What EU does in Israel, aside from paying Arafat $50 million a year:
The 'poor man's Lawrence', By URI DAN
The internal report presented to senior Israeli Foreign Ministry officials was written in a laconic style, but contained dynamite:
"Representatives of the European Union Javier Solana, Miguel Moratinos and Alistair Crook have in recent weeks been maintaining contact with Palestinian terrorist organizations (Fatah, the Aksa death squads, and Hamas) with the aim of persuading them to declare a cease-fire.
"The general direction of these contacts is a Palestinian declaration of a cease-fire within the boundaries of the Green Line, while the struggle against the occupation outside them receives legitimacy in keeping with the general European view which regards the Palestinian Authority as an emerging state, and with its concept of the struggle against occupation.
"The Europeans are trying to convince the Palestinians that declaring a cease-fire will win them much greater international support."
The purpose of this European activity, the report concludes, is to "provide an answer to the stubborn security demands of Israel and the US, with the aim of getting the diplomatic process moving. Such an answer, as the Europeans see it, would put the ball in Israel's court and would permit increasing the pressure on it to take steps to advance the process."
In essence, the Europeans are proposing a form of selection: who will live and who will die. Despite the terrible connotations of this idea from another era, it is not an EU reinvention. More than a year ago, in an article in Ha'aretz, Professor Ze'ev Sternhell tried to persuade the Palestinians to adopt a diabolical strategy: Limit your attacks to adult male Jews beyond the Green Line, and you will receive political support.
Now Sternhell has the right to express his opinion, not only from the Jewish-Zionist aspect but also from the moral one. But it is unthinkable that Israel, a democracy that has been the victim of a two-year campaign of terror, should permit the European Union to give the Palestinians a license to kill its citizens beyond the Green Line in the name of "the struggle against the occupation."
What this scandalous Foreign Ministry report reveals is actually only the tip of the iceberg of the European Union's subversive activities against Israel and its elected leader, Ariel Sharon. If from time to time you see giant notices in the newspapers "against the occupation," "in favor of withdrawal to the 1967 borders," signed by fly-by-night European and Israeli organizations, you should know that they are financed by the EU.
European Union funds are also being used to invite Israeli politicians and journalists from the Left to conferences throughout Europe with or without Palestinians to declare that the policy of the Israeli government is "leading to a catastrophe."
The EU, which has still not woken up from its dream of reviving its hero, Yasser Arafat, is making every effort to torpedo US President George W. Bush's diplomatic program as the president laid it out last June.
Consequently the EU representatives are engaging in overt disinformation. For example, when Israel, after great efforts and in an exceptional campaign, succeeded in killing arch-terrorist Salah Shehadeh, head of Hamas's operations branch in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, three months ago, EU representatives spread the false story that it was Israel that was responsible for the Palestinians changing their minds about announcing a cease-fire (in the spirit of the selection mentioned above, of course).
Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon's efforts to deny this story were in vain, and the EU succeeded in introducing the canard into Israeli newspapers. Long articles were published by Israeli journalists, veteran Arafat supporters, about the adventures of this "new Lawrence of Arabia," as they called Alistair Crook. The sycophantic write-ups presented Crook as a man from British intelligence who had acted in the Gaza Strip and in Ramallah in order to achieve a "cease-fire declaration" and even managed to report this to the Israeli security authorities.
And then, suddenly, the Israelis killed Shehadeh with a one-ton bomb, and thus deliberately sabotaged the "cease-fire."
The day before that bombing in Gaza, Crook and his aides had been at work on their "cease-fire declaration," preparing articles and maybe even ads containing the sensational announcement for the British and US press. But they failed to obtain the signatures from the representatives of the Palestinian murder organizations even for such a wretched announcement.
ALISTAIR CROOK is a gentle, educated and experienced man. I am sure, therefore, that he will not be offended if I say that regarding T.E. Lawrence, to this day it is not clear where truth ends and legend begins, even though he was careful to recount his exploits in his monumental work The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Crook is the poor man's Lawrence; he could write a book about the Palestinians called The Seven Pillars of Terror.
The disinformation that Israel had "sabotaged the cease-fire announcement" was repeated by the EU representatives and circulated once more when Israeli tanks and bulldozers destroyed Arafat's Mukata headquarters in Ramallah after six Jews were murdered by a suicide bomber on a bus opposite Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue.
All these intentionally deceitful releases by EU representatives are aimed at undermining the legal government of Israel in order to replace it by a leftist regime unless, that is, it gives in to the demands of the Palestinian terrorists who desire to destroy it.
The internal Foreign Ministry report about the terrorists' selection for death was authored last week. A few days later another 13 innocent people were slaughtered in a bus at the Karkur Junction when a Palestinian car bomb exploded inside Israeli territory.
The EU hypocrites are, by their actions, pouring oil on the flames of this conflict. They are responsible not only for encouraging the continuation of Palestinian terrorist attacks, but also for the wretched situation of the Palestinians themselves.
It's been a long time since such an incriminating document came out of Shimon Peres's Foreign Ministry, against his friends from the European Union.
The writer is the Mideast correspondent of The New York Post.
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