But it would be odd for the U.S. once again to veto a U.N. resolution condemning settlements, especially after the State Department supported the European Union's insistence that products from settlements be labelled as such.
Another law makes it illegal to call for consumer boycotts of products from settlements.
Moreover, they give their own consumers the free choice of whether to buy products from settlements.
The British and Danish governments have already taken the lead by adopting simple labelling guidelines which allow consumers to distinguish between products from settlements, those made in Israel, and Palestinian products.
Drugmaker Eli Lilly said Thursday that it slid to a second-quarter loss from year-ago profit due to a recent product liability settlement over Zyprexa, its top selling anti-psychotic treatment.
Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of right-wing opposition party Yisrael Beiteinu, expressed his sympathy to France but said that Europe should have spent less time "busying itself with labeling products from settlements at a time when the Middle East is burning in Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen".
That's important, as the last thing carmakers want is to be held liable for accidents caused by the driver's own inexperience, lack of attention or stupidity no matter how well he is assisted.As it is, product-liability settlements have cost the motor industry billions.
It is understandable that Palestinians are supporting boycotts of products made in settlements, however, since the settlements are illegitimate and must not be legitimized.
By denying this label to settlement products, international governments protect and reinforce the pre-1967 border.
Hundreds of volunteers in the West Bank today distributed lists of 500 Israeli settlement products they want shoppers to boycott.
