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| EU’s "Proxy War" on America | ||
| 2003-12-26 | ||
| EFL European Union Parliament member Ilka Schroeder delivered an address entitled, "The European Union, Israel, and Palestinian Terrorism" at the Center for German Studies of Ben Gurion University on Monday. "The Europeans," explained MP Schroeder, "supported the Palestinian Authority with the aim of becoming its main sponsor, and through this, challenge the U.S. and present themselves as the future global power. Therefore, the Al-Aqsa Intifada should be understood as a proxy war between Europe and the United States." The EU doesn’t have the guts to wage a real war against us, so they use a bunch of terrorists to kill Jews. Sort of kills two birds with one stone, thrown by someone else. "It is an open secret within the European Parliament that EU aid to the Palestinian Authority has not been spent correctly," MP Schroeder said during a recent address in New York. "The European Parliament does not intend to verify whether European taxpayers’ money could have been used to finance anti-Semitic murderous attacks. Unfortunately, this fits well with European policy in this area." Gee, my surprise meter seems to be stuck at zero. MP Schroeder, a twenty-five-year-old former member of the German Green Party, Damn! First time I heard of the Greens being good for anything. began her political career protesting the war in Kosovo and denouncing globalization. A year ago, MP Schroeder set her sights on an issue long avoided by members of the radical Left - the diverting of some of the 250 million in annual aid for the Arabs of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) to corrupt officials and terrorist groups bent on Israel’s destruction. MP Schroeder managed to initiate an inquiry by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) into the issue despite significant pressure from her colleagues and fellow parliamentarians to ignore it. MP Schroeder has derided her colleagues who wish to ignore the issue of EU money funding terrorism against Jews as "simple-minded anti-Semites." She has also accused EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten of "winking approval of terrorist attacks funded by the EU." In her Ben Gurion University address, MP Schroeder argued, "The primary goal of the EU is the internationalization of the conflict in order to underline the need for its own mediating role," warning that renewed European calls for a multinational force in the region — heard most recently by the head of the largest political bloc in the parliament — combined with heightened levels of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Arab world, could spell disaster for Jews everywhere. "The Palestinians are playing the ugly role of being the cannon fodder for Europe’s hidden war against the U.S.," she adds.
Thank you, Ms. Schroeder. Now if we could just get a few of your fellow citizens to think that way, or just to think, period...
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| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut bskolaut@hotmail.com |
| #5 Phil, you're assuming they wouldn't blame it on us. Look at, for example, Japan and the whole "the US forced Japan into WWII" school of thought. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-26 6:07:38 PM |
| #4 As I just said on my 'blog, one of the things that gets me is whether the Europeans have really asked themselves why they want a war with the US? Is this something they're only going to ask themselves after the full-scale war? |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2003-12-26 5:37:37 PM |
| #3 Robert, get yourself a digital suprise meter. Got me one last month and haven't had a problem so far. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-12-26 5:17:06 PM |
#2 By the way, congrats on your first post. Nice job! Aw, shucks - 'twern't nothin'. Forgot to credit The Puppy Blender™ for the pointer. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2003-12-26 5:14:39 PM |
| #1 Damn. I think my surprise meter's broken. The needle's wrapped around the left-hand peg. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-26 3:25:19 PM |