are stalled<\/a> over the difficult issue of disarming Hamas militants in Gaza.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are investing not only in the Palestinian future but also in the regional stability, shared security and just and lasting peace for everyone together,\u201d Mustafa said, calling for \u201ca resilient, sovereign, contiguous and viable Palestinian state\u201d \u2014 something Israel\u2019s current government has opposed.<\/p>\n
The Palestinian Authority seeks a role in Gaza\u2019s reconstruction, but the U.S. 20-point plan only makes a reference to the possibility of a future Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, EU ministers discuss the West Bank<\/p>\n
Separately, top diplomats from the 27-nation EU debated how to respond to increased Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
The bloc\u2019s executive, the European Commission, has tabled options including cutting off trade with Israeli settlements in the territory.<\/p>\n
Nations like Ireland and Spain are calling for forceful action. The Czech Republic, Germany and others alongside the commission are more cautious, seeking to apply incremental pressure. Some nations have signaled they would veto sanctions.<\/p>\n
Do sanctions \u201chave a meaningful impact or not? What role could they play as a political message, and would this be escalatory in a wrong direction?\u201d said Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova-Chamova.<\/p>\n
The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said the European Council\u2019s legal service had found that severing trade ties with Israeli settlements in the West Bank \u2014 not technically sanctions \u2014 would require a majority vote and not total unanimity from bloc members.<\/p>\n
Luxembourg\u2019s Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel said a clear majority in the EU agrees on severing commercial ties with the settlements. He dismissed arguments that tough action would boost Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s chances in an election in October: \u201cI hope that now it\u2019s time for decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By SAM McNEIL BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 The European Union has coordinated efforts to raise 900 million euros ($1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[62564,211,210,73,2246,3126,17962,12079,11039,12080],"class_list":["post-128760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-aid-pledges","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-european-union","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-reconstruction","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116914437906575237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}