tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post5469741910502156173..comments2023-09-10T01:00:59.935-07:00Comments on The 70th Week: EU Deals Will Force Israel to Admit West Bank Outside Statethe70thweekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8576248543372108135.post-83962823607377782562013-07-16T16:25:35.973-07:002013-07-16T16:25:35.973-07:00When Europe demanded Israel surrender the Western ...When Europe demanded Israel surrender the Western Wall<br /><br />The European Union’s new directive banning any cooperation with Israeli institutions over the Green Line isn’t new, and is actually being implemented for Israel’s benefit, according to the office of the EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.<br /><br />The directive contains two main planks: denial of European funding to, and cooperation with, Israeli institutions based or operating over the Green Line, and a requirement that all future agreements between Israel and the EU — and possibly between Israel and individual member states as well — include a clause in which Israel accepts the European Union’s position that all territory over the Green Line does not belong to Israel.<br /><br />As Ashton’s office noted in a statement sent to The Times of Israel Tuesday, the directive was “in conformity with the EU long-standing position that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law and with the non-recognition by the EU of Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied territories irrespective of their legal status under domestic Israeli law.”<br /><br />....As another official noted, the EU’s new policy is in effect demanding that Israel deny — in writing — any rights to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, as a precondition for signing any agreement with the EU.<br /><br />Ashton’s office tried to explain that the development was a positive one for Israel.<br /><br />“This is important in view of the new opportunities that will be offered to Israel (as an ENP [European Neighborhood Policy] partner) for participation in EU programmes and other funding instruments in the 2014-2020 financial framework,” read the statement issued to The Times of Israel.<br /><br />“We want Israel to play a full part in these instruments and we want to be sure that Israel’s participation is not put in question so that Israel will be able to make use of all possibilities offered by the new financial framework,” it added.<br /><br />For more go here..http://www.timesofisrael.com/when-europe-accidentally-demanded-israel-surrender-the-western-wall/<br /><br />Things are getting really interesting.<br /><br />Curtthe70thweekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11275185162448311229noreply@blogger.com