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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Mubarak: EU must not cut PA aid
2006-03-14
Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, says cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority will encourage terrorism. Speaking after a meeting in Vienna with Heinz Fischer, the Austrian president, Mubarak said: "The aid is used by the man-in-the-street to buy medicine and to send his children to school. If this money is cut, terrorism will grow and all the [Palestinian] people will suffer."

The 25 EU countries had an informal foreign ministers meeting in Salzburg on Friday. They said aid could be cut to the Palestinian Authority if the Hamas organisation, which won Palestinian elections in January, did not give up violence and recognise Israel's right to exist according to the road map for Middle East peace talks. "Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people and Israel must recognise that it can form a new government. The renunciation of Hamas of violence and its recognition of preceding engagements (in peace talks) is for a second stage," Mubarak said.
Posted by:Fred

#7  riiggghhttt all that aid trickles down to the Paleo on the street ....about 2 cents on the dollar
Posted by: Frank G   2006-03-14 19:59  

#6  While they at it, the EU should take over from USA the financing of Egypt.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-03-14 19:12  

#5  "Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people and Israel must recognise that it can form a new government. The renunciation of Hamas of violence and its recognition of preceding engagements (in peace talks) is for a second stage," Mubarak said

Well there you go. EU money flows freely to Hamas without any concessions on the part of Hamas. No demand to recognize Israel - just a demand for Israel to recognize Hamas as a "gubermint".

"... is for the second stage>" Sometime, way in the future, maybe, if Israel is still around.

The EU will buy into this. I'm hoping the States won't and Canada will hold fast as well. Sorry, but recognition alone is a two-way street.

Eu is folding on Iran, folding on Hamas, folding on free speech and folding on one-law-for-all. WTF?
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412   2006-03-14 18:14  

#4  "Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, says cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority will encourage terrorism." I wonder what would happen if you graphed the rate of Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians as a function of the volume of aid that flows to Palestine.
Posted by: Perfessor   2006-03-14 12:34  

#3  I guess the begging cup going around the rest of the Arab world to support their Pali brothers came back with a dust bunny and 25 cents.
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2006-03-14 11:34  

#2  Yep, 2b-it's the new math. Give aid? Terror increases. Withhold aid? Terror increases.

The new math-the next indispensable invention from the great society of Islam.
Posted by: Jules   2006-03-14 01:18  

#1  says cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority will encourage terrorism

but giving money to terrorists will help curb terrorism. It's logic only a "liberal" could grasp.
Posted by: 2b   2006-03-14 00:08  

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