[quote]Israel has condemned new European Union guidelines banning EU funding of projects in territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war. From 2014, such agreements with Israel will exclude East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Israeli minister Silvan Shalom said the measure was a "big mistake" which cast doubt on the EU's impartiality in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.[/quote] Basically the EU doesn't seem to acknowledge Israel's expansion and honestly I agree with the EU. Israel always playing the victim and yet it's picking a fight with Iran and Palestine, they might have lots of enemies in the region but they are not helping themselves. And having the EU and USA to fall back on isn't helping them change their attitude, they are deliberately stopping any progress on Palestine becoming a sovereign state so they can continue to expand. [quote]"Europeans are making a big mistake once again. They always would like to play a key role in the peace process but once again they are showing us that they cannot play a key role because they don't have a balanced attitude towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Mr Shalom told the BBC. "If they would like really to help the peace process, they should not come with those decisions and those ideas. I would like to remind my friends the Europeans, that... the Israeli government in the past took many decisions to evacuate settlements and they didn't need Europeans to show them what to do."[/quote] What a plonker