There are a total of 766 EU Parliamentarians. This will not lead to any change in EU policy towards boycotting the settlements which amongst the European population is a very popular policy. In fact you could call it a vote winner. The settlers are going to have to accept that their enterprise is over, and their time of holding 5.5million normal decent Israelis hostage is coming to an end

THIS IS Israel's PROBLEM!!!!! We keep asking anti-semites to like us - it ain't gonna happen. If they want access to our genius let them pay for it or let them stay in the dark ages.

and you can't stop building, it's a natural outcome of a growing nation. BUILD AND SAVE JEWS LIVES !!!!

The settlers and half of our government are promoting anti-semitism and endangering Israelis and Jews that have nothing to do with this around the world. I live in Israel and I do not support the entitled settlers and their righteous attitudes nor do any of my friends and family. Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel and should be negotiated to secure that, therefore there need to be some land swaps but all the settlers must find other pastures. Ps. They are not welcome in Tel Aviv

This pathetic venture to try and set up an EIPAC could only emerge from the wild fantasies of "Netanyahu-Spin"

Entitled settlers!!!?? They are entitled to live their lives in peace and quiet on land that is legally ours, won in a war that we did not start, taken from Israel and occupied by Jordan in 1948. They are every bit as "entitled" to live in yehuda and shomron as you are to live in - presumably - Tel Aviv or anywhere else in this country. People like you really are enemies of the state and contribute much towards the world's false perception of us as promoted by the palestinians and their friends - people like you and your friends. What an obnoxious person you are.

Even though many in Tel Aviv don't believe in Hashem, it is He who established the state of Israel and brought Jews back to Israel from all over the world. It is sad to read so many secular Jews seem to hate their fellow Jews with a hatred no less vitriolic than that of Arab murderers that Bibi keeps releasing. Sad.

Sure... give the peace-loving and kumvbaya singing Palestinians open access to the heart of Israel... and let the West Bank receive a flood of Palestinians from Jordan... and they will surely respect and live in peace with the land Israel presently sits upon.

...you're belong to genius? ?????

"The building of new settlements on Palestinian land is a key sticking point in Middle East peace talks. " Who gave ynet the authority to decide who the lands belong to?

Ashton is an Antisemite.

Israel is an excellent, profitable customer of the EU. EU/ Israel trade is currently in the EU's favor. In 2012 Israel sold 14 billion Euros to the EU while it bought 20 billion Euros. Israel has the power to make the EU and the PA the first casualties of any EU boycott. Israel can retaliate, freezing all EU development projects for the PA, embargoing all PA exports and imports. Israel collects a billion dollars in tax receipts from the PA, all of which can be taken in reprisal...You get the idea.

A country cannot increase its territory by simple conquest and certainly not without the explicit or tacit consent of the rest of the world. The civilian settlements of the occupied territories are illegal under international law, no matter what you and other similarly misguided people mistakenly believe. The world has been saying this since day one. And it is no longer willing to ignore Israel's "flagrant" violation of the law and the rights of the Palestinian people. Hope that the negotiations yield an agreement.

It seems that Turkey can take half of Cyprus and China can take Tibet and all is OK, no words from the EU? It seems that the EU when it comes to Jews, is still ant-Semitic, forget about the fact the Judea and Samaria belong to the Jews, wining it in the war against Jordan and owning it because the Bible and the Koran says so.

When laws are written, even by international authorities, are void when they conflict with the Law of G-d. One of the oldest documents in the world-the Bible is the testament which declares who owns the land...Israel. And FYI it extends up to Iraq. The day will come when G-d Himself fulfills the promise.

You are right that Jordan's illegal capture of Judea and Samaria during their war of genocide in 1948 is illegal. You are also right that the Arab attempt to steal Jewish land by inventing the "Palestinians" is illegal. You are wrong that Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria are illegal, and characterising Israel's defensive actions as "simple conquest" is a combination of stupidity and falsehood. As for "negotiations". Hamas representing 80% of the Arabs has declared all compromise illegal and genocide of the Jews a religious duty. Fatah, representing about 10% of the Arabs, is constitutionally obliged to ethnically cleanse all of Israel (not just Judea and Samaria) of Jews. If negotiations were for anything but eliminating the Jews, Abbas would have convened the PNC to change the PLO constitution. He hasn't.

