EU announces strategy to help build Palestinian state

Yahoo! News reported The European Commission announced ambitious plans to help build a politically and economically viable Palestinian state, including injecting hundreds of millions of euros in extra aid. The aim is to use the opportunity created by
Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and put in place a comprehensive medium-term assistance strategy, external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said. "We intend to be a major partner in a viable Palestinian state," she told reporters in Brussels. "We should not let the chance provided by the Gaza withdrawal slip through our fingers." She said that if the withdrawal led to implementation of the roadmap peace plan and other donors also came forward, she would urge EU states to earmark the Palestinians a further 200-300 million euros (240-360 million dollars).

Please just keep an eye on what they do with the money. If they spend it to improve their economy, and try to work peacefully and cooperatively with their neighbor state of Israel, then that would be wonderful. If they spend it to improve their economy, and ignore their neighbor state of Israel, then that would be ok. If they just spend it on weapons with which to attack Israel, then the EU is just encouraging war.