EU Furious: Terrorist Attacks It Funded Didn’t Kill Only Jews

“Operations that end up killing non-Jews, even if the latter carry Israeli citizenship, cannot and will not be tolerated.”

Brussels, July 21 – European Commission officials voiced their shock and displeasure today at reports that monies they had provided to Palestinian “human rights” groups fronting for violent, antisemitic militant groups ended up paying for shootings, bombings, and other incidents against Jewish Israelis that resulted in the deaths of non-Jews, as well.

Senior figures in the foreign policy arm of the European Union expressed outrage Wednesday upon discovering the phenomenon has persisted despite numerous previous occasions on which the same officials vowed to reform the funding process to better address the funding of Palestinian terrorism, following reports by watchdog groups such as NGO Monitor that the flow of money has continued even as the ties between the grantees and terrorists became more and more obvious.

“This is unacceptable,” declared EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. “Our funding guidelines dictate strict adherence to specific purposes, with robust auditing and reporting mechanisms to ensure compliance with our protocols and pursuit of our declared foreign policy aims. Operations that end up killing non-Jews, even if the latter carry Israeli citizenship, cannot and will not be tolerated.”

“Well, except for indiscriminate rocket attacks that kill more Palestinians that Jews,” he allowed, referring to the latest round of conflict this past May between Hamas and Israel. “That’s an acceptable ratio of non-Jews to Jews, because in that case the deaths of those Palestinians in Gaza were portrayed by Hamas and a compliant news media as resulting from Israeli strikes, which undermines Israel’s moral position and legitimacy, an outcome that does advance European Commission aims. Unfortunately, the attacks discussed in the reports in question do not fall under that category, and that is what me must address. It is distressing that we must still do so.”

“This continent has seen too much collateral damage already from policies to get rid of Jews that got out of hand,” added European Parliament member U Stashe of Croatia. “Few regions of the world know as painfully as we do what happens when a final solution slides into general mayhem, resulting in the deaths of far, far more non-Jews than anyone had planned. That is why the Commission spends so much time and energy working with the same Palestinian groups over and over, to help them hone their methods and target Jews more precisely, and not to dismiss non-Jewish deaths as simply ‘unfortunate’ or ‘necessary.’ We know from experience where such a careless attitude can lead.”

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