Paris – France is warning companies trading with Israeli settlers in the West Bank of the legal risks stemming from doing business in the settlements that it says are “illegal under international law.”
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A statement posted on the foreign ministry website this week says “financial transactions, investments, purchases and other economic activities in the settlements or benefiting them carry legal and economic risks connected to the settlements being, according to international law, built on occupied land.”
The statement also urges anyone considering doing business in the settlements to obtain appropriate legal advice before proceeding.
The warning comes amid growing international impatience with the settlements, which the U.S. and European Union have long said are an obstacle to peace between Israel and Palestine.
This from a country that collaborated with the Nazis in rounding up Jews to end off to gas chambers.
Suprise, Surprise, Surprise!!!
We can always count on our French “friends” to be on the wrong side. Jews should leave in droves and instead go where they’re welcome. Let them enjoy their Musilim population and see what they can contribute to French society other than terror.
this coming from a country whos world status keeps falling
Well then French companies including their High Speed Rail company should be boycotted as well by Israel.
What a shame for France to post such a comment on the French Foreign Affairs Ministry website. Specially that their statement is wrong: the villages erected in the territories occupied by the arabs are not illegal in regard to international law.
That said, a couple more elements to highlight the situation: first, that ministry, no matter how right or left the French government was, has always been anti-Israel (along with Ecology’s and Culture’s, as opposed to Defense’s and Economy’s) and, second was there an international law the Israeli villages broke, the Ministry should have quoted the law’s code. Anyway, I think no business in France is going to care about their statement.
Viva la France! “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”. Thoroughly enjoy your much vaunted cuisine and your Moslem immigrants!
Maybe they’d just like to put a yellow star and “Jude” on Jewish shops, while they’re at it. Next month, they’ll be handing out the stones for the plate-glass windows.
During World War 2 the French helped the Germans to get rid of the Jews. Since than thousands of Muslems have entered France and now make up over 12% of the population. In less than 25 years France will be fully occupied by the Muslems and they will be the majority. Today hundreds of churches are being converted into mosques. Nobody goes to church anymore.These Muslems breed like rabbits. The average French family has only one child and a dog. Dogs don’t have the right to vote yet.
Judaea and Samaria could use some private middle-man companies to hide their dealings from the nations who make up their own international law and pervert justice.
We do not need to buy any French products, from wine to perfume, dresses, etc. Buy Made in USA or Israel!!