Source: Guardian
Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Restatement of position by Brussels reflects important changes on the ground in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
Ian Black, Middle East editor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 July 2013 17.39 BST
European policy guidelines are composed of small print and impenetrable bureaucratic language that are the product of long hours of wrangling in committee rooms in Brussels, but they can still send out a powerful signal. The furious reaction of the Israeli government underlines an important point about the world's most intractable conflict: Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territory are not considered part of the state of Israel under international law.
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