NEWSFLASH: Arafat abused international aid for terrorism!

News that isn't news at all. But still.

The Telegraaf, the only newspaper in the Netherlands that can't be labeled leftwing has a report (in Dutch) (thru a German current affairs TV show called "Report Munich") that there is now documented evidence of Arafat's abuse of foreign aid. No amounts are mentioned, but an actual witness (a former aide and confidant of Arafat) named Uzrad Lew claims "Arafat has built the largest financing network for terror in the world". "Report Munich" claims to have hard evidence of the Palestinian administration circulating international aid money through a network of "mailbox companies". This includes the use of bank accounts in London, Cairo, New York and Geneva.

The report also states that the EU anti-fraud agency is investigating if indeed European funds were used for financing acts of terrorism against Israel.
"We are still waiting for a number of documents from Israel and the Palestinian territories before forming a final conclusion", said Franz-Hermann Brüner from the OLAF agency.

OLAF is still waiting. Ever since the first incursions into Gaza, when mountains of documents were seized from the desk of Arafat himself, Israel has been offering evidence to anyone willing to see. But Chris Patten and his cronies aren't all that willing. Someone more cynical than me (heh) might even say unwilling.

Oh well. No surprise there.

UPDATE: Here's a piece with more detailed info on the German report (It's in German, I translated a small part of it). It states that the report contains allegations of 246 MILLION Euro (about US$ 250 MILLION!) being used without any form of audit of control, from EU aid alone.
(Ed: Individual European countries make large donations as well, apart from the EU). But it's clear US aid was also abused by Arafat, part of the abused funds originate from a US$ 898 MILLION grant that disappeared in just five years.
As recent as April 2004, 40 MILLION Euro was transferred from Brussels to the Arab-Bank in Gaza.

Billions and billions are poured into the Jew-killing machine. I don't know what would be worse as a motive for doing so: Negligence and naivete, or just plain old Jew-hatred and pragmatism. Either way, it shows once more what forces Israel is up against. Dozens of countries, donating billions of dollars, completely at the disposal of the worlds oldest terrorist. How does that sound? Sometimes I wonder where Arafat gets the nerve to do what he does. But it's things like this that make it more clear. He has far more friends and allies than the Jews do.

What a world.