The Foreign Affairs Council appears to be totally lacking in any basic understanding of the facts that have resulted in the 130 years old conflict between Jews and Arabs still remaining unresolved .
The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union is just one of many organizations and political institutions that have been caught up in the rhetoric of their own statements leading them to repeat ad infinitum the false claim that Israeli settlements established in the West Bank during the last 43 years are illegal in international law and an obstacle to peace.