'We are not boycotting Israel, we are boycotting settlements'Referring to the PA’s campaign to boycott settlement products, Abbas said that the measure was not directed at Israel, but only against the settlements.. “We’re not boycotting Israel because we have relations with it and we import from them,” he said. “We are only boycotting the settlements because we shouldn’t, under any circumstances, be consuming goods that were produced in settlements built on our lands.”Abbas said that the international community, specifically the Europeans, supported the anti-settlement campaign “because it is just and correct.”Herb Keinon contributed to this report “They have all determined that the settlements are illegal,” he explained. “So we are fighting against something that’s illegal. There’s nothing illegal about what we are doing, and this should not be seen as incitement.”An Israeli official, responding to Abbas’s backing of the boycott, said it would harm the Palestinians more than Israel.“There are some 25,000 Palestinians working in the settlements,” the official said, “and if you tell them they have to stop work tomorrow, and they don’t have a substitute for that income, this is going to cause problems for them.”
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'We are not boycotting Israel, we are boycotting settlements'Referring to the PA’s campaign to boycott settlement products, Abbas said that the measure was not directed at Israel, but only against the settlements.. “We’re not boycotting Israel because we have relations with it and we import from them,” he said. “We are only boycotting the settlements because we shouldn’t, under any circumstances, be consuming goods that were produced in settlements built on our lands.”Abbas said that the international community, specifically the Europeans, supported the anti-settlement campaign “because it is just and correct.”Herb Keinon contributed to this report “They have all determined that the settlements are illegal,” he explained. “So we are fighting against something that’s illegal. There’s nothing illegal about what we are doing, and this should not be seen as incitement.”An Israeli official, responding to Abbas’s backing of the boycott, said it would harm the Palestinians more than Israel.“There are some 25,000 Palestinians working in the settlements,” the official said, “and if you tell them they have to stop work tomorrow, and they don’t have a substitute for that income, this is going to cause problems for them.”