Israel Matzav

Europeans to ban 'settlers' from entering EU?

The European Union would like to ban Jewish (only) residents of Judea, Samaraia and 'east' Jerusalem from entering their Islamifying palace in an effort to pressure Israel to accept their national suicide plan for us. For now, they will settle for banning Jews with 'criminal' records. There's one small problem: Some of those Jews also carry European passports.

While the diplomats say they are only at an early point in planning their diplomatic "warfare," one move they are threatening to take is imposing a travel ban on Jewish residents of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem who have any criminal history.

"The paperwork has been done but it is frozen for now," one official said. "It is basically a blacklist of violent settlers who have been accused of or convicted of crimes. It would prevent them from traveling to Europe."

Such a move would likely prevent roughly 100 to 200 people from entering the EU, but may have legal complications given that some of those affected hold European passports.

They're also talking about cutting relations with Israel's banks.

Such a step would involve strictly applying regulations in the Association Agreement signed between the EU and Israel in 1995.

In Article 83 of the agreement, it is stipulated that the agreement applies to the territory of the state of Israel, which one official said may mean banks operating in Judea and Samaria that the EU does not consider part of Israel could be targeted."

"I'm not saying we should stop dealing with Israeli banks, but it's an issue that has been raised and some would say we need to look at it in more detail," said the unnamed ambassador to Israel.

The ambassador also stated "no one is talking about imposing trade sanctions on Israel. But there is a very high level of frustration and there are many instruments at our disposal to make that frustration clear."

Another senior diplomat threatened that Europe's patience is "wearing thin."

 And you thought that John Kerry was obsessed with Israel....

Labels: BDS, European obsession with Israel, European Union, Schengen visa, two-state solution

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:59 PM