Tag: European Union
Lebanon warns neighbors not to use Israel-EU pipeline
Lebanon warned its neighbors on Thursday not to use a planned gas pipeline that will go from Israel to the European Union, citing a maritime border disagreement with the Jewish state, which it considers...
At Warsaw summit, Pence calls on EU to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday urged European Union nations to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear accord and stop attempting to circumvent U.S. sanctions.
Speaking at the Mideast summit in Warsaw, Pence said...
Bosnia required to return stolen World War II Jewish property before joining EU
The European Parliament set clear conditions this week for Bosnia and Herzegovina to start on the path to membership in the European Union: the enactment of legislation to regulate the restitution of property stolen...
How is the EU funding NGOs with ties to BDS?
Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs came out with a scathing report last month—its second on the issue—accusing the European Union of funding Palestinian and European organizations that promote BDS, the boycott of Israel. In...
Palestinian Authority spends six times more on terrorists than on own population
In its 2017 budget, the Palestinian Authority allocated NIS 550 million ($150 million) to pay salaries to terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners.
The salaries paid to these recipients, among them murderers, ranged from NIS...
EU sanctions Iranian intelligence unit, two staff members for terror plot
The European Union on Tuesday sanctioned an Iranian intelligence unit and a few members of its staff, as Holland accused the Islamic Republic of two murders in 2015 and 2017 on Dutch soil, joining Denmark and...
Jewish groups praise EU’s adoption of anti-Semitism declaration
Several Jewish groups praised the Council of the European Union for its unanimous adoption of a statement on combating anti-Semitism across the continent.
The measure, which was the first time the council’s 28-member states have...
The lethal error in appeasing Iran
When the Obama-brokered Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2015, one of the many spurious reasons offered for that agreement was that it would help the supposedly moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani draw the...
The European Union’s utopian approach to Iran
Europe’s attitude towards Iran, particularly with respect to the 2015 nuclear deal (the JCPOA) and related ballistic issues, is hard to understand. A collective desire to defy the US, which pulled out of the...
Netanyahu urges IAEA to send inspectors to Iran immediately
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday, hours after it issued a laconic statement dismissing his claim of a secret nuclear installation in Iran.
Netanyahu said the agency, which has...