1.0 link 226611 <![CDATA[EU Slams Israel On Settlements]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/06/eu-slams-israel-on-settle_n_226611.html The Foreign Ministry on Monday said the EU ambassador to Israel was called in for explanations after the European Commission said Israel's settlement policy helps strangle the Palestinian economy and makes the Palestinian government more dependent on foreign aid.

In an unusually harsh statement Monday, the commission said that "it is the European taxpayers who pay most of the price of this dependence."

The commission says expropriation of fertile land for Israeli settlements, roads that serve settlers only and West...

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