A new statement from European Union foreign ministers has condemned Israel’s latest settlement expansion plans, expressing “deep dismay” at the policy and insisting that all EU treaties with Israel rest are explicitly applicable only to the 1967 borders.
The reference to the 1967 borders could be significant, as some are saying it could lay the groundwork for EU sanctions banning products coming out of Israeli settlements, something which so far officials publicly insist isn’t being considered.
EU criticism of settlements has gotten progressively more serious in recent months, with the last announcement seemingly the “last straw” and suggesting a major shift in EU policy against the far-right Israeli government’s policy of building whenever it serves to spite the Palestinians.
Israeli officials are downplaying the seriousness of the comments, and slamming the European Union as “one-sided” in their criticism of the settlements, insisting history has “proven” that the Palestinians are exclusively to blame for the lack of peace deals.
You have taken too long get rid of ashton then you may see things as they are as the Palestinians do.
Words mean nothing with these people. Act, or just shut up. Now you just sound like fools.
The EU is a fossil, so nothing new or good can come out of there.
EU is just a waste of the USA tax payers money, they are good for nothing corrupt and blind to be kind.
As if the EU, stumbling from pillar to post, was in any position to criticise anyone