He eats for a day. Give a man a fishing rod, he eats forever. Give the Palestinians a billion euros, it buys more poverty and "suffering" for the people (except for a select few) and the Europeans stay hooked. Money to Palestinians goes down the drain. Money to Israel goes to Nobel prizes.

the World starts to get a clue what is done wiht itt's "help", it's used to fund terrorists and pay them a salary as a reward to kill Jews and the rest goes to the Swiss account of Abu Mazen.

Good morning, Europe! If I were contributing 2 billion of anything to a "worthwhile" cause, I think I would be curious to know what/who this contribution has been benefiting. Could it be that the recipients of this dole have been colluding with the donors all along? We're not talking about an earth-shattering revelation here. No one is falling off their seat. What would it take for there to be more monitoring and transparency on the part of the donors? A few more billion?

Nothing new under the sun. With the report not published, let us hope it does get published and most importantly that the E U does something about it

more corrupt Palestinians are becoming freshly crowned billionaires.

Palestinians have full control of their daily lives. Their leadership carries on the Arafat tradition of corruption and theft of aid money. Aid money doesn't go to Israel. You're out of luck on this lie.

does not realize that the Pals have one excuse for all their failures: Israel dunnit. In this case, the report makes it clear thar the money was handed over to Pals. Then the Pals tell Lydia that Israel stole it and laugh their heads off behind her back when she gullibly believes them.

Always held we were the unrivalled masters at pissing away good cash and resources upon dubious foreign organizations & states, but the Euro kids are proving truly serious challengers.

Talkbackers are blaming the Arabs for stealing the money, but it is only half the story. "Palestine" is a scam where EuroLeftists take money from European taxes, pass it through PLO hands (who take a cut) and then put it in their own pockets. The real thiefs are European and Israeli Leftists who take the money.

How is it possible for Belgium to donate all that Aid WITHOUT diligence, conditions and monitoring The Palestinian Authorities must have thought they had won the Lotto -BILLIONS without strings! Its not good for the DONORS and its not good for the RECIPIENTS either Palestinians also want to know how that money has been used and spent But where does Baroness Ashton fit in to all this? Is it not her job to have built a proper EU Wide Aid Programme for the PA aimed at Financial Support AND due Diligence? Dumb and Dumber

The substantive content of your post notwithstanding, please do not lie. You are a citizen of Ireland. Why do you persist in pretending otherwise? Are you ashamed of being Irish? Then just say so. You will not meet a derisive audience. Few people want to lay claim to being Irish, and for good reason. 'fess up, Cameron. Then clamber back aboard your bar stool and have at. Wow! The epithet "drunken Irish" may not be such an epithet after all. The truth is never an epithet. And, heaven knows, the Irish excel at producing drunkards. Of which Cameron is just another sorry example ....

to the "palestinians" but can't fix the street in front of my house. Something terribly wrong with the priorities of this country.

Easy comes easy gooooooesssssss

that Belguim and Europe have been so dumb and dumber all these years. Its a known fact about corruption, and they will probably get around to blaming Israel. Israel STOP the supplies!!! Tunnels and missles to fire at Israel cost a lot of money!!!

Arafat was not Maddof. UN Audit of Palestinian $$$$ accounted for ALL the funds. Missing money invested (hidden) but not misappropriated by Arafat. However, don't let the truth get in the way of your hasbara bs propaganda.

out of total 2 billion Euros of aid, 2 would of being stolen. EU would be owing to PA 50 millions. And Israel would be paying those. ---------------- Today, 50 millions out of 2 billions seems to be spent as intended. Europeans feels good that they look like a very nice and giving people. And Israel isn't paying a dime to anybody? How is that fair???

he took a very long term loan. As did Abbas too, of course. You may now return your head to that certain part of a kangaroes anatomy that you pulled it out of.

and sucked them dry as is reward. Nothing's changed but the faces, both Hamas and the PA are still the same snake with two heads. Those who finance them are equally guilty. Wanna get even? KEEP BUILDING !!!!!

this is what yechaimovitch and peres call a reliable peace partner, a garbage collection of disparate arabs liars and crooks with abbas at the head of them. Settlers should warn abbas that they will be coming for him when the next israeli is harmed.

Stop it your making me hot!! I'd pay for the pals to leave and, I'm an American. Where do I send the $$$??? Not the EU I presume?

Mrs Arafat and her lover are probably still enjoying stolen PA funds...AND it takes a lot of money for the hammas etc to live the life of luxury that they do, also for tunnels, missles etc. BTW ever been to Gaza? visited the 5 star hotels and the new mall (that a lot cant afford) SO where did that money come from???? Lydia you are such an idiot!!!

Bad work from the journalist :-s When speaking about "Brussels" in the European press, that means EU (Brussels being the "headquarter" of the European Commission). Belgium is of course unable to make such "a gift" (even to Palestinians). In this case, European Union is to blame, not this small country.

Finally in 2000 it was revealed that "$345 million, including $292 million in equity stakes in three dozen companies including the PA 1/3 share in an Israeli-patronized casino, valued at $60 million". Nor should we forget the Shimon Peres and his Peres Peace Centre investment with the Government of Qatar.

He merely "took a very long term loan"? Well, try putting some millions of Belgian government Euros into your own bank account. And when they put you on trial, say you merely took it as a long term loan. I think you will still go to jail.

Let's see where you get the nonsense you post. At least you admit Arafat and the PA used foreign aid to make personal investments. They hid the money earmarked for the poor Palestinians.