No money for Palestine!

The European Union has decided to provide an additional 40 million euros in aid to the Palestinian Territories. This has to stop, writes the political news magazine Elsevier: "A strange decision: Brussels already transfers around 500 million euros annually - although for years this has not led to a single advance in the Palestinian question. Many billions have disappeared into the quagmire of Palestinian corruption, uncertainty and violence. To this day the Palestinians have not been able to transform their ambitions for a functioning national state into reality. It may be that Israel intentionally blocks economic development here and there, but that does not explain why the Gaza Strip is such a chaos for example, while under Israeli control it flourished. The blame lies with the Palestinians themselves. ... The Palestinian Territories are a bottomless pit. How much more of the European taxpayers' money must be tossed into it?"

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