The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...has not done enough to ensure that its funding to the Paleostinian Authority does not support incitement to violence and human rights
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violations, a study published on Tuesday argued.
"Despite existing anti-terrorism regulations, the EU has not addressed funding by the Paleostinian Authority to families of convicted holy warriors as well as the persistent issue of incitement to hatred and widespread antisemitism in Paleostinian textbooks," wrote researchers Tommaso Virgili and Paul Stott, who previously authored a report on hidden Moslem Brüderbund networks in Europe.
The study was commissioned by B’nai Brith International, a Jewish non-profit that also advocates on behalf of Israel in the United States and abroad.
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The report slammed the EU for failing to ensure accountability in the Paleostinian Authority education system. Paleostinian textbooks have long been assailed by critics as containing hate speech and incitement, including by a 2021 EU study.
Brussels is the PA’s largest single donor and helps pay the salaries of many of its civil servants, including those who design PA curricula. It is also the second-largest donor to the United Nations
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Works and Reliefs Agency — which supports Paleostinian refugees — sending over $157 million in aid in 2021.
"For many years, the EU has been criticized for failing to align its practice with principles with regard to the Paleostinian Authority and Paleostinian nonprofits," B’nai Brith director Alan Schneider said during a webinar inaugurating the report.
The report also charged that the EU does not uphold its own values when it continues to fund the PA, given the PA’s practice of paying stipends to the families of those imprisoned or killed by Israeli forces. Critics call the practice "pay for slay," as the funds can also go to Paleostinians convicted of brutal acts of terror.
The EU for too long "turned a blind eye towards the practice of payments to the families of convicted terrorists, praised as deaders," said European parliamentarian David Lega during the report’s launch.
The researchers argued that Brussels should impose conditions on its aid to the PA and consider adopting legislation that bans aid as long as Ramallah continues paying out stipends to Paleostinian security prisoners and their families.
While Israeli officials have consistently condemned the prisoner stipends and alleged incitement in textbooks, the government has also sought to bolster the PA, seen as more moderate than its Islamist Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, rivals, including by increasing international aid to its rapidly draining coffers.
As recently as November, Israel lobbied international donors in Oslo — including the European Union — to step up support for the Paleostinian Authority.
The report elided any mention of Ramallah’s policy of security coordination with Israel, in which Paleostinian Authority forces work with Israeli intelligence to crack down on Hamas and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
holy warriors in the West Bank.