Israel condemns EU Directive on Settlements

[LazyLion]

A senior Israeli official is condemning the European Union's new directive banning EU dealings with settlements as "worrying" and counterproductive to peace talks.

From 2014, Israeli authorities must guarantee that all EU funding and cooperation projects are conducted within Israel's pre-1967 border and not in east Jerusalem, the West Bank or Golan Heights.

Israel's deputy foreign minister Zeev Elkin called the decision a "very significant and worrying move," telling Israel radio on Tuesday that it doesn't help attempts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to restart peace talks with the Palestinians.

Kerry returns to the region this week for consultations, but is not scheduled to visit Israel or the Palestinian territories.

Israel says the status of lands it captured in the 1967 Mideast war should be resolved through talks.


Source : Sapa-AP /pk
Date : 16 Jul 2013 08:56

 

[Haldex]

Hey thats what SA has done.
Its good, yet we still selling Soda stream products here. They supposed to be banned.

 

[Fudzy]

Wouldn't government just channel money into those settlements anyway?

 

[krycor]

Wouldn't government just channel money into those settlements anyway?

A lot of those settlements have product/agri products which are sold internationally(they actually have marker/sticker in some cases). Basically disallowing sales from that region reduces the attraction of staying there i guess as people will have to travel quite a bit to work(assuming these places of work stop being feasible).

Gov can't subsidize to compensate without trade retaliations as a result

 

[Fudzy]

So no more dead sea mud stalls at malls?

Actually I don't mind, the ladies have been replaced by hairy men, long haired men at my local mall.

 

[hellfire]

Hey thats what SA has done.
Its good, yet we still selling Soda stream products here. They supposed to be banned.

All South Africans support ANC