EU TO ISRAEL: DROP DEAD

EU To Israel: Drop Dead (NYSunBlog)
"Israel should release customs duties of 60 million euros ($72 million) per month to the Palestinian Authority's interim government, the European Union's head of external relations said in an interview on Monday. 'It would be important that the Israelis are paying out what is actually Palestinian money -- the customs duties,' the European Commission's Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in an interview with Austria's daily newspaper Der Standard," Reuters reports.

Captain's Quarters asks, "What is it about Israel that makes the EU think it should honor treaties that the other signatory has long since abandoned? The tax transfers came as part of the Oslo agreement as a way to boost the economic resources of the Palestinians so that they could move towards a two-state settlement and peacefully exist with Israel. However, two intifadas and an election of Hamas to government later, the Oslo accords are a dead letter, and the tax transfers should have died with them." And yet the European diplomat insists Israel gives money to terrorists committed to destroying the Jewish State.