Belgian here. Their wording is confusing and I’ve been trying to figure out how much of it is meaningful.

They tacked on a precondition to them recognizing Palestine: Hamas must give up power. I don’t see that condition being met faster than Israel can flatten what remains of Gaza and force its population out – which in turn only creates more suffering and anger for the militant recruit pipeline.

The sanctions mostly concern boycotts on products produced in occupied regions. Fuck that – boycott all trade with Israel.

Our rightwing prime minister is on record saying that the whole debate was annoyingly motivated by ‘morality’ and that he’s glad the government (an uneasy coalition) can move on to more important matters. Downright shameful.

Come protest this Sunday in Brussels. Last one was attended by 100k demonstrators. Was a fun afternoon. More info at 11.be

This is a step in the right direction, but these sanctions are really weak. You can do better.

Now just the rest of us in Europe has to follow suit.

It's a start.

Belgium: "Best I can do is continue both-sidesing a genocide"

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