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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Report: EU sidelining efforts to penalize settlements
The European Union is “sidelining” a call from its top diplomats in Israel to step up pressure on the Jewish state’s settlement enterprise, the Guardian reports.
According to the paper, the EU has disregarded a request to increase moves to “halt trade” with the settlements, despite Brussels’s repeated claims that they are illegal and threaten the two-state solution.
The Guardian says that it has seen a late 2015 report by the so-called Heads of Missions in Israel, which warns of growing “despair… anger and a loss of hope in the future” among Palestinians. The paper claims that Brussels has taken no action on the report recommendations despite these entreaties.
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