Big Balls To Them
The EU grows a pair and says no to aiding the Palestinian unity government but plays it safe by bypassing the government and providing aid directly.
Since then, the EU has redirected its funding, which reached 700 million euros in 2006, through a special mechanism to help the neediest people while bypassing the government to avoid contact with Hamas — which is considers a terrorist organization.
At the Brussels press conference, Ferrero-Waldner said this temporary mechanism would continue but offered Fayyad technical assistance to get his finance ministry in order.
She also repeated the international demands that the Palestinian government renounce violence, formally recognize Israel’s right to exist and abide by former agreements. Ferrero-Waldner said until that happened the EU would only deal with what it considered to be Western-friendly members of the new Palestinian Fatah-Hamas unity government, which took power in March this year.
Via Yourish.com