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Source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=253459
Critical EU Paper Draws Fire from Israeli Officials
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Israeli diplomatic sources on Thursday slammed another EU report highly critical of Israeli policies, saying it will make the Europeans "feel good about themselves" but have no effect on the ground. The document, titled "Area C and Palestinian State Building," concludes that Israeli actions in Area C of the West Bank "continuously undermined" the Palestinian population. Area C is mostly rural and includes only 6% of the Palestinian population. "At a certain point, the Europeans are going to have to engage Israel, and not only the Palestinians, when they write these reports," one Israeli source said. "It's as if Israel does not exist, does not have its own version of events, reality, reasons, policy, or policy-making process." He said the report consisted of the EU and the Palestinians talking to themselves and then coming to conclusions that were belied by the situation on the ground. Diplomatic sources in Jerusalem pointed out that the document did not represent EU policy.