Israel steps up efforts to persuade EU to drop settlement product labels

[Little Tich]

Source: Times of Israel

Israeli officials continue to publicly voice their displeasure with the EU.

Israeli diplomats held a series of discussions with European officials on Friday during which they expressed "vociferous objections" to Brussels' plan to label products manufactured in West Bank settlements.

According to a statement released by the Foreign Ministry, Israel's envoy to the EU, David Walzer, and the head of the Foreign Ministry's diplomatic office, Alon Ushpiz, met with senior European Commission representatives as well as ambassadors to various European countries in an effort to persuade them to drop the label initiative.

"These meetings, which were held as the date on which the labeling of products is approaching, are part of Israel's comprehensive diplomatic activity whose goal is to explain why the European initiative is negative and discriminatory while trying to bring about its cancellation."

Israeli officials continue to publicly voice their displeasure with the EU. Minister of Science, Technology, and Space Ofir Akunis on Thursday cancelled his participation in a joint event with the EU envoy to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen in protest over the anticipated EU labeling directives.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Israel-steps-up-efforts-to-persuade-EU-to-drop-settlement-product-labels-432276

[Purveyor]

1. Good luck with that one... eom

[azurnoir]

2. here it is

"The labeling initiative is a dark stain on the moral fabric of Europe which bears witness to the fact that the lessons of history have not been learned," he said.

Akunis said he viewed favorably the Horizon 2020 project and other joint science and technology initiatives with the EU but that he "could not ignore the EU initiative which is nearing implementation."

"What began with calls to boycott Jewish businesses, continued with the marking of human beings, and afterwards with their systematic destruction," the Likud minister said.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Israel-steps-up-efforts-to-persuade-EU-to-drop-settlement-product-labels-432276

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Israel certainly loves to play up the Holocaust guilt, IMHO.

"The lessons of history"

Israel certainly hasn't learned "the lessons of history"; especially with their subjugation of an indigenous population.


"The lessons of history" is lost on the arrogant.

[geek tragedy]

4. I heard the Mufti suggested this labeling idea nt

[Crunchy Frog]

6. .

[Crunchy Frog]

5. I guess he wins a Godwin. n/t