Of course; who else?
A commenter on an an editorial titled Who Stole $3 Billion from the PA Cookie Jar? wrote that
"A recent article in the UK's Guardian newspaper, citing a World Bank report, blamed Israel for the backward state of the Palestinian economy due to 'the occupation'. A view endorsed by many Guardian readers - including BDS and other Israel haters who need no excuse to vent their spleen and also by a large contingent of half-wits who would have trouble finding Israel on the map let alone understand the issues. Light fingered pals have some explaining to do!"
Mark Langfan, who wrote the editorial, writes on security issues, has created an original educational 3d Topographic Map System of Israel to facilitate clear understanding of the dangers facing Israel and its water supply. It has been studied by US lawmakers and can be seen at www.marklangfan.com.
Langfan cites a report by the European Court of Auditors, a Luxembourg-based watchdog, that more than $3 billion dollars (or 2 billion Euros) of European aid given to the Palestinian Authority between 2008 and 2012 "may have been misspent, squandered or lost to corruption."
The auditor report further stated there were "significant shortcomings" in the management of funds sent to "Gaza and the West Bank." Also, the auditors "complained about the lack of measures to mitigate ‘high-level’ risks, such as "corruption" or funds not being used for their" designated purpose.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Abu Mazen blamed the "Israeli occupation" for his not having enough money to pay his government's 150,000 Palestinian Arab "employees". The Palestinian Authority's 2013 budget was expected to reach $1.4 billion.
Where is the money going? Langfran writes that Abu Mazen and Hamas are not paying teachers to teach physics or computers to Palestinian Arab children so they can compete in the modern world. Instead, they are paying Palestinian Arab terrorist murderers who are sitting in Israeli jails, and terror tunnel builders who intend to kidnap Israeli school children. These are the leaders for whom the Palestinian Arabs voted and empowered in the barely remembered last elections held in the PA.
Yet the U.S. and Europe continue to pour good money after bad and, at the same time, sing the Hamas and Hezbollah song that "Everything is Israel's fault."
Pete Seeger asked the question in 1955: "When will they ever learn?"
Pete wrote it, but Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary and some others made it famous in the 60s. (The song title is "Where have all the flowers gone?" If you've never heard it (impossible!) listen to the video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXqTf8DU6a0 as Seeger and Arlo (Woody's boy) Guthrie sing it.)
If you're interested in Pete Seeger's thoughts, visit
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/30113.Pete_Seeger
