{"id":4777,"date":"2018-09-20T13:23:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2019-04-21T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T13:28:43","slug":"israel-ruining-its-own-reputation-eu-parliament-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/?p=4777","title":{"rendered":"Israel ruining its own reputation: EU Parliament member"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Green Party and EU Parliament member urges Israel to modify actions, policy vis-\u00e0-vis Palestinians <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thumbs_b_c_f03cea96d1f26364cf1716dfcc10c1f4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thumbs_b_c_f03cea96d1f26364cf1716dfcc10c1f4.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thumbs_b_c_f03cea96d1f26364cf1716dfcc10c1f4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thumbs_b_c_f03cea96d1f26364cf1716dfcc10c1f4-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> By Mustafa Deveci<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JERUSALEM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli plans to demolish Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village in East Jerusalem, will adversely affect the prospects for peace, Margrete Auken, a Danish member of the European Parliament (EP), has said.Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Thursday, Auken &#8212; a Green Party member and vice-chair of the EP\u2019s Delegation for Relations with Palestine &#8212; said that Israel\u2019s image was being tarnished by its actions and policies vis-\u00e0-vis the Palestinians.\u201cThis behavior threatens Israel and its reputation,\u201d Auken said.\u201cIt [Israel] used to have a reputation for democracy in the region,\u201d she added. \u201cBut this reputation is being tarnished due to the inhuman way it is treating the Palestinians.\u201dShe described Israeli behavior towards the Palestinians as \u201carrogant and discriminatory\u201d, which, she said, \u201cbrings disgrace on both Israel and Europe, because we [the EU] aren\u2019t taking real action\u201d.The EU, Auken said, can use \u201clegal means\u201d at its disposal by which it might pressure Israel to modify its behavior, including the imposition of trade restrictions.\u201cIf you think you want to save Israel, which I still do, then the only hope they have is to save the Palestinians,\u201d she asserted.Regarding the EU\u2019s response to Israeli plans to demolish the village of Khan al-Ahmar, she said that if the plan was carried out, the EU\u2019s response would &#8212; she hopes &#8212; be \u201ctough\u201d.When asked if the recent U.S. decision to move its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem had changed Israel\u2019s attitude towards the Palestinians, Auken said: \u201cNow they [the Israelis] feel they can do whatever they want to more easily.\u201d\u201cI hope Europe will now see how important its role is,\u201d she added. \u201cThe EU does not have common foreign policy, which means we can make statements. But if actions are to be taken, they must be done by member states.\u201dEarlier this month, Israel\u2019s Supreme Court ruled to demolish Khan al-Ahmar and evict the village\u2019s Bedouin inhabitants.Israel hopes to expel some 10,000 Bedouin residents of the E1 Zone, which sits on 15 square kilometers of land in East Jerusalem, to make way for new Jewish-only housing units linking Jerusalem to the Maale Adumim settlement.If implemented, the plan would effectively cut the West Bank in two, preempting the possibility of a territorially contiguous Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders.*Mahmoud Barakat contributed to this report from Ankara <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Party and EU Parliament member urges Israel to modify actions, policy vis-\u00e0-vis Palestinians By Mustafa Deveci JERUSALEM Israeli plans to demolish Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village in East Jerusalem, will adversely affect the prospects for peace, Margrete Auken, a Danish member of the European Parliament (EP), has said.Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Thursday, Auken &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jahalin.org\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}