Israel 'has wrecked £11m EU schemes' by Stephen Castle 2:03pm Wed Jan 23 '02 address: Brussels rael was blamed yesterday for destroying more than Euros 17m (£11m) of European Union-funded property in Palestine, including a school building programme, the airport, a seaport, broadcasting studios and an irrigation scheme. print article       Israel 'has wrecked £11m EU schemes'   By Stephen Castle in Brussels 23 January 2002 The Independant http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=115883 Israel was blamed yesterday for destroying more than Euros 17m (£11m) of European Union-funded property in Palestine, including a school building programme, the airport, a seaport, broadcasting studios and an irrigation scheme. Chris Patten, the EU foreign affairs commissioner, said he was "shocked and astounded at what is happening", adding: "We ask whether it really contributes to security if everything we try to support with EU assistance is destroyed." EU officials have not ruled out asking Israel for compensation and say they will raise the issue with Aerial Sharon's government, although privately they accept there is little prospect of getting money back. One Israeli source said no formal communication had yet been sent by the EU and therefore the figures for destruction were impossible to check. However, he added that this is a "price that has to be paid because of the war in the territories; Israel is paying a much greater price." According to the list, compiled by EU member states and the European Commission, the most costly destruction was at Gaza international airport, which suffered an estimated Euros 9.3m of damage.The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation in Ramallah was wrecked over the weekend, with Euros 3.3m of damage.Other damage included a schools construction scheme funded by the commission (Euros 23,000), and a Belgian-sponsored irrigation project (Euros 11,000). The European Commission and the EU member states are the authority's main donors; the European Community alone spent Euros 467m in supporting the Palestinians between 1999 and 2001. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=115883 news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east... add your comments Source file

talk about a bad investment... by notimportant 8:57pm Thu Jan 24 '02 print comment I'm not going to debate what was done was wrong or right, but i must say that the europeans and the americans should stop giving monetary support to sides of people killing eachother. add your comments

what a waste... by anonymous 2:31pm Sat Jan 26 '02 print comment I agree, but go even further, all donations/support (monetary, weapons, etc) should be stopped of both Israel and Palistine, and use the support as incentives to piece. add your comments

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha by NewYorker 7:50am Sun Jan 27 '02 print comment Here's one person who finds it hilarious. There you have these Europeans giing money to the wicked arabian beasts, then the donkeys pick a fight, lose (The wicked arabian beasts always lose - look at 1967,1948, the crusades. They are a bunch of losers with an extraordinarily worthless culture. And now the Europeans want their money back, how about you stop giving money to the donkeys, and wholeheartedly join in the campaign to crush the satanic followers of Mohammed add your comments

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha by NewYorker 7:51am Sun Jan 27 '02 print comment Here's one person who finds it hilarious. There you have these Europeans giing money to the wicked arabian beasts, then the donkeys pick a fight, lose (The wicked arabian beasts always lose - look at 1967,1948, the crusades. They are a bunch of losers with an extraordinarily worthless culture. And now the Europeans want their money back, how about you stop giving money to the donkeys, and wholeheartedly join in the campaign to crush the satanic followers of Mohammed add your comments

Response to Ha ha ha ha by Punish the Oslo criminals 8:26am Sun Jan 27 '02 print comment I mean really, those wicked arabian beasts deserve our pity. Let me give you a second, the other day Rafsanhani, the wacky and adulterous former leader of Iran, said that when the the islamic bomb is developed then they will use it against israel, since one bomb can take out israel, and that Israel doesn't have enough bombs to take out the muslim world. So let's test it out blow up mecca, median, and those other whorehouses and let's see if all the muslims are able to survive. As well, Abu Amar (named after his favourite nazi-killer) but then again this being a nationalistic, socialistic site the editors must feel great afinity to such ideas, said he is willing to sacrafice every drop of blood. So let's kill them all, put them out of their misery. As regards you calling them wicked. Wicked is an expression of behaviour, you have to look at the root cause. The root cause is evil. they are evil people that's why they are poerty stricken, that's why they are suicidal, that why they follow the satnic teachings of Mohammed. They are plain and simple evil. Thank god that a site liek this exists where I can air my opinion. add your comments

Ha ha ha ha by NewYorker 11:52am Sun Jan 27 '02 print comment Dont worry about that girl, if Israel doesnt have enough nuclear weapons, the great King George, will provide plenty. Long Live the King! And if that is not enough, we will start another crusade to slaughter each and every one of those wicky arbanian beasts. If it were not for them being so wicky, I would say we should enslave them like we did the blacks, and if they were not so stanitic, we would push them into concentration camps, and experiment biological weapons on them, like the wicky arbanian beasts they are. add your comments

pardon me by pardon me 3:41pm Sun Jan 27 '02 print comment Pardon me for disagreeing with you but by openly advocating a crusade of genocide and destruction you're not adding anything useful to the crisis that is gripping the middle east. your language is one of absolute barbarity and cruelty. In that you seem to differ in no aspect from the desperate people who blow themselves up as human bombs because their misery and hatred has blinded them to the facts that we all live on this planet regardless of what language we speak and how we look. For pity's sake, when will we learn that we are all part of a big family, the humans, and that we have only one planet to live on. I would strongly urge you to revise your thoughts of slaughter and mayhem and try to envision a world in which we can all live in peace, love and justice. We have only this one planet. Let's try to make the effort of saving it. add your comments

i find it sick... by doesn'tmatter 6:06pm Sun Jan 27 '02 print comment ...that people comment about the mass killing of people like that. add your comments

To achieve piece... by NewYorker 4:52am Mon Jan 28 '02 print comment Piece can only be achieved by getting rid of the wicky arbanian beasts, and by no other means. Sharon knows what I am talking about, and King George soon will. The only way to bring piece is through order and the only way to bring order is through military might! That is what the US specializes in and why we live more pieceful then Israel or the Arbanian beasts. Sharon is correcting the problem by killing off those arbanian beasts. add your comments