Real Politics
>>…It should go without saying that it is not enough for European foreign policy chief Javier Solana to say, after visiting Sderot, that the ban on direct aid to Hamas will continue. What about the $1.2 billion a year in assistance the Palestinians are receiving, much of it from Europe? One US observer, David Frum, suggested reducing Palestinian aid one million dollars per Kassam. If not, he suggests, „if the world continues a policy of sending money to the Palestinian territories, no matter what the Palestinian government does – Israel, Gaza and the world stand just one well-aimed rocket away from war.“
Frum is right. Hamas is desperately trying to kill enough Israelis to trigger all-out war. Yet European, and even US aid to the Palestinians remains untouched. Hamas will not take its international ostracization seriously if the Palestinians pay no serious diplomatic price and financial aid continues to pour in…<<
