European diplomats recommended imposing visa bans on \”violent\” Israeli settlers, as Denmark helped organize a workshop on labeling settlement goods in the European Union.
A new report by 22 aid, development and church groups from nine European Union (EU) countries calls for the EU to stop buying goods from Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Jewish businesses in East Jerusalem.
The EU foreign policy chief said on Saturday that comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called Israel a \”cancerous tumor\” with no place in a future Middle East, were \”outrageous and hateful.\”
The European Union has included parts of the central Israel municipality of Modi\’in on its list of settlements.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday it was time to ramp up sanctions against Iran to try to curb its nuclear program after discussing the matter with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
European Union foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels slammed Israel for threatening the viability of a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Iran accused Europeans on Monday of waging \”psychological warfare\” after the EU banned imports of Iranian oil, and President Barack Obama said Washington would impose more sanctions to address the \”serious threat presented by Iran\’s nuclear program.\”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Monday a European Union decision to place sanctions on Iranian oil exports, but said it was unclear if the move could thwart Tehran\’s nuclear ambitions. \”I think this is a step in the right direction,\” Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud faction in parliament.
The European Union approved an extra $124 million in emergency aid to the Palestinians to supplement tax moneys frozen by Israel. \”It is important that access to essential public services remains uninterrupted and the right to social services is respected,\” Reuters on Friday quoted Catherine Ashton, the E.U. foreign policy chief, as saying.
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