One More Reason Not to Join the EU

Sheesh. Congrats, working men and women of Europe, you now get to pay the bills for yet another bloated, failed (sorry, failing)bureaucracy.

Let me 'splain something to you. Here is the important bit of the story.

But most of the package was earmarked for long-term projects while many Arab donors have not met their commitments, leaving the Palestinian government struggling to pay public employees over recent months.

"The situation is very, very tight, for sure," a top official from prime minister Salam Fayyad's office said this week, according to Reuters.

The Palestinian Authority employs some 160,000 public servants and their salaries cost €82 million monthly - covered by foreign aid.

While part of the EU cash should be spent on salaries, pensions, social aid to the poorest families and fuel for Gaza's electricity power plant, part of it has already been earmarked for priority projects such as the construction of new security forces headquarters in Nablus.

The PA is more concerned about keeping its own power through a well trained, well armed security force than anything else. This should not be news to anyone. The second, more important note is that most Arab donors have not met their commitments.

Folks, this is not new. Without the imagery of Palestinians (sigh, Palestine was a region, not a country, and none of this would be necessary if neighboring Arab countries took these people in, but I digress.) suffering, there is no humanitarian plight. Without a humanitarian plight, it is impossible to make Israel look like the bad guy.

Subsidize the pension plans of the PA so they can keep blowing up Jews. Christ, and I thought we had shitty foreign policy on this side of the pond.