Israel is upset that France will be requiring goods and produce made by Israelis in the Judean and Samarian [West Bank] areas to be labeled as such, not as products of Israel. The Israeli government is furious, and considers the requirement to be a possible death knell for those goods. Paris published guidelines on enforcing European Union (EU) regulations on produce from the West Bank, including annexed east Jerusalem, which the international community considers occupied Palestinian land, and the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967. -- The Independent The European Union considers the Eastern side of Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the "West Bank" as not part of Israel, but rather the possession of a soon-to-be Palestinian state; and they want the origin labeling to reflect that. Israel feels such labeling will mark out such products for boycott. The Israeli Foreign Ministry responded by saying it "regrets that France, which...(Read Full Article)