Israel Matzav

Outrageous: EU demanding compensation for illegal 'Palestinian' structures in E1

Shavua tov, a good week to everyone once again. This is the first live post of the evening. Mrs. Carl and I and most of our children spent the Sabbath in Beit El, which is in Samaria as a pre-Pesach treat from Mrs. Carl's parents. By my count, this is bli ayin hara the 12th year that they have taken us away for the Sabbath before Pesach (two Sabbaths before in the years when Pesach starts on Saturday night).

If the Europeans want to know why they have ZERO influence in this country, this story might be a place to start looking. The European Union has demanded compensation for the destruction by Israel earlier this week of eighteen tin huts that were housing 'Palestinians' on land that is not zoned for 'Palestinian' building (in a word, squatters). The land in question is in E-1, the strip between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim upon which Israel has talked time and time again of building, each time being stopped by the Americans. According to the Europeans, they 'partially funded' those 18 tin huts, and they have demanded compensation from Israel for their destruction.

EU officials demanded financial compensation from Israel to Brussels in response to the demolition of three of the structures, Belgian news service EurActiv reported.

“We should ask for compensation from Israel whenever EU-funded humanitarian aid projects are destroyed,” EurActiv quoted an anonymous EU diplomat as saying.

“We will raise this issue with the relevant Israeli authorities,” Maja Kocijancic, a spokesperson for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, told EurActiv.

We ought to give one of two responses. Either we should simply tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine, or we should tell them that we are setting it off against the damages from European-financed 'Palestinian' terror and they still have a long way to go. I favor the first solution - I don't want to acknowledge that they have any kind of claim. 

Labels: E-1, European anti-Semitism, European foreign aid, European hypocrisy, European Union, financing terror, Palestinian terrorism

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:19 AM