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Greece to Defy EU Labeling of Israeli Products

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

Greece will not honor the European Union’s misguided effort to boycott Israel.

A day after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Jerusalem, his foreign minister Nikos Kotzias sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, informing him of the opposition by Athens to the EU guidelines, The Times of Israel has learned.

According to guidelines published earlier this month by the European Commission, goods manufactured over the 1949 armistice lines may not state that they were “Made in Israel.” Rather, they should be labeled with a formulation such as “Product from the West Bank (Israeli settlements),” the Commission suggested.

Read full story at The Times of Israel.

By: The Algemeiner

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