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EU foreign policy chief says Israeli settlements should be treated like Russian-occupied Crimea (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Kaja Kallas called for European governments to take a 'principled stance' to back a ban on trade from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eu-foreign-policy-chief-says-israeli-settlements-should-be-treated-russian-occupied-crimea

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[–] 17 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Or… or treat it like g- g- g-GENOCIDE!

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

    I mean the Russian invasion and occupation involves crimes against humanity of their own. Granted I don't recall the crime of Genocide alleged but given the civilian deaths and the literal kidnapping of children not a stretch.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago* (4 children)

    Israel killed more children in the first 3 months of their attack on Gaza than Russia killed civilians in their entire invasion of Ukraine even though Russia did things like the Bucha massacre and the Mariupol Theatre massacre.

    Russia is like Mussolini's Italy or Franco's Spain, whilst Israel is like NAZI Germany.

    If the reaction was in any way proprotionate, to match the deserved Sanctions on Russia, European nations would've already done to Israel what was done to Servia when they started attacking the other nations which formed after the break-up of Jugoslavia.

    This shit by European politicians is just more of the same delaying tactics they've been deploying for at least a year: loudly talking about the most innefective "actions" imaginable to avoid actually doing what the European Public Opinion demands which is punish Israel for what they're doing (i.e. Sanctions).

    I bet Israel and the US have lots of Kompromat on lots of top European politicians - after all, Epstein's operation had a far broader scope than just the US and Israel specializes on smartphone hacking.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago* (3 children)

    Given we are talking literal war crimes it doesn't matter who killed more.

    On the fourth paragraph that is what the article is saying the EU is putting together. Literal sanctions on the settlements of the west bank

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

    Sanctions on only the settlements are not sanctions on the country whose army is actually mass murdering children in Gaza and Lebanon.

    The CHOICE to limiting sanctions specifically to "settlements" only rather than punish the nation that's conducting a Genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, activelly helping the people in those settlements to displace and even murder Palestinians in the West Bank AND which can easilly help those settlements avoid said ultra-specific "sanctions", are literally the most innefective "looks-like-action" imaginable and clearly purposefully designed to minimize the impact on Israel.

    In the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such "sanctions" are equivalent in scope to "sanctioning" only Russian companies based on the Russia-occupied parts of the Ukranian Donetz region whilst not doing so for those in Luhansk and Crimea, much less sanctioning Russia the country.

    Those "sanctions" on Israeli West Bank settlements are theatrics, not genuine action.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Given that the country is going full mask off and not being quiet about punishing sanctions of any kind I don't think it is a stretch hearing Israel decide to just not do trade if a country sanctions the settlements only.

    In effect making the so called theatrical genuine. (I say so called because with the sanctions the settlements would only be able to involve in international trade via loopholing "not a settlement.")

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago*

    You're literally saying that these settlement "sanctions" leave it to Israel to decide how much they want to hurt and thus they'll only ever hurt seriously if they chose to.

    That's like a crooked Court Judge giving a strong finger wagging as "punishment" to a murder the jury just found guilty with the "rationale" that the now convicted murder might chose to put themselves in jail because their pride was hurt by the finger wagging.

    Do you understand that what you wrote just reinforces the case I'm making that these "sanctions" don't really punish and are meaningless bollocks mean only to deceive European Public Opinion?

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