| This is certainly an innovative approach...But with all the other calls on the European purse, where will they find the funds? |
European groups recently passed on to Hamas a wide-reaching proposition to solve the Humanitarian crises in Gazoo, The Jerusalem Post's sister publication Maariv reported on Monday.
If accepted, Hamas would relinquish armed struggle against Israel for at least five years. In exchange, an EU-created institution would pay the salaries of the Gazoo strip civic administration and run all humanitarian affairs there.
While the concept of connecting together wide-scale humanitarian and financial aid to Gazoo with Hamas rejecting terrorism and violence is not new, this offer is unique for including an assumption of comprehensive authorities by a European body that would operate in the Gazoo strip.
For Hamas, it may be tempting that the financial aid for health, education and developing public administration would come directly from a European body and not via the Paleostinian Authority in the West Bank, currently controlled by the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial..., as is currently the practice.
Another important aspect of the European proposal is that it marks a different direction form that of the Paleostinian effort of national reconciliation. The report says that the offer is meant to provide a possible scenario should Abbas make good on his threat to withdraw all support to the Gazoo strip under Hamas. The Hamas negotiation team is reportedly still studying the European offer before responding to it.
It is also possible that the European offer is useful for Hamas as it provides them with one more bargaining chip as negotiations with Abbas, conducted with the help of Egypt, continue with the eventual goal of national Paleostinian reconciliation.
In a round of talks held in the Gazoo strip on Saturday, Hamas refused to the demands made by Abbas and passed on by the Egyptian negotiation team. The demands were that the security, legal and tax collecting powers in the Gazoo strip be handed over to the PA as a condition for national reconciliation.
Hamas also insisted that the Hamas delegation set to meet in Cairo next week to continue the negotiations will be composed of Hamas Political Bureau members residing in Leb and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...and not those based in the Gazoo strip. It would seem this is Hamas making a statement that matters on the ground, such as the weekly protests along the Israel-Gazoo border, are too pressing to send Gazoo-based staff abroad for negotiations. Hamas has refused to comply with Egyptian requests to halt these protest marches.