EU angers Israel with settlement decision - Wed, 17 Jul 2013 PST

July 17, 2013 in Nation/World

Ian Deitch Associated Press

JERUSALEM ? Israel?s prime minister on Tuesday harshly criticized a European Union decision to ban funding for Israeli institutions that operate in the Palestinian?territories.

The new guidelines will block EU cooperation grants for Israeli entities that operate in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians for their future?state.

The EU decision amounts to a diplomatic condemnation of Israeli settlement construction in these territories and, in effect, endorses the Palestinian position that a future border should be based along the 1967?lines.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu??

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JERUSALEM ? Israel?s prime minister on Tuesday harshly criticized a European Union decision to ban funding for Israeli institutions that operate in the Palestinian?territories.

The new guidelines will block EU cooperation grants for Israeli entities that operate in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians for their future?state.

The EU decision amounts to a diplomatic condemnation of Israeli settlement construction in these territories and, in effect, endorses the Palestinian position that a future border should be based along the 1967?lines.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent the day meeting with senior Cabinet ministers to discuss the funding?cut.

?We will not accept any external edicts about our borders,? Netanyahu said. He said any decision about his nation?s land could only be resolved through direct negotiations with the?Palestinians.

Netanyahu said that the Europeans should deal with what he called ?slightly more urgent? matters in the region, including the civil war in Syria and the Iranian nuclear?program.

To obtain EU funding from 2014 on, Israeli projects will be required to sign a clause stipulating they operate within the country?s pre-1967 borders and not in east Jerusalem, the West Bank or Golan?Heights.

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