Courtesy of the EU, from the mouth of one of their own Legislators
European Union Parliament member Ilka Schroeder delivered an address entitled, "The European Union, Israel, and Palestinian Terrorism" at the Center for German Studies of Ben Gurion University on Monday."The Europeans," explained MP Schroeder, "supported the Palestinian Authority with the aim of becoming its main sponsor, and through this, challenge the U.S. and present themselves as the future global power. Therefore, the Al-Aksa Intifada should be understood as a proxy war between Europe and the United States."
Holy shiite!
"It is an open secret within the European Parliament that EU aid to the Palestinian Authority has not been spent correctly," MP Schroeder said during a recent address in New York. "The European Parliament does not intend to verify whether European taxpayers' money could have been used to finance anti-Semitic murderous attacks. Unfortunately, this fits well with European policy in this area."
The lack of accountability HAD aroused my suspicions, but I'd thought the EU were plain suckers for Arafat: A bug, not a feature.
But this is an EU MP! I thought they were appointed? What's going on?
MP Schroeder, a twenty-five-year-old former member of the German Green Party, began her political career protesting the war in Kosovo and denouncing globalization. A year ago, MP Schroeder set her sights on an issue long avoided by members of the radical Left - the diverting of some of the 250 million in annual aid for the Arabs of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) to corrupt officials and terrorist groups bent on Israel's destruction.
Ah, a benificiary of the ClueBat(c). To a liberal leftist, the only thing worse than a vocal conservative is a reformed Liberal. I wouldn't expect her to be around for long.
In her Ben Gurion University address, MP Schroeder argued, "The primary goal of the EU is the internationalization of the conflict in order to underline the need for its own mediating role," warning that renewed European calls for a multinational force in the region - heard most recently by the head of the largest political bloc in the parliament - combined with heightened levels of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Arab world, could spell disaster for Jews everywhere. "The Palestinians are playing the ugly role of being the cannon fodder for Europe's hidden war against the U.S.," she adds.
Ah. NOW things make sense. One of the good things to come out of the Bush Roadmap was the realization that Arafat was part of the problem, not the solution, and thus had to be sidelined by negotiation with a Palestinian Prime Minister. Arafat responded by surreptitiously torpedoing the Prime Ministers appointed to supplant him.
But Arafat was not the only one cut out of the loop.
The Roadmap, seriously flawed thought it is, is now the only game in town due to both sides supposedly 100% agreeing to it, and everyone knows it. Sharon has verbally said he's behind the Roadmap, and the charade Arafat played with the Prime Ministers is an implicit admission on his part that he cannot viably reject the roadmap, but has to play along and game the system, or else be turned into road-kill. While the Israelis and the Palestinians are the primary parties that must make the Roadmap work, the Roadmap itself is President George W. Bush's brainchild. Being the one who came up with the Framework for successfully resolving a conflict in a region that has defied a solution for decades would be an incredible achievement.
It would also be a humiliating kick in the face to the Euros who, accustomed to believing that they alone possess the sophistication and diplomatic experience to pull off such a coup, would have to yield the victory to a moron. Of course, it would utterly kill them to SAY that: Peace prizes would be duly awarded to the Israeli and Palestinian PMs who signed on, but don't count on Bush getting one (citing Iraq as the disqualifying factor). The muffled booms you'll hear would be weasel heads exploding.
Would they really surreptitiously throw a monkey wrench into the works to deny the laurel wreath to Bush and continue screwing the hated Jooos by sending money to Arafat and looking the other way while the latter diverts half to his bank account and half to his terror organizations? Their creatively loose accounting for those monies, while raising lots of issues about the money they'd be sending to Iraq, tells me, not "Yes", but "Hell, yes!"
Posted by ptah at December 27, 2003 11:13 AM