Euro Appeasement Reaches New Depths
Charles Johnson
Wed Oct 5, 2005 at 11:48 am PDT • Views: 223
The European Union is preparing to give Hamas and Fatah another quarter of a billion dollars: EU announces strategy to help build Palestinian state.
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Commission announced ambitious plans to help build a politically and economically viable Palestinian state, including injecting hundreds of millions of euros in extra aid.
The aim is to use the opportunity created by Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and put in place a comprehensive medium-term assistance strategy, external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said.
“We intend to be a major partner in a viable Palestinian state,” she told reporters in Brussels. “We should not let the chance provided by the Gaza withdrawal slip through our fingers.”
She said that if the withdrawal led to implementation of the roadmap peace plan and other donors also came forward, she would urge EU states to earmark the Palestinians a further 200-300 million euros (240-360 million dollars).
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