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January 15, 2016       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Edelstein-EU-must-not-fund-NGOs-who-send-Palestinians-to-their-deaths-441594

European Parliament President Opposes EU Labeling Plan

(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - European Parliament President Martin Schulz told visiting Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in Berlin Thursday that he was against the EU directive for member countries to specially label products from the West Bank, Golan Heights and east Jerusalem, saying "it mainly hurts Palestinians who make a decent wage there." Edelstein concurred: "Israel will survive the labeling. The ones who won't survive are thousands of Palestinian families who work shoulder to shoulder with their Jewish friends and coexist." Labeling "will hurt their economy, their lives, their families and will destroy the existing seeds of peace in the areas of employment." He added: "Europeans boycott wines from the Golan Heights....Who should we give the Golan to, Syria or ISIS?"

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