Oct. 29, 2015

• Make EU Funds to Palestinians Conditional on an End to Incitement to Violence – Lars Adaktusson
  The recent attacks are symptomatic of a malaise in Palestinian society that the international partners, and Europe, in particular, have been trying to duck for several decades: Hate speech and incitement to violence. The EU should stop tiptoeing around this issue by continuing to make large wire transfers to the PA bank account. We need to be assertive and condition all the EU funds for the territories on an actual Palestinian renouncement of hate and incitement to violence. Building a Palestinian society that will see cutting people’s throats as abhorrent as it is for any Western society is not a pro-Israel position. It falls into the oft forgotten category of the right thing to do. The writer, a Swedish journalist and television news anchor, is a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. (Ynet News)