Israel accuses the European Union is funding Palestinian terrorism "

According to Israel, European countries indirectly fund the Palestinian terrorists. Million in international aid would, according to claims Jerusalem, in the pockets of families of suicide terrorists or Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli prisons. Among the largest donors European figure Britain, but also checks splintered from the EU as a whole are those six zeros.

The Palestinian national authority, Hamas officially riconciliatasi last may, has earmarked the 3.5 per cent of national budgets in support of the family of the dead in suicide bombings. To make known the Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida. In soldoni is "an average of 3,129 Israeli shekels (about 600 euros) per head", really not bad if you think that "a public employee takes home about 2882 Israel shekels (550 euro)". Fed are also grants the Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. "Every terrorist in prison, including those that have resulted in the deaths of Israeli civilians, are on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority," said Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch. These money are most often paid to the families of prisoners in proportion to the years of condemnation. We talk about 350 euros for a sentenced to less than three years and up to 3000 euros for those who take more than 30 years.

Inevitably part of these funds are taken by the European international aid earmarked for Palestine. Among the major donors are the Sweden. The Swedish Conservative daily Svenska Dagbladet is ironically noted that in Palestine "should more step jump in the air rather than work". But the majority of European aid are from Britain, where in recent weeks the controversy rages on usage view especially crisis and social unrest erupted in his homeland. According to the Daily Mail, from London leave every year with destination East Jerusalem about 86 million pounds (122 million euros), of which 3 million are in the pockets of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

"We are very careful how we spend our money to the Palestinian occupied territories," he said in February the British Minister for international development Alan Duncan. A reassurance that is putting Downing Street sheltered from criticism of the use of international funds, especially in times of economic crisis. The pressure is increased further after the announcement of the Government to increase aid of 35% by 2015. David Cameron had to admit that it is a "very difficult commitment" in times when the British were forced to pull strap.

Despite the attacks of the oppositions, discounted is however difficult to impute responsibility to European Governments that cannot decide how to use the funds that are earmarked over the Mediterranean. But the State of Israel does not stop blowing on the fire of controversy, and speaks openly of financing Palestinian terrorists ". Already a couple of years ago, Israeli activists had harshly criticized the European Union for having financed, according to them, the curricula anti Israel promoted by the Palestinian Authority. Meanwhile Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs, although not intervened directly on the issue, it is often spending in favour of Palestine and the rights of its inhabitants.

Meanwhile the 20 September is waiting the historic United Nations decision on the recognition of a Palestinian State. Whether and how this decision will affect European international aid towards Ramallah and Gaza city all to see.

Israel, 500,000 young people in piazzaper greater social justice

Almost 500,000 demonstrators marched yesterday evening in 20 Israeli cities, for what the organizers had called "the March of a million". A massive protest despite the numeric target has been missed. The largest parade took place in Tel Aviv. More than 300,000 have covered the streets of the city centre until piazza Kikar Hamedina. In Jerusalem, in the tens of thousands gathered under the Windows of the Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu.

The protest was born in July from a post on Facebook of Daphni Leef, 25-year-old student cinema. The Leef, exasperated by the cost of rent in Tel Aviv, calling on all to take a tent and a place in the town centre. The first tents, I check the 14 July (hence the name of the movement J14, July 14), Bouleverd Rothschild, one of the commercial arteries of the city. With weeks, the protest grew, giving birth to a score of spontaneous camps in several Israeli cities.



The first national demonstration was held on 23 July and participated in 30 thousand, become ten times more in the March of the following Saturday and closed on 6 August. With the growing numbers have changed the demands of the protesters: If at first you were mobilized emergency houses, now calling for social justice.

Israel, from the demographic point of view, is a young country. Has a high birth rate, also due to the Palestinian Arab minority, about 20 percent of the population. To protest are largely middle class young people, students and workers, with a good level of education, the society that inhabits the uncertainty of the future, sure that will not have the economic ability of past generations. University associations have cut movement has an important role, in particular the National Student Union (Student Union).  Its President Itzik Shmuli, 31 years, last night from the stage of the rally in Tel Aviv said: "this square is full of new Israelis, who are ready to die for their country, but it is up to you, Mr Prime Minister, let us live in this country."

The Netanyahu Government already tried in the last days of July to give a response to the demands of the protesters. The premier, in the aftermath of the first major manifestation of the square, has cancelled a trip diplomat in Poland to meet with protest leaders. Netanyahu's proposal was a regulation, which allows the reduction of bureaucracy for the construction of new housing. This however is not enough for young Israelis calling for broader social policies and not another liberal opening. The Israeli economy has not been too affected by the global crisis: unemployment is around 6 percent, and the growth rate is among the highest in the West. These factors are not sufficient to ensure that the middle class, in a country where the gap between rich and poor is accentuated, adequate access to basic services: home, health and education.

The movement's spokesman reiterated since July aspiration political protests, always trying to separate the occupation of the Palestinian territories, policies needed to quell the protests. Some of the protesters but stressed that Israel spends in the 7% of its Gdp, which are added each year, 3 billion dollars in US military aid. September is announced as a hot month: diplomatic relations nearly stopped with the Turkey, major tensions with Egypt and the September 20 vote at the United Nations for the recognition of a Palestinian State. This international situation could disregard new increases military expenditure, subtracting those funds social spending that the square asks for weeks.

Cosimo Caridi