http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/370599.html
Israel was also left off the list of eligible nations, also for reasons of national security.
Notes the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com, in today's "best of the web" (
link ), "If the EU-niks want to show that they're motivated by principle rather than greed, they ought to protest Israel's exclusion as well as their own."