In 2020, the European Union handed UNRWA some $157,059,235—that’s in addition to the
$1.52 billion paid through the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) channeled through the PEGASE Direct Financial Support, the main E.U. financing instrument for Palestine, between 2017-2020, plus various other funds.
In addition to that, last year, Germany
donated $210,384,339 to UNRWA (which has oversight of schools in the Palestinian territories), the U.K. donated $64,129,434, Sweden donated $60,420,012, France donated $22,986,067, Italy donated $17,714,100 and the list goes on.
With such vast sums flowing from Europe to the Palestinians, the Commission is coming under mounting pressure to prove that its funding is, as
claimed, laying the groundwork for creating a viable independent Palestinian state that serves Palestine’s citizens. Education has been of particular concern, thanks to persistent evidence that the school system is being used to indoctrinate children.
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Meanwhile, the P.A.—whose senior members have grown fabulously wealthy from all the funding poured into their coffers—is trapped between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, if they give in to demands to deliver a fit-for-purpose curriculum, the drive behind their Palestinian nationalist narrative will quickly falter, leading eventually to normalization with Israel and to their rule being toppled in favor of true moderate rule. On the other, if they brazen it out and have funding pulled, they risk an impoverished Palestinian population turning on them.
Either way, the true winners in both scenarios would be the children of Palestine, who might, at last, have a chance of receiving a reasonable education, setting them up for a prosperous life.
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The European Commission, whose commitment to the Palestinian cause is ideological, has nowhere to hide on the issue of the indoctrination of children in the P.A. to fear and hate Israelis.
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