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EU SETTLEMENT DIRECTIVE ANGERS ISRAEL
Laborers work at a housing construction site in the Israeli settlement
of Har Homa in al-Quds on February 27, 2013.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/16/314044/eu-settlement-directive-angers-israel/
Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:2AM GMT
The Tel Aviv regime has increased its illegal settlement expansion
following an upgrade of Palestine's status at the UN to a non-member
observer state on November 29, 2012."
Related Viewpoints: EU enables Netanyahu's colonial policies The
Israeli regime is angered by the European Union's new directive
that bans the EU's dealing with Israeli settlements built beyond
1967 borders.
Israel's deputy foreign minister Zeev Elkin said on Tuesday that the
EU decision was "very significant and worrying."
The new measure demands Israeli authorities to guarantee that all EU
funding and cooperation projects are not in al-Quds (east Jerusalem),
the West Bank or Golan Heights, as the territories were captured by
the Tel Aviv regime during 1967 war.
The directive is expected to take effect as of 2014.
Elkin said the decision would undermine attempts by US Secretary
of State John Kerry to begin peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority.
Reports say that the new directive was drawn up as a result of the
decision by European foreign ministers last December, which stated
that all agreements between the EU and Israel "must unequivocally and
explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied
by Israel in 1967."
The Tel Aviv regime has increased its illegal settlement expansion
following an upgrade of Palestine's status at the UN to a non-member
observer state on November 29, 2012.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built
since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
Much of the international community considers the settlements illegal.
Last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Israel's plan
to build more than 1,000 new illegal units in the occupied West Bank.
SAB/HN
Laborers work at a housing construction site in the Israeli settlement
of Har Homa in al-Quds on February 27, 2013.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/16/314044/eu-settlement-directive-angers-israel/
Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:2AM GMT
The Tel Aviv regime has increased its illegal settlement expansion
following an upgrade of Palestine's status at the UN to a non-member
observer state on November 29, 2012."
Related Viewpoints: EU enables Netanyahu's colonial policies The
Israeli regime is angered by the European Union's new directive
that bans the EU's dealing with Israeli settlements built beyond
1967 borders.
Israel's deputy foreign minister Zeev Elkin said on Tuesday that the
EU decision was "very significant and worrying."
The new measure demands Israeli authorities to guarantee that all EU
funding and cooperation projects are not in al-Quds (east Jerusalem),
the West Bank or Golan Heights, as the territories were captured by
the Tel Aviv regime during 1967 war.
The directive is expected to take effect as of 2014.
Elkin said the decision would undermine attempts by US Secretary
of State John Kerry to begin peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority.
Reports say that the new directive was drawn up as a result of the
decision by European foreign ministers last December, which stated
that all agreements between the EU and Israel "must unequivocally and
explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied
by Israel in 1967."
The Tel Aviv regime has increased its illegal settlement expansion
following an upgrade of Palestine's status at the UN to a non-member
observer state on November 29, 2012.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built
since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
Much of the international community considers the settlements illegal.
Last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Israel's plan
to build more than 1,000 new illegal units in the occupied West Bank.
SAB/HN