the way to win the hearts and minds of the Palestinian people.Show Israel you're serious about these efforts, and move forward on them.
Until that happens, Hamas should get nothing. No more money, no more support. Let them hit the streets with rocks in hand if they wish, but it's foolish to give a terrorist group money to run their government if there's no accountability where that money goes. This was one of the primary reasons why we requested--and received--our initial aid back from the Palestinians. That aid package is being treated like the tax dues that the EU is whining about. Hamas renounces it's ways, and embraces a new future, or the PA can collapse and we could give a rip when it does.
Publius II
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