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3-29-2009 9:27 PM
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British supermarkets are being pressed by critics of Israeli settlement policy to initiate a new labelling practice, whereby goods from Palestinian and Israeli producers are respectively marked as such, so that British consumers will know whether they are buying Israeli or Palestinian products.

What begins in the UK, the activists with whom I spoke this week further noted, could quickly spread to Europe - where, incidentally, there have already been some extremist-organized consumer protests against the sale of Israeli products, and where Sweden will soon be succeeding the notably more sympathetic-to-Israel Czech Republic as president of the EU.

...JPost
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3-30-2009 11:45 AM
abailart
The JP is critical of the claims, and suggests a counterclaim that the UK and by extension EU media are propagating falsehoods as part of an ideological campaign against Israel. This is in the context that the disparaged media tend to have an underlying claim that the Jerusalem Post is likely to support Israel whatever. The JP does accept at least the legitimacy 'legitimate criticism' (see above), and it appears to me that the criticisms levelled by the UK mainstream media have been detailed and fair, and specific to specific issues and events (rather than offered as examples to support a wider anti-Israel agenda).
3-30-2009 1:14 PM
gzuckier
that's what happens when your policies are determined more by how your party looks to the voters in your country than how your country looks to other countries.
3-30-2009 1:53 PM
ratcatcher2
One of the primary reasons for the Gaza debacle/fiasco was to influence the outcome of the Israeli election. Clearly that too was a failure.

This may turn out to be an even larger mistake than the 2006 Lebanon Invasion attempt.

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