MP Ilka Schroeder
Posted on 12/23/2003 2:20:52 PM PST by anotherview
EU Parliament Member: Intifada is European Proxy War Against America
21:22 Dec 23, '03 / 28 Kislev 5764
EU Member of Parliament Ilka Schroeder delivered an address entitled, “The European Union, Israel, and Palestinian Terrorism” at the Center for German Studies of Ben Gurion University on Monday.
“The Europeans,” explained MP Schroeder, “supported the Palestinian Authority with the aim of becoming its main sponsor, and through this challenge the U.S. and present themselves as the future global power. Therefore, the Al-Aksa Intifada should be understood as a proxy war between Europe and the United States.”
"It is an open secret within the European Parliament that EU aid to the Palestinian Authority has not been spent correctly," MP Schroeder said during a recent address in New York. “The European Parliament does not intend to verify whether European taxpayers' money could have been used to finance anti-Semitic murderous attacks. Unfortunately, this fits well with European policy in this area."
MP Schroeder, a twenty five year old member of the German Green Party, began her political career protesting the war in Kosovo and denouncing globalization. A year ago MP Schroeder set her sights on an issue long avoided by members of the radical Left - the diverting of some of the 250 million in annual aid for the Arabs of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) to corrupt officials and terrorist groups bent on Israel's destruction.
MP Schroeder managed to initiate an inquiry by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) into the issue despite significant pressure from her colleagues and fellow parliamentarians to ignore the issue. MP Schroeder has derided her colleagues who wish to ignore the issue of EU money funding terrorism against Jews as "simple-minded anti-Semites." She has also accused EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten of "winking approval of terrorist attacks funded by the EU."
In her Ben Gurion University address, MP Schroeder claimed the issue of the EU funding terrorist groups points to a broader European goal, namely, to use the Middle East conflict to challenge US hegemony.
"The primary goal of the EU is the internationalization of the conflict in order to underline the need for its own mediating role," she argues, warning that renewed European calls for a multinational force in the region - heard most recently by the head of the largest political bloc in the parliament - combined with heightened levels of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Arab world, could spell disaster for Jews everywhere. "The Palestinians are playing the ugly role of being the cannon fodder for Europe's hidden war against the U.S.," she adds.
While MP Schroeder's call for accountability in EU funding was supported by nearly one quarter of the 626-member parliament, she appears grimly convinced that her efforts to expose anti-Zionism, which she sees as Europe's polite version of anti-Semitism, has come to naught. MP Schroeder has been embraced by many Jewish groups in Europe and the U.S. and decided to visit Israel for her first time in order to further research the E.U.’s role in the region.
"There is no difference in the consciousness of an average member of the European Parliament and an average German peace demonstrator, and I consider this to be a mixture of naivete, moralism, anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionism and an altogether serious danger," she said during her U.S. speaking tour. "It is against these trends that my efforts are directed."
Published: 19:49 December 23, 2003 Last Update: 21:22 December 23, 2003
MP Ilka Schroeder
25 years old and already has a real-worldview. Very encouraging.
It is a "proxy" war, but for others too...Saudi, Iran, etc. Natural allies of the French and Germans in this regard.
Never thought of this in a Eurocrat angle, but makes a lot of sense.
Plus the EU has poor oversight on the money...makes it easier for Arafat to kick back some to her fellow Eurocrats.
Uh, this depends upon how you define Europe. The UK, Spain, Poland and Italy suported and continue to support the war. Europe is a good bit more than just France and Germany. It is hard to use a one size fits all statement about Europe and as such any blanket statement about Europe or the Europeans usually doesn't have that much bearing to the true reality.
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