New efforts to raise awareness among European businesses about the risks of working with settlements, and the advancement of voluntary guidelines for tourism operators to prevent support for settlement business.
While those in the west and within Israel have hailed Peres as a peacemaker, many Palestinians and those from Arab nations have questioned his record, citing his involvement in successive Arab-Israeli wars, the occupation of Palestinian territory and his support for settlement building before his work on Oslo.
The tariff review is aimed at cutting off indirect economic support for settlements in the occupied territories, European officials said.
Even though support for settlements reflects the perspective of a small minority of American Jews, it increasingly appears to be the policy stance of major pro-Israel groups.
Heritage tours to Hebron were introduced as a way of increasing support for settlements and the idea of Greater Israel.
It would be one thing if support for settlements were just a phenomenon of the Israeli extreme right and a handful of American zealots, but it's not.
"Well over 30,000 class members have already submitted claim forms electing to participate in the settlement, indicating support for a settlement, which Ms. Peters herself described in a November 18 , 2011 e-mail to class counsel as 'one of the best class action settlements I have ever seen,'" he wrote.
After that has happened, the government needs to get support for that settlement.
Mr Paisley's dark shadow, damning all compromise, has been largely responsible for Mr Trimble's difficulty in delivering moderate unionist support for a settlement.
But the American ambassador, Susan E. Rice, said the veto should not be misconstrued as American support for further settlement construction, which the United States opposes.
For example, Mr. Peres played an important role, in the mid-1970s, in getting government support for Jewish settlement in the occupied territories.
