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

submitted 11 months ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] erranto@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

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

[-] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 2 points 11 months 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 11 months 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.