A group of former senior European officials have called on European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to change the EU policy on Middle East peace in favor of a more aggressive approach.
In a letter to Ashton obtained by Maariv, the former officials — who include Ashton’s predecessor Javier Solana, former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato, former French prime minister Lionel Jospin, and former EU Middle East envoy Miguel Moratinos — call on the EU to demand a full moratorium on Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and to redefine Israel as an occupying state, legally responsible for everything that happens in the West Bank.
