Israel served as ‘main course’ at EU dinner, official says

By HERB KEINON:

Worry in Israel that EU wants Quartet concessions to PA in return for dropping UN bid; J’lem frustrated EU dinner lacked Israeli presence.

Quartet envoys are expected to meet in Brussels at the end of the week amid increasing concern in Jerusalem that the EU hopes to avert a Palestinian statehood bid at the UN in September by, as one senior Israeli official said on Wednesday, “giving something” significant to the Palestinians.

According to the official, the concern was that the EU is pushing for the adoption of US President Barack Obama’s formula of restarting negotiations using the pre-1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps as a baseline, but without pressing the Palestinians to elaborate on security arrangements of any future accord with Israel.

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