The European Union should suspend its trade and institutional ties with Israel to deter war crimes that amount to genocide in the Gaza Strip, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine has said.
“Europe is the main trading partner - which accounts I think for 30% of Israel’s trade - so it has a huge power and it should use that power. In the end, this is not an option, it’s an obligation because Article 2 of that association agreement foresees the suspension in case of violations of human rights,” she added.
Albanese said the EU’s reluctance to use the measures in its power to hold Israel to account perpetuates Israel’s impunity and reveals a “disconnect” between Europe’s political class and the large portion of European society that has persistently called for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip.
She also said EU leaders need to take more concrete counter-measures against Israel, including revoking diplomatic recognition and targeted sanctions on government officials.
Not to rain on this parade, but the EU took forever to sanction even fucking russia, and even that never became a complete cut in trade.
True but it did take a lot less civilian casualties. Israel has killed more than three times the amount of civilians as Russia so far, percentually far more children.
Unfortunately, there’s a decent chance that Germany will prevent that.
Germany will prevent that
Depends on what specifically that is.
Not every EU decisions needs to be unanimous anymore.Foreign policy decision need to though and sanctions are such decisions. However sanctions against the settlers on the West Bank are already in place and Germany voted for them.
I suppose, I should have worded that differently.
Yes, suspending the trade agreement mentioned in the article seems to require unanimity and would likely be blocked by Germany.
There might be other measures that the EU could implement where that is not the case.
Though I admit that I have no specific idea what that could be.
Good to know.
The EU along with the USA has always been complicit in the suffering of Palestinians, they’re not going to stop now. That’s why it just rings hollow every time they condemn Russian brutality in Ukraine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The European Union should suspend its trade and institutional ties with Israel to deter war crimes that amount to genocide in the Gaza Strip, the UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine has said.
In the end, this is not an option, it’s an obligation because Article 2 of that association agreement foresees the suspension in case of violations of human rights," she added.
A recent initiative by the leaders of Ireland and Spain calling on the European Commission to suspend the EU-Israel agreement has been met with resistance by other member states eager to uphold the bloc’s stance of solidarity with Israel.
She also said EU leaders need to take more concrete counter-measures against Israel, including revoking diplomatic recognition and targeted sanctions on government officials.
He said that drone manufacturers providing their technology to Israel’s Armed Forces have received funds from the EU’s Horizon Europe project, a claim recently corroborated in an analysis by two independent monitors, Statewatch and Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI).
“It’s shameful that the European Union is still buying and selling arms to Israel that are being used in combat, that are falling on the heads of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip,” MEP Pineda said.
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30k civilians is more than 1% of the population in Gaza. The real number is likely higher. There’s no way this can be turned into a good thing.
You mean israel waits until suspects are home with their family to kill them instead of bombing them on the battlefield. Trying to maximize civilian casualties.
And systematically starves all Palestinians using hunger as a weapon or war.
Genocide denial is already over. Currently the Hasbara narrative is that Israels very high civilians casualties are necessary.
The linked article is unverifiable: the original “source” has provided no corroborating evidence to support their story (and they are quite clearly biased in all their reporting…), and a google search only returned results which eventually led back to the original “news” organization. Not going to put much stock in that story.
Israel is facilitating the entrance of approximately 1.2 pounds of food per person in Gaza at the moment, and has been since the early days of the war. If civilians in Gaza are starving, which I believe they are based on all available information, then the fault lies squarely with Hamas, who continues to steal virtually all aid that enters the Gaza Strip and use it to further their violent and genocidal agenda.
TL;DR: Link to unverifiable story with no sources, and a blood libel. Great stuff /s
And what’s about Israel destroying humanitarian aid with precision strikes? they even admitted it.
Or what about Israelian snipers targeting children?
Israel knows very well what they are doing and they don’t care.
Blood libel really is the new favorite Hasbara catchphrase of the day.
She wrote this report proving israel is committing Genocide. Maybe you missed it. Collective starvation of a population doesn’t leave room for interpretation.
Anatomy of a Genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese (A/HRC/55/73) (Advance unedited version)
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Hamas is still holding innocent Israelis hostage and sexually assaulting them.
If Morocco sent gangs over the Spanish border to rape and murder (even babies) and took hundreds of hostages, no-one would ask Spain to negotiate a ceasefire while the hostages are still suffering.
Hamas must be destroyed. It’s disgusting that the EU and UN have been funding them directly.
And kill mostly innocent civilians to do it? Hamas is bad, don’t get me wrong. But Israel’s reaction to the tragedy is abysmal.
That’s true, but you can’t destroy them with force. The only way to destroy Hamas is by destroying the reason they exist and by ending the suffering for the Palestinians. Violence produces more violence. Make Gaza a state, support it, so that the people living there can have a good live and Hams becomes less of a Problem.
the EU and UN have been funding them [Hamas] directly.
This is completely false and vile propaganda.
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Hamas is a terrorist organisation, that holds hundreds of hostages. That’s awful. Israel is a terrorist state that has killed tens of thousands, with a large portion being children. Objectively, israel is magnitudes worse, unless innocent Palestinian lives mean less?
Ah, the good old full-on-racist equating of Palestinian with Hamas.
It’s been at least 5 minutes since last I read somebody justifying the mass murder of Palestinians by talking about Hamas, as if being Palestinian is the same as being a member of Hamas.
Only extreme racists believe that aged and overworn by use foundation of Israeli propaganda.
Oh no more “beheaded raped babies in ovens from pregnant bellies”.
It’s a sad state of affairs that people are still repeating this complete propaganda.
