"EU efforts to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians include funding anti-Semitic Palestinian organizations and schoolbooks and censuring nations intending to locate embassies in Jerusalem". The author is being quite facetious. In other words, they are working towards keeping the Palestinians as enemies of Israel.
You'd think that after experiencing the 2nd World War, Europe would act differently towards the Jewish people. So many had swallowed the line of the Nazis in the first place of Jews being 3rd class citizens and blaming all their mishandlings of their government on the Jews, and now they swallow everything the Palestinians say against the Israelis. A few Europeans, probably in fear for their own lives, aided and abetted the Nazis in finding Jews to slaughter during the war. while a few helped Jews to safety. That very old, very deep anti-Semitic feeling was very strong though under the surface in good times, and during Germany's economic break-down, surfaced loud and clear, and it is still there. Nazi sympathizers have been popping up even in Portland, Oregon.
Since 1998, Israel and the EU have been in dispute over the legal treatment of products exported to the EU from the occupied Palestinian territories (they mean Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem). Israel argues that these are produced in its customs territory and should thus be subject to the Association Agreement and benefit from preferential treatment. The EU maintains that the Territories are not part of Israel, and are illegal under international law, and such products do not therefore benefit from preferential treatment.
Soda Stream is one business made here. Until 2015, its principal manufacturing facility was located in the Mishor Adumim industrial park in the West Bank, creating controversy and a boycott campaign. In October 2015, under pressure from BDS activists, SodaStream closed its factory in Ma'ale Adumim and moved to a new facility in Lehavim, and laid off more than 500 Palestinian workers in the process.
The bizarre fact is that the Palestinians benefited by working for Soda
Stream, the only business there.
We cannot forget our past history and Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. It was the
night that all Jewish businesses were broken into; the glass facing the streets broken, the end of their businesses.
The EU and UN together have 1,769 issues on the docket about Israel of concern from the end of February to the present day. One of them of recent days is concern of homes and buildings of Palestinians in East Jerusalem that are being razed. The issue, once looked into, is over city plans and lack of building permits. Jerusalem is no longer a divided city but a unified one; Israel's most important city of the past 3 thousand years plus.
Resource:
https://www.factsandlogic.org/how-the-european-union-obstructs-peace-between-israel-and-the-palestinians/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notification&utm_campaign=vwo_notification_1601339682&vwo_powered=1
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/eu-local-statement-on-the-demolitions-of-palestinian-structures-in-the-occupied-west-bank/
https://www.un.org/unispal/document-source/european-union-eu/
https://www.un.org/unispal/document-source/european-union-eu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93European_Union_relations
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/186776
I tell about how Europe was like this 2,000 years ago in the Roman Empire: https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2015/03/jews-during-eastern-roman-empire.html
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