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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[–] 1 point 1 hour ago* (2 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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  • [–] 1 point 43 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago) (1 child)

    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 22 minutes ago

    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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