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EU denies giving money to Palestinian security - but emphasizes it gives money to make Jerusalem "Palestinian"noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Jun 0 Like   Tweet   EU denies giving money to Palestinian security - but emphasizes it gives money to make Jerusalem "Palestinian" noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Jun 04:45 AM In the wake of the heavy handed Palestinian security forces attacking protesters over the past three days, people criticized the EU for funding the Palestinian police. In response, the European Union and the Palestinians explained exactly what they fund for Palestinians: The EU does not provide any financial or technical assistance to the Palestinian Security Forces other than technical assistance to the Palestinian Civil Police. Our funding pays salaries for nurses, doctors and teachers, and contributes to the financial support to the poorest Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza. We also finance major infrastructure projects, support civil society and the business sector, notably micro and small enterprises, implement projects to preserve the Palestinian identity of Area C and East Jerusalem, and remain the major partner of UNRWA. The EU has the most robust monitoring mechanism in place to ensure that every Euro is actually spent as intended. We already knew this, but here the EU says it explicitly: they regard all of east Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to be Palestinian territory - not something to be negotiated between the parties. And they will spend a large amount of EU money to oppose Israel's claims on those areas. And it does this even though those areas were never "Palestinian." It isn't exactly being an honest broker. In 2017, the EU budgeted 45 million euros to support "East...Read More Fatah spinning furiously to justify attacking protesters noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Jun 05:30 PM Fatah is releasing statement after statement to deflect or justify the police brutally attacking protesters this weekend. Majed al-Helou, member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council said that "the occupation is the only beneficiary of the state of chaos that some seek to provoke in the Palestinian street, and the Fatah movement is resistant to conspiracies targeting our national project." Muwaffaq Sehwil, secretary of Fatah in Ramallah, said that Fatah will remain vigilant, and will not stand idly by in the face of attempts to shed Palestinian blood, saying that the protesters had "non-national agendas." The...Read More You can't make this up: BDS criticizes Hamas for not being anti-Israel enough noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Jun 02:30 PM Too funny. From Al Monitor: The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement is upset at a Hamas leader for meeting with the Moroccan prime minister due to Morocco having relations with Israel. BDS released an Arabic-language statement on Tuesday to "denounce" Hamas' political head, Ismail Haniyeh, for meeting with Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani. The meeting took place last week during Haniyeh's trip to Morocco, during which he also met with Islamist and opposition parties. "We strongly condemn Haniyeh's meeting with the Moroccan prime minister, which betrays our people and furthers normalization with the occupation and its continuing crimes," BDS said in the statement. Yes, BDS is criticizing Hamas for not adhering to the BDS standards. Putting it another way, if Hamas isn't adhering to BDS, then no one is. BDS' statement went further: The Palestinian National Committee for the Boycott of Israel denounces the meeting of the Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, with Saad Eddine El Othmani, Prime Minister of Morocco and the signatory to the agreement of normalization and betrayal with Israel. At a time when we salute the brotherly Moroccan people for standing against normalization and with the cause of Palestine, its central...Read More 06/27 Links: Hungary takes EU lead in announcing boycott of upcoming Durban conference; Who really cares about the Palestinians?; No, Israel was not the aggressor at June 1967 noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 27 Jun 12:00 PM From Ian: Hungary takes EU lead in announcing boycott of upcoming Durban conference Hungary has become the first EU country to announce it will not attend this year's UN event marking the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Racism in Durban, which featured antisemitic messages. "The Hungarian government declared a zero-tolerance policy against antisemitism and is fully committed to guarantee the safety of the Jewish people that we also consistently represent in the international fora," Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó wrote in a letter to Mark Weitzman, director of government affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "In this spirit, Hungary does not support the Durban process and voted against the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 31 December 2020 deciding on the convening of a high-level meeting on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action," he wrote. The 2001 World Conference Against Racism, is also known as Durban I, after the South African city in which it was held. It was a hotbed of antisemitic and anti-Israel messages and was where the accusation of apartheid against Israel was popularized. An early draft of the resolution adopted at the Governmental Conference at Durban equated Zionism with racism, leading the...Read More Hamas leader greeted as head of state by Lebanese officials noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Jun 09:45 AM Iran's Mehr News writes: The head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has travelled to Lebanon. Heading a high-ranking Hamas delegation, Haniyeh arrived in Beirut on Sunday afternoon. According to an earlier statement by the Hamas bureau in Lebanon, during the visit, Haniyeh will meet with the leaders of the three branches of the Lebanese government, senior Lebanese officials as well as the leaders of Palestinian groups. Ramallah News adds that Haniyeh met with the "Presidency of the Republic, the Presidency of Parliament and the Presidency of the Government." It is clear that Haniyeh is being treated as a national leader by the Lebanese government. Which makes one wonder why the world - including the US - has been sending money to bolster the Lebanese Army. * * * * * * ...Read More More photos of Islamic Jihad, Hamas recruiting children noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 27 Jun 07:10 AM Palestinian terror groups have been recruiting children as soldiers from the very beginning of Palestinian Arab nationalism, as this famous 1970 Life cover shows. There were numerous suicide bombings by children during the second intifada, and more attempts that weren't successful. This year, some of the "children" killed in the May war were identified as members of Hamas and other groups. It continues this year, as the Islamic Jihad and Hamas summer camps are in full session and they are proudly publishing their photos. Hamas: Islamic Jihad seems to prefer to train their children while they inhale smoke from burning tires. Yet the world media and human rights NGOs are silent. There is nothing about Hamas or Islamic Jihad on HRW's Child Soldiers page or UNICEF's site on the topic. Here's another case of the "Palestine exception," where Palestinian...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company