A letter

This is a message that I emailed few days ago; whoever agrees with its contents should send a similar -or copy/paste- message to Mrs. Ferrer-Walder and other EU personae [see EU Parliament members list]. Remember, 'apathy is the fertilizer of intimidation'


To Mrs. Benita Ferrero-Waldner
Commissioner for External Relations
European Union


Madam,

This is to strongly protest against the recent European Commission’s disgraceful decision to suspend direct economic aid to the Palestinian Authority because of the Hamas agenda.

The fact is that the Hamas platform –like it or not- reflects the will of the majority of Palestinian voters, a fact that the Commission must acknowledge if its members truly accept the principles of democracy.

It is more than obvious that the Commission’s act has no other aim than to increase the misery of Palestinian people –as if they do not suffer enough already- in the hope that they will cancel their January vote and replace their elected representatives with others more of the Commission’s liking.

In case the Commission insists on that shameful blackmailing, there can be no doubt that its members want to impose their own views upon the Palestinian electorate, either because they believe that they have the right to do so in a good-old colonialist manner, or because they have actually turned the EU into a willing instrument of Israeli policy.

Until the EU decision is withdrawn, allow me to believe that the democratic rhetoric in Middle East or elsewhere is just a selective fig leaf to cover an immense hypocrisy.