EU halts Palestinian aid
aljazeera.net: Ministers said after a meeting in Luxembourg that some of the 500 million euro ($600 million) cut in funding to the Palestinian government would now be channelled via humanitarian aid organisations.
Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, said: "We do not wish to punish the Palestinian people for the decision they freely made to elect a Hamas-dominated government.
"At the same time, Hamas has got to recognise that being elected as a government, democratically, they have responsibilities as democrats to do what everybody else has to do as democrats, which is to eschew violence." Read more
db: Great idea Jack. So when are you and Blair going to 'eschew violence'? I guess it's different, because the UK is the fourth richest country in the world. We can kill whoever, wherever and whenever we please. For democracy. And markets. And oil.
Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, said: "We do not wish to punish the Palestinian people for the decision they freely made to elect a Hamas-dominated government.
"At the same time, Hamas has got to recognise that being elected as a government, democratically, they have responsibilities as democrats to do what everybody else has to do as democrats, which is to eschew violence." Read more
db: Great idea Jack. So when are you and Blair going to 'eschew violence'? I guess it's different, because the UK is the fourth richest country in the world. We can kill whoever, wherever and whenever we please. For democracy. And markets. And oil.
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