“EU leaders complicit in Israel’s crimes” says former vice-president of European Commission

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1. >Those who do not act to stop this genocide and these violations of international law, even though they have the power to do so, are complicit in them. This is unfortunately the case with the leaders of the European Union and those of its member states, who refuse to sanction Israel even though the EU has a legal obligation to do so.

   A recurring rhetoric you see when it comes to the EU is that they don’t have any power to influence Israel in a meaningful way. That only the US can do anything. But

   >The EU has many levers it could pull to exert significant influence on the Israeli government. The EU is Israel’s biggest trading partner and its main partner in investment and people-to-people exchange. It is also one of its major arms suppliers. The association agreement between the EU and Israel, established in 2000 after the Oslo accords, is the most favourable of all those concluded by the bloc with third countries. In addition to zero customs duties on its exports of goods and services and visa-free travel for its citizens, the agreement gives Israel access to several major European funding and exchange programmes such as Horizon and Erasmus.

   >However, article 2 of this agreement makes it conditional on Israel’s respect for international law and fundamental human rights. Whether or not to suspend it is therefore not a choice that the EU can make at will. Since the EU foreign affairs ministers found that Israel was not respecting these rights, EU leaders now have a legal obligation to suspend the agreement. Failure to do so would also be a serious violation of the association agreement with Israel.

   It’s not a matter of if the EU should act. They are bound by their own agreement with Israel to act, since Israel is blatantly violating the terms. The EU is in effect saying that their own rules don’t matter.

2. Yes gaza bad, we should sanction Israel and Hamas, they both can choke on a bag of dicks for all I care.
   They both use the people of Gaza as pawns.
   And hear me out, the US stops subsidising Israel and providing it with everything they use to go full nazi genocide on their terrorist neighbours.

3. It’s maddening that we are debating whether the EU should stop enabling a genocide that’s been going on for years instead of discussing *how* (not if) the world should stop them by force.

   >EU and its member states are discrediting themselves in the eyes of the world and undermining the international law and multilateral order they are supposed to defend.

   %100.

4. >>EU and its member states are discrediting themselves in the eyes of the world and undermining the international law and multilateral order they are supposed to defend.

   Europe and America has lost all the credibility and we know there is no such thing as international law. It is might is right with manipulative language.

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