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Source: http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/88135/eu-real-problem-not-latvia
The EU's Israel Problem
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Daniel Hannan - Eurocrats are happier hectoring Israel than dealing with the euro. Almost every European Parliament session brings a condemnatory resolution, a proposal to restrict trade, or a demand for differential labeling for exports from "occupied Palestine." Yet the reason most Euro-enthusiasts resent Israel is that it is the supreme embodiment of the national principle - the desire of every people to form their own state. In doing so, they invalidated the intellectual basis of European integration. The EU is built on the idea that national loyalties are arbitrary and dangerous. If Israel's story is legitimate - if people really are better off living under their own laws within national groups - then everything Brussels has done since 1956 is wrong. No wonder that Israelis find it hard to get a fair hearing there. The writer is a Conservative MEP.