The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam warned the West was funding the radicalization of Palestinians over a decade ago in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, written while he was leading Britain’s ‘Coalition Against Hate Education’.
“[W]e can’t ignore what goes on in Israel and the Palestinian territories, if for no reason other than we’re affecting it: Our money is supporting indoctrination in the territories that is sowing the seeds of future conflict for decades to come,” Kassam explained in the 2010 article, describing how the United States, the European Union, and individual EU member-states had been pumping vast sums of money into the Palestinian territories – even as Hamas was winning (now abandoned) elections in them.
Kassam also addressed claims mechanisms could be put in place to ensure the money was not used to fund terrorism – similar to the claims the Joe Biden has regime has made with respect to the $6 billion it recently freed up for Iran – and provided examples of the money being misused, including an EU-funded game show, emblazoned with EU flags, claiming all of Israel as Arab territory.
“All this is particularly worrying given the demographics of the Palestinian population – some 42 percent are under 15 years old,” Kassam wrote, referring to public television broadcasts and school textbooks, paid for by Western largesse, praising Islamist insurgencies and hailing so-called martrys.
Thirteen years on, the warnings seem prescient: many of the Palestinian youths being indoctrinated in Gaza in 2010 will have been young adults by of this year’s deadly terror raid on Israel. Some may well have taken part in it.
