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| March 11, 2015
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Israel demolishes illegal EU structures also built in violation of Oslo Accords

EU condemns demolition of prefab buildings illegally erected on outskirts of Arab neighborhood of Issawiya, inhabited by Bedouin communities on state land.

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Israeli authorities on Tuesday demolished an EU-funded shelter in Arab east Jerusalem, the European Union said, denouncing the move.

The blue EU logo seen on new modular structures in an illegal Bedouin encampment in the Judean hills outside the Ma’alen Adumim settlement.

“We condemn today’s demolition of temporary shelters funded by the European Union… as part of its response to the needs of the affected communities,” an EU statement said.

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| February 10, 2015
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Bennett Reprimands EU Ambassadors For Upcoming Sanctions on Jewish Communities in Judea-Samaria

In a leaked recording, Minister Bennett is heard saying to roomful of EU envoys, ‘To isolate Israel and tie its hands economically, hoping we commit suicide, is immoral.’

By Orly Harari and Tova Dvorin

 

Economics Minister and Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett reprimanded EU ambassadors to Israel Monday, during a series of closed meetings at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel.

“To isolate Israel and tie its hands economically, hoping we commit suicide, is immoral,” Bennett is heard saying on audio recordings published on Army Radio. “Instead of understanding that we are the dam to a river of terrorism…  Support us, help us – don’t tie our hands.”

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| February 9, 2015
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Quartet Comes Out Against Unilateral Palestinian Efforts to Impose Statehood on Israel

The Quartet, with the EU as one of the principles, called on “both parties to refrain from actions that undermine trust or prejudge final status issues” while covertly the EU funded 400 Palestinian homes built illegally, in 17 locations in areas of the West Bank under Israeli control, recognized by Oslo Accords and int’l law.

By HERB KEINON

 

The Mideast Quartet principals met in Munich for the first time in a year on Sunday and came out against unilateral Palestinian efforts to get the international community to impose a solution on Israel.

Unauthorized Palestinian buildings, in contravention of the ‘Oslo Accords’, international law and local Israeli law, fly the EU flag & EU signs.

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| February 6, 2015
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EU illegally building hundreds of Palestinians structures in Area C in violation of Oslo Accords

 

The NGO, Regavim reports: EU trying to establish “facts on the ground” contrary to Israeli law & Oslo II Agreement.
• EU justifies provocative actions saying it is providing “humanitarian assistance.”

By HERB KEINON, TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

The EU is building hundreds of illegal structures in the West Bank, which the government has not removed in order to avoid a diplomatic tangle with the Europeans, according to a report released Friday by the NGO, Regavim. The structures are being built near Ma’aleh Adumim and its E1 area.

The blue EU logo seen on new modular structures in an illegal Beduin encampment in the Judean hills outside the Ma’alen Adumim settlement.

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| December 11, 2014
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Cyprus, Greece & Israel push for EU gas pipeline link

 

Cypriot & Greek officials say the pipeline, linking Israel, Cyprus, Italy and Greece, would reinforce the European Union’s energy security with its 8-12 billion cubic meter capacity.

The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Cyprus says it has joined with Israel and Greece to get the European Union to consider a pipeline that would link the continent with newly found natural gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean.

A statement Tuesday said Cypriot Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis and his Greek counterpart Yiannis Maniatis pitched the idea to European Commission Energy Union chief Maros Sefcovic.

The officials told Sefcovic in Monday’s meeting that the proposed East-Med Corridor would have a capacity of 8 billion to 12 billion cubic meters and would link Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy.

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| November 25, 2014
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Vote on Palestine recognition by EU Parliament postponed

The postponement is due in part to Germany’s opposition to recognizing a Palestinian state prior to peace with Israel.

By HERB KEINON

 

A vote by the European Parliament in Strasbourg over whether to recognize a Palestinian state was postponed Tuesday from later this week to mid-December.

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EU flags – Photo: REUTERS

Israeli diplomatic officials said the move was pushed off from Thursday for three reasons: difficulties have emerged between the various parties regarding the language of the resolution; opposition by some members of the various parties – especially from Germany – to the resolution; and intensive work by Israeli diplomats in Brussels to postpone the vote, hoping to gain more time to change minds.

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| November 17, 2014
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Secret Document Revealed to Foreign Ministry Proves EU Sanctions Policy Against Israel

Israeli diplomats learned the EU has secretly distributed a document to member-states outlining harsh restrictions against Israel for ‘red lines’ – like new home construction for Jews in Jerusalem.

By Ari Yashar

 

The European Union (EU) has sent a secret document to its 28 member states detailing sanctions to be taken against Israel, if it takes moves the EU feels compromises the creation of an Arab state of ‘Palestine’ inside Israel.

The paper, drafted by the European External Action Service (EEAS), was distributed to European diplomats who were told not to show it to Israel yet, according to Haaretz. Continue Reading »

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| November 10, 2014
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EU Chief: Divide Jerusalem – Israel’s PM: Not a Chance

EU’s new Foreign Policy Chief, insists that the Palestinians must have a state with Jerusalem as its capital, and that is ‘a necessity for the world at large.’

