A Dutch engineering firm that was slated to participate in the construction of a sewage treatment facility in east Jerusalem announced on Friday that it was pulling out of the project due to bullying tactics used by the anti Israel industry that is prominent in Holland and also due to government pressure from a government that constantly panders to the Muslim vote in Holland.
In a move that drew praise from the Palestinians, the company, Royal HaskoningDHV, released a statement on Friday saying that it decided to terminate its involvement in the project “after due consultation with various stakeholders.”
In other words due to threats of violence, intimidation and hostility from the Dutch Government as well as islamist thugs who fester through Dutch society like a cancer, as with most of modern Europe.
“Royal HaskoningDHV has today advised the client it has decided to terminate the contract for the Kidron waste water treatment plant project,” the firm announced on its Web site. “The project is in the early stages of the preliminary design phase.”
Royal HaskoningDHV carries out its work with the highest regard for integrity and in compliance with international laws and regulations,” the company said. “In the course of the project, and after due consultation with various stakeholders, the company came to understand that future involvement in the project could be in violation of international law.”
Because the Palestinian pressure groups say so! We wonder if this company would say the same if it won a contract in Iraq or Saudi? We wonder if the violation of human rights would matter then? The mutilation of young girls? The treatment of women as second class? The murder of Gays? And of course the rabid anti Semitism? We somehow doubt it.
The move was applauded by the Palestinian Authority. Hanan Ashrawi, an executive committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, hailed the Dutch firm’s decision. According to Ashrawi, the Dutch government had pressured the company to withdraw from the project.
Surprise surprise.
“Royal HaskoningDHV has emphasized that it conducts its work with the highest regard for integrity and in full compliance with international law and regulations,”
Ashrawi said in a statement. “The planned Israeli water treatment plant in East Jerusalem breaches international law, and it is primarily designed to service illegal settlements that cause severe human rights violations.”
“This project deepens Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem, consolidates its occupation of the West Bank, and constitutes another obstacle to the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state on 1967 borders with east Jerusalem as its capital.”
This past July, the European Union enraged the Israeli government after its controversial decision to institute new guidelines limiting interaction with Israeli entities beyond the pre-1967 lines.
All this is just more evidence of the EU's anti - Israel stance and is proof of the influence anti - Semitism still has in a Europe that only 70 years ago displayed anti - Semitism in it most extreme form.
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