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JERUSALEM, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A British plan to label vegetables grown in Israeli settlements on the West Bank has angered the Israeli government.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is scheduled to visit Israel and other Middle Eastern countries next week, said that the plan is an enforcement of existing trade agreements, Haaretz reported Friday. But Israeli officials fear it could be used to launch a consumer boycott in Britain and other EU countries.
"This initiative is a serious and substantial problem in relations between the two countries, and is generating a sense of crisis," a senior Israeli diplomat told the newspaper.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, leader of the Kadima Party, urged Miliband to drop the plan. She argued that it is the equivalent of a vote by universities in Britain to ban Israeli academics from speaking engagements.
About 200,000 Israeli Jews now live in the settlements, and their future is a major issue in any plan for creation of a Palestinian state.
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