Posted on 12/02/2016 5:30:41 AM PST by Kaslin
Israel is upset that France will be requiring goods and produce made by Israelis in the Judean and Samarian [West Bank] areas to be labeled as such, not as products of Israel. The Israeli government is furious, and considers the requirement to be a possible death knell for those goods.
Paris published guidelines on enforcing European Union (EU) regulations on produce from the West Bank, including annexed east Jerusalem, which the international community considers occupied Palestinian land, and the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967. -- The Independent
The European Union considers the Eastern side of Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the "West Bank" as not part of Israel, but rather the possession of a soon-to-be Palestinian state; and they want the origin labeling to reflect that. Israel feels such labeling will mark out such products for boycott.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry responded by saying it "regrets that France, which actually has a law against boycotts, is advancing measures that can be interpreted as encouraging radical elements and the movement to boycott Israel". The Independent
Ironically, France, along with many European states, had already declared Boycott, Divestment and Sanctioning (BDS) against Israel to be illegal discrimination. However, those protections would not apply to Israeli communities in the contested areas, which Europe sees as violating international law.
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Wow, the French really are that stupid.
All you Globalists out there, ain’t life great. On our shores just consider what kind of meat you are eating and where it came from because Congress threw out country of origin labeling. There are those in the Ag community who think we are losing so many cattle and hog producers that our meat supply may soon border on the unsustainable due to the price reductions for cattle and hogs. That would be reductions to the producer, not reductions at the grocer.
I don’t see how the labelling of settlement products would lead to their boycott.
Consumers who are hostile to Israel wouldn’t buy ANYTHING made in Israel.
Consumers who support Israeli policies would especially buy settlement products...
Ok there may be a few people who want to buy Israeli products except from settlements... but are they that many?
Seized from Syria in a war of aggression. I was there
A grave error in the article... no one includes the Golan as part of a future Palestinian state. Golan is Syrian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
The United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) was shelling Israeli towns, conducted terrorist raids, and blockading Israel. All of these are acts of war. Israel responded to these and the gathering coalition of Soviet-backed Arab nations and Pakistan by responding to these acts of war before the Muslim-Soviet war of genocide could get into high gear.
Why should we have any sympathy for the Syrians and the Palestinians?
They made a bad decision in 1967.
They were grown ups. They joined the wrong side. And they lost the war.
If the Palestinians had joined Israel’s side in 1967, they would have almost total political freedom today, and a much higher standard of living.
Instead, the Palestinians demanded poverty and rule by Islamic gangsters.
And that’s exactly what they got.
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