From: George Sherwood 

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:50:36 +0000, Adam wrote:

> George Sherwood wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:14:28 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
>>
>>
>>>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2017137,00.html
>>>
>>>"But the EU - the most generous donor to the Palestinians
with funding of
>>>œ600 million a year - decided yesterday that it would continue
financing the
>>>Palestinian Authority while Hamas attempts to form a government."
>>>
>>>Then:
>>>
>>>"The White House has ordered an urgent review of all funding to the
>>>Palestinian Authority, which amounted to about œ39.6 million
last year."
>>>
>>>ROF,L!!  So the EU gives 15 times as much.  Guess how much influence they
>>>have?  15:1 a good number?
>>>
>>>You think they give a flying fuck?  They're quite likely to
tell you what to
>>>do with such a pittance.  They would probably regard it as an insult to
>>>accept such a paltry sum.
>>
>>
>> Again your anti-Americanism blinds you to the truth.  Here is a chart that
>> shows EU $600 million and US $400 million.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4663742.stm
>>
>> George
>
> Minor pointlet :
>
> The EU tends to give the money, where the US has lent a lot of it.
>
> Which accounts for why the largest sum on the US side (175M) is old debt
> being rolled over vs new aid whereas there is no such sum on the EU side.

Loans that probably have no chance of being repaid.  Just different
systems.  Anyway I am not going to argue about the type of money, but both
groups give quite a bit to the PA.  Right now I don't see much difference
in the positions of the two groups, although I suspect the EU will find a
way to change their position without Hamas changing anything on their part.

George

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