Britain toughens stance on Israel
UK announces ban on goods from illegal settlements, sanctions firms facilitating expansion and restrictions on settlement advertising as Britain joins France and Canada in a tougher international response writes Kaliph Anaz Britain has dramatically toughened its stance towards Israel, announcing a package of measures targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and declaring that it will no longer stand by as settlement expansion threatens to destroy the possibility of a two-state solution. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told the House of Commons that Britain would ban imports of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements, prohibit the advertising in Britain