EU Envoy Slams Netanyahu's Accusations: We're Not Biased Against Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's assertion that European countries are biased against Israel is not true, the head of the European Union delegation to Israel said Wednesday.
"There's no basis to the accusations that we are one-sided," said the EU official, Lars Faaborg-Andersen.
He made the comments at a press briefing in Jerusalem on Wednesday in response to Netanyahu's statement last week that some EU states had summoned Israeli ambassadors so the countries could lodge a protest at Israel's construction of 1,400 housing units in the West Bank.
At the time, Netanyahu criticized the move as "hypocritical" and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the ambassadors of the four countries – Britain, France, Italy and Spain – to be summoned for a reprimand in Israel in return.
Faaborg-Andersen met with Lieberman and his deputy, Zeev Elkin, this week to discuss their criticism of EU conduct regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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