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EU will not probe misuse of aid to PA (Chris Patten quote)
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| Nov. 10, 2002
| DOUGLAS DAVIS
Posted on 11/11/2002 10:14:55 AM PST by dennisw
Nov. 10, 2002
EU will not probe misuse of aid to PA By DOUGLAS DAVIS
LONDON European Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten has turned down a leading European legislator who wants an investigation into alleged illegal use of EU aid to the Palestinian Authority. In response to a question by Charles Tanner, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, about charges that European aid to the Palestinians currently running at 10 million euros a month is being diverted to fund terrorist activity, Patten said he wants the issue investigated "like a hole in the head." In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, Tanner said that "if there is to be any chance of securing a lasting peace in the Middle East, we must settle beyond all reasonable doubt such serious allegations of fraudulent and violent misuse of EU taxpayers' money." Otherwise, he said, "aggrieved Israelis will feel entitled to sue the EU." Patten, he said, "should be the first to accept that he has all to gain by clearing the air once and for all." He said he and colleagues in the European Parliament have launched a bipartisan bid to obtain the 157 signatures needed to set up an inquiry "to investigate allegations that EU funds are being illegally diverted to fund terrorist activity against Israeli civilians." "Rather unexpectedly," he wrote, "the European Commission [the cabinet of the European parliament] has resisted this initiative. Commissioner Patten's response to my intervention at Question Time... was that he wanted the issue investigated 'like a hole in the head.' "
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KEYWORDS: authority; eu; palestinian; plo
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posted on
11/11/2002 10:14:56 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: dennisw; monkeyshine; ipaq2000; Lent; veronica; Sabramerican; beowolf; Nachum; BenF; angelo; ...
ping
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posted on
11/11/2002 10:17:00 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
The misuse of aid was a little accident on purpose, I'm sure. Whoops! Damn the luck!
EU = 4th Reich
To: Thud
ping
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posted on
11/11/2002 10:28:33 AM PST
by
Dark Wing
To: dennisw
Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, Is this possible?
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posted on
11/11/2002 10:38:01 AM PST
by
Lent
To: dennisw
I am sure Israelis who have suffered deaths, injuries and lost income from the Euroweenies funding terrorism will sue whomever they please. $ 10,000,000 a month for terrorism. Outrageous!
Also the Mossad should attack the idiots who are funding the terrorism. They can't escape responsibility by playing ostrich.
jerk@***** with their heads in the sand!
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posted on
11/11/2002 10:46:13 AM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: Lent
Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament,Chris Patten worked under John Major and perhaps Thatcher too. As you know he got his rep from managing the handover of Hong Kong to the Communist Chinese. This may have been an inevitable since I think Britain's 99 year lease had run out.
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posted on
11/11/2002 11:02:42 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
10,000,000 bucks a month is a hell of a lot of money to kill 50 jews a month. That is 2 million bucks a jew. This has got the be the most expensive pogram in Europes history.
Hitler was far more cost effective. Europe makes me want to puke.
To: dennisw
Of course not. Just imagine when people find out that EU money is used to kill of Jews. People will be angry and might protest against aiding the Palestinians/terrorists. And those Eurolosers who support Arafat don't want to be confronted that they are a bunch of nazi-scum.
To: Lent
>>Is this possible?
Their "conservatives" might be to the right of Nancy Pelosi, are certainly to the left of, say, Zell Miller or Olympia Snow.
To: American in Israel
so did you mean "program" or "pogrom?" --- a most ironic misspelling:)
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posted on
11/11/2002 1:35:06 PM PST
by
Cosmo
To: dennisw; Lent
Charles Tanner is the Conservative EU parlimentarian. He is the one who requested teh investigation.
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posted on
11/11/2002 1:42:14 PM PST
by
rmlew
To: rmlew
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posted on
11/11/2002 1:56:50 PM PST
by
dennisw
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To: dennisw; monkeyshine; ipaq2000; Lent; veronica; Sabramerican; beowolf; Nachum; BenF; angelo
What to expect from the mongrel bastard who, for the thirty pieces of Peking silver distributed among Maggie Thatcher's family and her lying, looting, thieving cabinet, presided over the handing over into barbaric medieval slavery FRee British Hong Kong's until July 1 1997 seven and a half million FRee British Hong Kong Citizens?
Not one antisemitic EURO-peon worth pissing on if they all catch fire! Starting with Peking Patten and the rest of once-great Britain's sorry shower!
To: dennisw; monkeyshine; ipaq2000; Lent; veronica; Sabramerican; beowolf; Nachum; BenF; angelo
<< This may have been an inevitable since I think Britain's 99 year lease had run out. >>
That's the Goebbelsian lie that Snatcher Thatcher and the rest of that sorry crowd have successfully promulgated.
The Truth is that FRee British Hong Kong was CEDED to the UK and was, until Thatcher and her obscene gang gave it to the Peking psychopaths, as much a part of Britain as is Buckingham Palace!
To: Brian Allen
Hey, Brian, I couldn't quite decide if you were pro-Patten or con-. Can you be more direct next time?
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posted on
11/11/2002 5:34:41 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: dennisw
Awww its just dead Jews, right Chris Patten? No big deal there. All the same I think Israel should sue the EU and demand its entire aid fund lock stock and barrel to compensate Jewish victims of PLO terrorism. Maybe then the EU or what's left of it will think twice about funding terrorists.
bttt
To: dennisw
Patten, he said, "should be the first to accept that he has all to gain by clearing the air once and for all." He said he and colleagues in the European Parliament have launched a bipartisan bid to obtain the 157 signatures needed to set up an inquiry "to investigate allegations that EU funds are being illegally diverted to fund terrorist activity against Israeli civilians."
I'd love to see that, but I doubt it'll go anywhere.
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