President Reuven Rivlin held a work meeting with the President of the European Council Donald Tusk.
During the meeting, Rivlin and Tusk discussed, among other issues, the European Union’s plan to label products made beyond the Green Line specially, not as “Made in Israel” but in a way denoting that the products originate in the settlements.
Referring to the prospect of future peace agreement, Rivlin said to get to that blessed day, Israel and the Palestinians must first work to build mutual trust.
Commerce and industry are a model of possible peace between the region’s nations, he added. Peace, the president told Tusk, can’t be forced; it must come from the people.
Rivlin emphasized that the labeling of Israeli products will be an obstacle to peace. The dream of shared existence, as realized in Europe, was not reached by creating obstacles but rather by dialogue and cooperation, Rivlin told Tusk.
Reuven Rivlin meets with US House Democrats at his residence on August 5, 2015. (Mark Neyman/ GPO)
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