It’s just perfect.
Israeli and Belgian lawyers acting for Eyal Katorza, who is also a French citizen, are preparing a legal case demanding that the EU does more to protect the 300,000 Europeans living in Israel.
Legal documents, seen by The Daily Telegraph, have accused the EU of indirectly funding Palestinian terrorism because of a failure to “prevent the misuse of European funds by non-profit organisations which use these funds to finance terrorism”.
Really, you just can’t get much more shadenfreude out of an issue. Israelis are turning around and doing the same thing to the EU that the Palestinians have done to them. Except there seems to be an actual basis in law for this suit.
Mr Katorza has demanded EU “reparations for lost job income, reparations for physical and psychological damages, reparations for property damages, monies for reinforced buildings against missiles or any other military projectiles”.
The dual French-Israeli citizen, from Sderot in Israel’s Negev region, has lost his job and family business because of Qassam rocket attacks launched from the Gaza strip by Hamas.
His lawyers have cited clauses in the EU Treaties that offer protection to Europeans even while they are living abroad.
Even better, they’re looking to make it a class-action suit. Next up: Someone should sue UNRWA and the UN.