Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

May 11, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=0&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=382&PID=471&IID=1561&TTL=Israel,_The_European_Commission,_Europe,

Israel, the European Commission, Europe and the Netherlands

[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs] Interview with Frits Bolkestein by Manfred Gerstenfeld - The Israeli "file" at the European Commission is a difficult one. In recent years Israel has undoubtedly lost the publicity battle, due to the intifada and to perceptions about the security fence. Another factor is that people bow to numbers. There are hundreds of millions of Arabs and seven million Israelis. There is the issue that Arabs have much oil and could again some day impose an embargo. The fact that there are so many European Muslims, with their electoral power, has an influence on foreign policy. Finally, there is anti-Semitism which in Europe often dresses up as anti-Israelism. Frits Bolkestein is a former leader of the Netherlands' Liberal Party.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: