Hotovely: 'Abbas's speech is a slap in the face to Europe'

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) met on Monday with the EU Ambassador to Israel, Emanuele Giaufret, and discussed the speech made a day earlier by Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas, in which he rejected the connection of the Jewish people to Israel and Jerusalem.

"The European Union must condemn Abu Mazen's statement that Israel is a colonial project of the Europeans," said Hotovely. “Abu Mazen's serious words in his speech yesterday, which are a combination of lies and condemnation of the American administration, deserve harsh criticism.”