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"en.20121023.45.2-553-375"2
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"The adoption of this Protocol is deplorable and demonstrates the EU’s hypocritical position with regard to human rights. This strengthening of trade relations between the EU and Israel – based on the removal of technical trade barriers by harmonising legislation and infrastructure (principle underlying the Conformity Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products) – is occurring at a time when systematic violations by Israel of the most basic rights of the Palestinian people are on the increase. It comes just a few days after Israel advanced into new settlements, in flagrant breach of international law and innumerable United Nations resolutions. Violations of human rights are occurring on a daily basis in the Occupied Territories, from where some of the products covered by this Protocol may come. The EU is turning a blind eye and putting business first. This policy of double standards becomes clearly apparent when you consider the human rights violations cited in order to impose various types of sanctions on other states, such as the recent case of Iran, where the ‘nuclear threat’ was also cited. However, this is now conveniently forgotten in the case of Israel, despite it being the only nuclear power in the region which recently refused to participate in the UN Conference in Helsinki on ‘A Nuclear Weapons-Free Middle East’."@en1
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