Posted on 02/01/2006 4:55:13 AM PST by unionblue83
An influential foreign policy advisory group recommends that the U.S. and European Union continue to fund the Palestinian Authority despite the terrorist group's landslide victory in the January 25 Palestinian elections.
The International Crisis Group (ICG) in a press release announcing its January 18 study entitled Enter Hamas: The Challenges of Political Integration bemoan the fact that both the U.S. and E.U. bar contacts with Hamas, deny funding to projects with Hamas-run municipalities, and have threatened to halt assistance to the PA if Hamas joins it. This attitude has had several, essentially negative, results: estranging Palestinians from Western donors; losing touch with an increasingly large segment of the population; jeopardising projects; and reducing accountability. Meanwhile, Hamas participates in elections without having to fulfil [sic] any prior conditions. The ICG changed neither its report nor press release after the Wednesday poll.
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What crap! The Palis have been the international equivalent of welfare queens for decades. And what has it gotten the US (or the world for that matter)? More terrorism and more Islamic fundamentalism. Time for some tough love. If they want to entertain fantasies of a radical Islamist Caliphate that takes over Jerusalem and kills all the Jews in Palestine, let them fund it. Most of us live in the real world where we suffer the consequences for bizarre behavior--I don't have any sympathy for those who don't.
Further, these weak-kneed clowns at the ICG have obviously never had a loved one blown up by a suicide bomber.
Sheesh.
Among ICG board members are George Soros, Brzezinski and Wesley Clark. Check http://www.crisisgroup.org
Among ICG board members are George Soros, Brzezinski and Wesley Clark. Check http://www.crisisgroup.org
International Crisis Group's Board
Lord Patten of Barnes Chairman, Crisis Group Former European Commissioner for External Relations, UK
Gareth Evans President & CEO Former Foreign Minister of Australia
Executive Committee
Morton Abramowitz Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
Emma Bonino Member of European Parliament Former European Commissioner
Cheryl Carolus Former South African High Commissioner to the UK Former Secretary General of the ANC
Maria Livanos Cattaui* Former Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce
Yoichi Funabashi Chief Diplomatic Correspondent & Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
William Shawcross Journalist and author, UK
Stephen Solarz* Former U.S. Congressman
George Soros Chairman, Open Society Institute
William O. Taylor Chairman Emeritus, The Boston Globe, U.S.
*Vice-Chairs
Adnan Abu-Odeh Former Political Adviser to King Abdullah II and to King Hussein; former Jordan Permanent Representative to UN
Kenneth Adelman Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Ersin Arioglu Member of Parliament, Turkey; Chairman Emeritus, Yapi Merkezi Group
Diego Arria Former Ambassador of Venezuela to the UN
Zbigniew Brzezinski Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President
Kim Campbell Secretary-General, Club of Madrid; former Prime Minister of Canada
Victor Chu Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong
Wesley Clark Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Pat Cox Former President of European Parliament
Ruth Dreifuss Former President, Switzerland
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
Mark Eyskens Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Leslie H. Gelb Former President of Council on Foreign Relations, U.S.
Bronislaw Geremek Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Frank Giustra Chairman, Endeavour Financial, Canada
I.K. Gujral Former Prime Minister of India
Carla Hills Former U.S. Secretary of Housing; former U.S. Trade Representative
Lena Hjelm-Wallén Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, Sweden
James C.F. Huang Deputy Secretary General to the President, Taiwan
Swanee Hunt Founder and Chair of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace; former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
Asma Jahangir UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions; former Chair Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
Shiv Vikram Khemka Founder and Executive Director (Russia) of SUN Group, India
James V. Kimsey Founder and Chairman Emeritus of America Online, Inc
Bethuel Kiplagat Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kenya
Wim Kok Former Prime Minister, Netherlands
Trifun Kostovski Member of Parliament, Macedonia; founder of Kometal Trade Gmbh
Elliott F. Kulick Chairman, Pegasus International, U.S.
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman Novelist and journalist, U.S.
Todung Mulya Lubis Human rights lawyer and author, Indonesia
Ayo Obe Chair of Steering Committee of World Movement for Democracy, Nigeria
Christine Ockrent Journalist and author, France
Friedbert Pflüger Foreign Policy Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag
Victor M. Pinchuk Member of Parliament, Ukraine; founder of Interpipe Scientific and Industrial Production Group
Surin Pitsuwan Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Thailand
Itamar Rabinovich President of Tel Aviv University; former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. and Chief Negotiator with Syria
Fidel V. Ramos Former President of the Philippines
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen Former Secretary General of NATO; former Defence Secretary, UK
Mohamed Sahnoun Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Africa
Ghassan Salamé Former Minister, Lebanon; Professor of International Relations, Paris
Salim A. Salim Former Prime Minister of Tanzania; former Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity
Douglas Schoen Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, U.S.
Pär Stenback Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finland
Thorvald Stoltenberg Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Grigory Yavlinsky Chairman of Yabloko Party and its Duma faction, Russia
Uta Zapf Chairperson of the German Bundestag Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation
Ernesto Zedillo Former President of Mexico; Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Chairmen Emeritus
Martti Ahtisaari Former President, Finland
George J. Mitchell Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
The only thing I want any of my tax dollars used for which might involve "palestinians" would be for bombs to drop on them.
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