If nothing else, European officials at least get credit for consistency. For decades, in war and peace, terror and calm, they have not flagged in the belief that they can engineer their vision of peace for Israel.
Having failed in so many previous attempts,
the European move is another step in the effort to impose its preferred
policies, via the labeling of products from the post-1967 “occupied
territories” in order to create economic pressure on Israel. The next
step would be to ban these products, and then to single out all Israeli
items. (As perpetual victims, Palestinians are deemed to be exempt from
contributing to peace, real or imagined.)
In this context, the claim by the European
Union’s ambassador in Tel Aviv that labeling Israeli goods from beyond
the Green Line isn’t a big deal was disingenuous. “You seem to be very
proud of your own settlement enterprise,” Lars Faaborg-Anderson said in an interview with journalist Raphael Ahrens, “so why is this such a big problem?” His condescension was, to put it mildly, out of line.
The marking of products from beyond the 1949
armistice lines goes far beyond another awkward EU attempt to impose its
ideas on Israeli democracy. Product labeling is the embodiment of a
strategy to delegitimize Israel and the right of the Jewish people to
sovereign equality. It is central to the political war embodied in BDS —
boycott, divestment and sanctions — whose stated objective is not
peace, but rather “the complete international isolation of Israel.”
To answer Faaborg-Andersen’s sarcastic
question, this is the reason that EU product labeling “is this such a
big problem.” Behind the facade of promoting peace, demonization is used
to justify terror, including false war crimes accusations and BDS
campaigns.
Although those promoting this agenda use
different methods than the terrorists stabbing Israelis in Jerusalem,
Petah Tikvah and Tel Aviv, they have the same goals. Read more.
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