Analysis: Israel ignores EU’s anti-settlement sentiment at its own peril

17.07.2013                      10.Aw.5773

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Analysis: Israel ignores EU's anti-settlement sentiment at its own peril

The new EU guidelines are the first concrete implementation of what some may have thought was just abstract policy after the constant drumbeat of pronouncements coming from Europe deafened Israel to the anti-settlement mood.

Until Tuesday, most people in Israel paid no attention to Paragraph 4 of the conclusions issued by the EU’s foreign ministers following their 3,209th meeting on December 10 in Brussels, chaired by Catherine Ashton….