You Don't Say!

New Report Analyses European Aid to Palestinians. Finds Evidence of Foul Play.
Shock. Horror!

The report publishes evidence, which substantiates a compelling connection between European funding and ongoing Palestinian corruption and terrorism. It also highlights the utter failure of European organisations to monitor where these funds have been directed. The details of theft, nepotism, and embezzlement on the part of the PA are supported by incompetence and apathy on the part of European agencies. The FPC has continuously stressed that the PA has soaked up huge sums of donor aid. Since 1993, the European Union alone has contributed over €2 billion directly and indirectly to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Member states have donated a further €2 billion in the same period. FPC's work raises the following major issues, each of which strikes at the very sprit and letter of the European Union's Constitution: - European aid has not reached its intended target - the Palestinian people. It has been diverted towards graft, terrorism and incitement to hatred. - Despite repeated denials from senior European politicians and civil servants, terrorists are on the Palestinian Authority payroll. This includes, in particular, members of the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades who have openly admitted their direct roles in acts of murder. The salaries of these murderers come directly from budgets provided by European government aid, even though the Al-Aksa Brigades have been officially classified as terrorists by Europe. - European taxpayers' funds have not been managed transparently in everything connected with aid to the PA and to the Palestinian people. The facts have been concealed and continue to be concealed from European taxpayers. Mohammed Dahlan, a former PA Interior Minister, was quoted in "The Guardian" in early August 2004. He observed that all of the funds which foreign countries donated to the Palestinian Authority, a total of $5bn, "have gone down the drain and we don't know to where."