Knesset and put the EU in charge of Israel? You are actually their hostage, not of the Jews living in Judea and Samaria. They will make sure you have "palestine" next to Tel Aviv and Akko, as no right-leaning government of Israel, even the government of appeasement of Netanyahu, will ever be suicidal and self-destructive enough for your likings.

Israeli civilian settlements in the occupied territories once known as Judea and Samaria are a direct and flagrant violation of international law. That's not my personal opinion, it is the opinion of the international community of nations including the EU and U.S., the UN Security Council, ICRC, High Contracting parties to the Geneva Convention and the International Court of Justice. Israel is, of course, free to resign from the United Nations and such a vote would certainly be more honest than claiming that the settlements are legal. Perhaps you think that this should be put to a vote?

"you are so beautiful, i'm so in love with you, i just can't help myself, tho' the Jews you try to screw; O Cathy my darling let's run away together, let's run away from the evil Jews and avoid them altogether."

all along I thought the USA increased its territory by simple conquest .Was I wrong?

Jewish Nation have simply retaken what has been taken away from them by force! Miss Ashton is no friend of Israel. She likes The Arab Oil and money better than Real Justice!!!

You have disclosed yourself by slipping "once known" between occupied territories and Judea&Samaria. So, what's the new and improved name? The West Bank? Hey dupe, you and other kapos like you may call them 'occupied ' but even Ashton uses the original Jewish names here and there in reference to these lands. So where's the balcony now? Ramallah? Tehran? Dahiyah? Don't satand on it for too long, you might catch a sniper bullet.

Brave words. From Belgium. have the decency to stfu.

We must feel that what we do by occupying the Territories and develop them further, will not bring us to peace. Ashton, please continue on your path, and teach us the only lesson that we seem understand, the lesson of the wallet... Israel is on the wrong path. Today we are one of the absolute biggest inventors and exporters of weaponry. This wasn't what God had in mind when he gave us the possibility to be the Chosen People and bring moral and peace to the world. " Overtaking China and Italy, Israel ranks as the world's sixth largest arms exporter in 2012. Israel's weapons sales jumped 74% since 2008, largely thanks to deals with India, according to IHS Jane's; U.S. tops the defence intelligence company's list of arms exporters, with more than $28 billion in defence deals in 2012."

You listen to, of all organiztions, the UN? The one that harbors the UNHRC? And you totally ignore history and current events (see post #17). Your post is bogus...it always is.

You say: "A country cannot increase its territory by simple conquest..." Right! But Israel recovered territories intended for the Jewish people, by international law, a decision voted unanimously by all the 51 members of the League of Nations in 1922. This decision called the Mandate for Palestine, gave the Jews the IRREVOCABLE RIGHT to settle, and create in a short future, an independent state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, including the Golan Heights. With the creation of the UN, an article was included in its charter, proclaiming that all the League's decisions that haven't been implemented yet, would be taken over by the UN for full implementation, including of course the League's decision about the Jewish rights! The UN cannot, and should not try to violate its own charter. And it should have been the duty of the successive Israeli governments to defend it’s by law obtained rights. But Israel’s blackout about this matter is the obsessional will to hide the fact that a Jewish independent state could have been born before World War II, but was disowned by the left oriented Jewish Agency, with the result of the Shoah. And you, you take advantage of this situation, to falsify facts. A shame for the lawyer you pretend to be!

and the governments settlement policies driven by those settlers within government.

end. In passing, I find it revealing that you think successive Israel governments have conspired to maintain a "blackout" on Israel's supposed irrevocable right to settle the occupied territories. But why should right wing governments have agreed to do this? Never mind FO, Law logic and rationality are lost on you. Wait for the negotiations.

And I ask constantly the same question: "why should right wing governments have agreed to this?" (a "blackout" on Israel's supposed -in your opinion- irrevocable right to settle the occupied - again in your opinion- territories?") As disowning the idea of creating a Jewish state before the Second World War, by the Leftist majority of the Zionist Organization (read introduction to "History of Zionism" by Nahum Sokolov) had as consequence the biggest tragedy in Jewish history, the Shoah, an actual denial of Jewish-Israeli legal rights can result in a new disaster in less than one century!