EU not so “unified” on defunding Palestine

The only thing that should be surprising about this particular news item is that anyone is actually surprised. Leaders of the European Union have been hurriedly huddling to determine how to respond to the invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists. You might think that would be a fairly easy call to make, but you would be mistaken. A proposal was put on the table yesterday to freeze funding for the Palestinian Authority in response, but they couldn’t agree and pushed the decision back until the EU’s foreign affairs ministers meet to discuss it today. But we already knew that support for Israel is not universal among all European nations. And arguments are already breaking out over who specifically would be receiving any of the aid money and how the various parties might be separated in terms of receiving aid. (Politico)Read More