By Ryan Jones

 

The European Union’s new foreign affairs chief, Federica Mogherini, visited the region over the weekend and insisted on the urgent need for a Palestinian state with the eastern half of Jerusalem as its capital.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. – Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO

“We need a Palestinian state – that is the ultimate goal and this is the position of all the European Union,” said Mogherini while in the Gaza Strip, adding later during her stop in Ramallah that “Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states.”

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| November 5, 2014
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EU’s new foreign policy chief wants a Palestinian state within next 5 years

Federica Mogherini, who took over from Catherine Ashton on Saturday as EU foreign policy chief, says reaching Israeli-Palestinian peace will be main goal of her term.

 

The European Union’s new foreign policy chief said on Monday that she wants to see the creation of a Palestinian state by the end of her five-year term in office.

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels, November 4, 2014

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels, November 4, 2014 – Photo: Reuters

Federica Mogherini told reporters that one of her main goals will be to work toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and that she intends the EU to be more intimately involved in the Middle East than in the past. Continue Reading »

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| October 22, 2014
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EU Hypocrisy: Financial Assistance to Abbas’ PA Violate Oslo Accords

NGO finds European Union funding illegal Palestinian Authority settlements in Israeli territory as breach of Oslo Accords, especially as EU makes new push for sanctions on Israel.

By Ari Soffer

 

An Israeli NGO is set to release a report it says shows tens of cases in which the European Union has actively worked to breach the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, by changing the facts on the ground in Area C to unilaterally harm Israel in final status talks with the Palestinians.

Illegal Palestinian building in Area C

Illegal Palestinian building in Area C – Regavim

The report is significant as it comes at the same time as the EU has made a renewed push to threaten Jerusalem with sanctions if Israel makes “unilateral moves” which European states deem to be harmful to their vision of a “two-state solution.” Continue Reading »

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| October 7, 2014
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West Bank academics ditch London event rather than acquiesce & hide their identity

Ariel University describes London meeting, in which lecturers were asked not to reveal their affiliation with ‘West Bank’ school, as absurd & hypocritical.

 

Lecturers from Ariel University refused to attend a London conference after organizers asked them to hide their affiliation with the West Bank institution, according to Israeli media reports.

Ariel U.

Ariel University. – Photo: Moti Milrod

The university issued an official statement on Thursday, after the Times Higher Education Magazine reported on the incident earlier last week.

The event, which took place in September, “is an extreme manifestation of hypocrisy and absurdity,” the statement read. “While the conference organizers are interested in research and researchers of Ariel University, they are trying to ignore the existence of the institution where these studies have emerged.

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| September 1, 2014
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Jerusalem responds favorably to EU appointments

Opportunity presents itself for Israel to improve its ties with the European Union

Israel gets ‘friend’ in Tusk, Polish Prime Minister now new president of the European Council.

 

Israeli officials warmly welcomed Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s appointment as president of the European Council on Sunday, but were more reserved at news that Italy’s Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini would replace Catherine Ashton as the EU’s foreign policy chief.

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Donald Tusk, Herman Van Rompuy, Federica Mogherini during EU summit in Brussels on Saturday – Photo: REUTERS

The more reserved reception toward Mogherini was because of lack of familiarity with the 41-year-old diplomat, who startled many when she was tapped – seemingly out of nowhere – as Italy’s foreign minister only six months ago. Continue Reading »

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| August 17, 2014
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Israel Not Interested in UN ‘War Crimes’ Facade

The EU & US join Jerusalem in calling the UN’s commission a biased spectacle that cannot possibly produce true justice

By Ryan Jones

 

Israel, the United States and the European Union have all dismissed a UN commission of inquiry into possible war crimes committed during the Gaza war as little more than a sideshow with a foregone conclusion.

Canadian Prof. William Schabas

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday named a three-man panel to investigate allegations of Israeli war crimes during the Jewish state’s month-long battle against Gaza’s terrorist infrastructure.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the committee amounted to a “kangaroo court” whose findings were “predetermined.”

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| July 13, 2014
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Holland tells Palestinians: Stop paying convicted terrorists’ pensions & salaries

Holland donates $88 million each year for direct PA aid, where the Dutch believe $5.5 million goes to rewarding convicted criminals & terrorist with huge monthly salaries and pensions.

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The Dutch parliament passed a motion calling for an end to salaries that the Palestinian Authority pays to terrorists.

Palestinian protester.

A Palestinian protester holds placards during a demonstration to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israel, outside the Red Cross building in Jerusalem, June 10, 2014. – Photo: Reuters

The motion, which passed unanimously, was supported by the 148 lawmakers who voted on the motion. The Dutch lower house, or the Tweede Kamer, has 150 members.

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| June 27, 2014
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€1Million a year, & 7 years later, the EU still funds Gaza employees that have no work

The EU’s Gaza farce marches on: Although 7 years later, the EUBAM mission is still on ‘standby’, and the euros are still flowing.

 

In the Sir Humphrey-esque world of European Union waste, the EUBAM mission in Gaza might just be the jewel in the crown.

At the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. September 19, 2013.

At the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. September 19, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

Sir Humphrey, you may recall, took great pride in the perfect efficiency of a hospital that operated within budget and had no waiting-lists. Its only problem and the reason for its success: No patients.

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