REPORT: Israeli settlements create diplomatic crisis between Israel, Western countries

       
The Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights were long regarded as a “fortune” for Israel on the economic and national levels. However, the latest EU resolution has created a diplomatic crisis between Israel and Western countries.          

The European Union has published new guidelines explicitly banning any EU funding of Israeli institutions operating in territories occupied since the 1967 Mideast war, despite vigorous Israeli objections.         

The EU holds that Jewish settlements in territories such as the West Bank and east Jerusalem are illegal. The Palestinians want some of those territories for their hoped-for state.      

This report will examine the aforementioned EU resolution and will expose the stances of the Israeli government which is lobbying the EU hard to postpone publication.           


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