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It is clear that Israel will apply this agreement on its territory. A compromise solution might be to include in the Protocol only a vague reference as regards the territories in which the Protocol must be applied. This is called ‘constructive vagueness’. The view of the EU is that a Palestinian state should be established on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is a political opinion and lacks any basis in international law. Palestine has never existed historically and the Palestinian people are a political projection that lacks any ethnic basis. The only possibility for creating a Palestinian state would be if the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) entered into an agreement with Israel, and the PLO is not prepared to do this. This should not be allowed to influence the EU’s activities. The EU wrongly asserts that East Jerusalem and the West Bank are ‘occupied Palestinian territories’. The Mandate for Palestine made provision for the creation of closed Jewish settlements in Jerusalem and on the western flank of the River Jordan, in other words on the West Bank too. Hence the settlements established by Israel do not contravene international law, but only EU political and legislative resolutions, which, conversely, do contravene international law. I repeat, the EU should not interfere in this debate, especially as it is in the wrong. Baroness Ashton’s condemnation of Israeli settlement construction is unfounded."@en1
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