| Nice of them to choose sides. |
“A (Palestinian) national unity government will have to respond to the Quartet’s principles,” Benita Ferrero-Waldner told reporters in Amman, a day after talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. “We have never abandoned the Palestinian people ... and even if the (unity) government did not meet these requirements we will not abandon the Palestinian people,” she said.
Ferrero-Waldner was on Wednesday in the West Bank town of Ramallah, where she visited a bank disbursing EU social allowances to individual Palestinians set up last year by the European Commission, at the request of the European Council and the Quartet. “We are reaching out to one-quarter of the Palestinian population,” she said in Amman of social allowances handed out to Palestinian people who have suffered loss of income as a result of the international sanctions. “They absolutly need it in this very difficult moment ... and we are trying to help them in this very difficult situation,” she added.
| This of course takes the very pressure off the Paleos that's required to get them to change their ways (assuming that's possible). As long as the cash rolls in it doesn't matter from where, or even to a considerable extent how. Mashaal and his pals will always find a way to finance the Widows Ammunition Fund. The EU giving away cash to 'individual' Paleos simply makes it easier for Hamas to stay in power. |