commissioner could i welcome the assurance that trade relations will continue and could i encourage you not to be intimidated by the deluge of anti-israel propaganda and ask the commission to remember that with israel being one of very few democracies in that region it is important not to ostracise it or alienate it which would not promote peace at all
nor would such action sit comfortably with the tolerance that the eu has shown to many very despotic regimes right across the world
