Directive européenne hostile à Israël: l'Allemagne se démarque de l'Union européenne

Le porte-parole du Parlement allemand, le Bundestag, a déclaré que les "recommandations" anti-israéliennes de l'Union européenne sont de la pure idéologie et de la politique symbolique que ne feront pas avancer la cause de la paix. Toute l'Europe est loin d'être fière de l'acharnement contre Israël de certains pays de l'Union européenne et du deux poids deux mesures décomplexé dont ils font preuve: on ferme les yeux sur les violations aux droits de l'homme dans beaucoup de pays, mais on crie au scandale quand Israël, en vraie démocratie, défend ses citoyens, juifs, arabes et autres. L'Allemagne de Mme Merkel a prouvé à de nombreuses reprises qu'elle n'entend pas jouer ce petit jeu pervers et hypocrite.  Contexte: La déclaration officielle de Catherine Ashton concernant les directives européennes fixant, de fait, les "frontières" d’Israël : un petit chef d’œuvre d’hypocrisie

Benjamin Weinthal @ Jerusalem Post: Germany backs away from EU settlement directives:

Germany distances itself from the "controversial European Union guidelines" banning cooperation with Israeli entities beyond the Green Line, a foreign policy spokesman in the Bundestag announced on Friday.

In a statement issued by MP Philipp Missfedler, the Bundestag spokesman for German chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party and its coalition partner the Bavarian Christian Social Union, he stated the guidelines are “pure ideology and symbolic politics” and will not contribute to finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Missfelder stated it is encouraging that the Federal Government has moved away from the new EU directives, which declared that from January 1 2014, Israeli projects in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights will no longer be given European Union financial backing. He added that the European regulations are not “objective requirements” because over the last seven years of the approximately 800 million Euros of financial aid from Brussels to Israel, only 0.5% was funneled into projects covering the disputed territories.

“Israel is the recognized administrative power in the territories without which approved development projects like solar energy or sewage works could not be installed," Missfelder stated.

He continued that an implementation of the new EU guidelines could mean an “end of research cooperation with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem because some of their academics have an address in East Jerusalem."


It is unclear if the German position will reverse the EU action and lead to backtracking among other countries within the 28 member EU body.

Missfelder said the EU guidelines have a similar quality to the recent legislative initiative of the Green Party in the Bundestag to label products from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. [...]