EU is directly building support for Palestine

“British parliament last month passed with a very big majority a bill to recognize the Palestinian state. The Irish parliament did the same. Sweden joined the group that recognizes Palestine. Poland had already done so in the past, and apparently France and Spain are going to join and so there seems to be a momentum and this time hopefully it will produce some results,” Farhang Jahanpour, a professor at the University of Oxford said in an interview.
 
“It is significant that the EU and many Euro countries have now got directly involved, including their foreign policy chief,” Jahanpour added.
 
The European Union’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, appointed last Sunday, immediately traveled to visit Israeli leaders.
 
Mogherini slammed the Israeli regime’s approval for the construction of 278 new illegal settler units in East Jerusalem al-Quds, saying Tel Aviv’s land grab plans are an obstacle to the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.
 
The remarks come at a time when the EU has decided to ban imports of dairy products made in Israeli settlements of the occupied West Bank as of January, 2015. In June, a similar ban was applied to poultry.