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Related: About this forumPM: EU vote to label Israel settlement products echoes Nazi era
http://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-eu-vote-to-label-israel-settlement-products-echoes-nazi-era/It is simply a distortion of justice and of logic and I think that it also hurts peace; it does not advance peace, he said in a statement. The root of the conflict is not the territories, and the root of the conflict is not the settlements. We have historical memory of what happened when Europe labelled Jewish products.
Is there anything the government of Israel won't compare to the Holocaust? They're playing that card about once per week lately. Iran is Nazi Germany last week. Now the EU is Nazi Germany for labeling goods made in the illegal settlements.
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PM: EU vote to label Israel settlement products echoes Nazi era (Original Post)
geek tragedy
Sep 2015
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If Netanyahu didn't use Holocaust guilt then what other mechanism would he employ?
R. Daneel Olivaw
Sep 2015
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Little Tich
(6,171 posts)1. The settlements are not "the Jews".
The world wants two states even if Netanyahu doesn't.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)5. It's a strain of "criticizing Israel is antisemitic"
It's all they have.
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)3. If Netanyahu didn't use Holocaust guilt then what other mechanism would he employ?
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovly said Israel would not accept discrimination between goods produced in different parts of its territory.
What you call "your territory" is actually stolen West Bank land.
Labeling of products amounts to a boycott, she said, hours after the European vote.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovly said Israel would not accept discrimination between goods produced in different parts of its territory.
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovly said Israel would not accept discrimination between goods produced in different parts of its territory.
Get used to it. More is to come.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)4. She seems to be telling Europe that they might as well BDS.
Not smart diplomacy, but it's been a few decades since the Israelis believed in the concept of diplomacy.
TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)6. Yes, that's what struck me about it
Her statement serves to confirm the need for the action she's criticising.