The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, is expected to adopt and publish Wednesday a notice on how the member states must apply the legislation differentiating Israeli products coming from the settlements.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet US President Barack Obama at the White House Monday afternoon, the first meeting between the two men in more than a year and their first face-to-face encounter since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in July.
In a statement to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urged both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to ''demonstrate with acts'' that their commitment to the two-state solution ''is real and not just fake'' or ''just an empty slogan.''
France’s Supreme Court has confirmed a ruling that promoting a boycott against Israel is tantamount to ‘’inciting hate or discrimination,’’ upholding the convictions and fines on twelve anti-Israel activists.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the French government that he is ready to meet Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas “anytime and anywhere,’’ in a response to Paris’s attempt to arrange such a meeting in the French capital.
Mogherini after meeting with Netanyahu: ‘I had from him the clear commitment reaffirming that he wants to guarantee the status quo in the holy sites', EU foreign policy chief to meet Abbas in Brussels
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s failure to condemn terror is incompatible with making peace.
