February 1, 2008

4 Responses to The EU is out to get us.

1. Laura says:

   February 1, 2008 at 4:39 pm

   “As a member of Parliament’s delegation to the Palestinian Legislative Council, I have been trying to work out why, when we call for an end to settlement building, the Israelis ignore us and we do nothing. Why, when we call for the removal of the checkpoints, the Israelis ignore us and we do nothing. Why, when we call to an end to the collective punishment of people in Gaza, the Israelis ignore us and we do nothing”,

   I have been trying to work out why Europe ignores the qassams and the plight of the people of Sderot.

   “The Palestinian people will believe in peace when peace brings them something”

   The Israelis will believe in peace when the Arabs stop becoming a threat to their existence.
2. Charles Martel says:

   February 2, 2008 at 11:39 am

   The EU, led by their largely socialist dhimmi MEPs, is a lost cause. Following, is an exchange I had a couple of years ago with one of the worst offenders, Carolyn Lucas of the Green party in the UK.

   My initial letter:

   Recent articles in the media have suggested that the EU may decide to continue funding the Palestinian Authority, either directly or indirectly, notwithstanding the fact that Hamas is a declared terrorist group and responsible for the murder and maiming of hundreds of civilians.

   Such a decision, if taken by the EU, would be an unconscionable reward for terror and surely contribute to a worsening of the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis.

   It would also represent an abuse of power and of taxing authority by European Parliamentarians who should consider carefully whether citizens of good faith wish to see their tax monies donated to groups that espouse violence and terror.

   I wish to make clear my opposition – in the strongest possible terms – to any continued funding of the Palestinian Authority or its proxies while Hamas is in power.

   Yours faithfully,

   Lucas’ response via her assistant:

   Thank you for your email which Caroline has asked me to respond to. As far as she is aware, no EU funding has ever been made available to support terrorism in Palestine. Caroline believes that the EU has a crucial role to play in providing financial support to the people of Palestine who face extreme levels of poverty, often worse than that in sub-Saharan Africa.

   The EU is the biggest contributor of aid to the Palestinians. Last May it announced new aid worth 250 million euros (320 million dollars) to help create a viable Palestinian state, after the PA’s landmark elections in January 2005. Among other things, aid will help provide general basic education, through teacher training, vocational and technical education to enhance the opportunities of Palestinian refugees at all levels of the education system. In March 2005 a 2 year investigation concluded that there was no evidence of EU aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) being used to finance armed attacks or unlawful activities. As a result of the investigation the EU is going to assist the PA in improving its internal accounting procedures so that any future accusations can be investigated more quickly.

   Caroline believes that education is an important tool in the campaign for peace in the Middle East and will continue to support the right of all Palestinians, regardless of religion, to live without fear of persecution. Her position has always been very clear – that peace depends on mutual recognition. She is wholly opposed to violence and believes that politicians and commentators who focus solely on Palestinian violence are missing the point. For example, during the recent election period more Palestinians were killed in one week by the Israeli authorities than were killed by Hammas throughout. State violence must be condemned as vociferously and meaningfully as that perpetrated by individuals or organised civil groups. And Caroline agrees that genuine peace talks can only begin once a Palestinian State has been recognised.

   Thank you for taking the time to raise this matter with Caroline.

   Kind regards,

   My reply:

   Thank you for replying to my email on behalf of Ms. Lucas.

   Frankly, your letter contains so many errors of omission and commission, it is difficult to know where to begin. While it is true for example, that many of the Palestinians live in poverty, this is largely due to the well-documented misappropriation of billions of Euros and Dollars in foreign aid by corrupt Palestinian officials and the redirection of foreign aid monies to fund the production and import of weapons in the Palestinian territories.

   Further, as money is fungible it is not necessary to show that EU monies have been specifically used to finance Palestinian terrorism (although there is much evidence of this); every Euro provided to the Palestinians for ostensibly non-violent activities is a Euro that is freed to pay for violent attacks against civilians.

   The educational aid that you cite as being a cornerstone of European assistance to the Palestinians has also been shown to finance schoolbooks that deny Israel ‘s right to exist and incite Palestinian children to hate Jews and take up armed struggle. Does Ms. Lucas take pride in this application of European funding?

   You argue that Ms. Lucas is “wholly opposed to violence” and cite as an example of moral equivalence, the fact that more Palestinians were killed in one week by Israeli authorities than by Hamas. I wonder if Ms. Lucas is aware that during 2005 alone, there were nearly 3,000 attempted terrorist attacks launched by Palestinians against Israelis and hundreds of rockets fired into Israeli population centres. Would Ms. Lucas seek to prevent the British government from defending her and her family against these type of attacks if they were a daily occurrence in Oxfordshire?

   Finally, your email on behalf of Ms. Lucas is essentially retrospective and fails to address the central point of my letter, that of the future role and responsibility of the EU in potentially funding a declared terrorist group – one that is misogynistic, openly hostile to any egalitarian societal arrangement with non-Muslims, and espouses genocide for homosexuals and Jews. Indeed, one must wonder if Ms. Lucas has read the Hamas Charter.

   Please thank Ms. Lucas for the time she has invested to address my concerns. The exchange has been most illuminating.

   Yours sincerely,
3. David BenAriel says:

   February 4, 2008 at 7:41 pm

   The German-EU will occupy Jerusalem and pollute the Holy Land of Israel.

   EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews

   Woe to Ariel! (Jerusalem to Suffer EU Occupation)
4. Bereny says:

   February 4, 2008 at 8:18 pm

   The European Union is a tricky construction, an institutional engineering masterpiece. You may call it Evil, you may also know it’s Edom. As the largest state-building project in modern history and second only after the Roman Empire, it was sold to the Europeans as a measure that reduces the public sector’s presence in people’s lives. They said there will be less government, no more borders, no more need to change currency from Spain to France to Germany and now to many more countries, you’ll have less and unified laws, you’ll be free, the economy will boom, etc.

   In reality Europeans got a super-state over their heads and not only. The EU infact is composed of different European Institutions. The European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court. These institutions however do not correspond to their traditional, national counterparts.

   The most striking difference starts with the European Parliament. It is not like other parliaments in Europe, in as much as, even if it is elected by universal vote and with proportional representation, it has no legislative power. Yes, you’ve heard it well: It has no legislative power. It is a “parliament” only by denomination. In reality it is an exclusive and expensive club, with some influence, run and maintained by the European tax-payer.

   The legislative body in the European Union is the Council. Now, you may ask who are the councilors. Well, the short answer is, they are people nominated by the governments of the member states. That means two things. One is that in Europe really are the governments that legislate, not the national parliaments. Two is that the governments of the member states use the EU to legislate, bypassing their national parliaments.

   Government controlling other then the executive branch of power is of course nothing new, especially in Europe. We’ve seen it before and it is called totalitarism. Hitler’s Germany, Franco’s Spain, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Soviet Union come to mind.

   So, when European members of parliament criticize Israel, we shall answer: “Ah yeah? Why don’t you mind your own dirty business?”