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Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)

submitted 1 year ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] erranto@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

So was the blockade. and they did nothing about it . bunch of spineless hypocrites

[-] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

What is the EU going to do without the US’s approval? UN is out due to permanent security member’s veto power. Going against the USA means loss of a lot of things. Some of them crucial. They literally cannot do a single thing without losing a major thing that directly impacts their citizens.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Not everything is about the US, you know, EU-internal politics regarding Israel are quite complicated.

I don't think we managed to officially ban products out of settlements yet but I don't see them anywhere for the simple reason that they have to be labelled as settlement products, not "Made in Israel". Israel threw a pretty fit over that, usually EU action (besides stern letters) takes the form of annoying the Israeli right by helping Palestinians.