{"id":45963,"date":"2026-04-27T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/45963\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:06:10","slug":"french-lawmaker-calls-for-sanctions-on-netanyahu-citing-double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/45963\/","title":{"rendered":"French lawmaker calls for sanctions on Netanyahu, citing double standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Mathilde Panot, a lawmaker from the France Unbowed party in the National Assembly, called for sanctions against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, criticizing the international community\u2019s inconsistent response to the Middle East conflict. \u201cSanction against Netanyahu, as it is absurd to see that there have been 19 rounds of sanctions against Putin,\u201d Panot said, referring to measures imposed over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal war and double standards<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">\u201cYou have a world and an international community that are allowing Trump and Netanyahu to drag the entire world into a war which, I recall, is an illegal war,\u201d Panot told Franceinfo. She urged France to take a stronger diplomatic role through international institutions, proposing that negotiations take place within the UN rather than outside international law. She also called for coordinated action with countries like Spain that are rejecting the war.<\/p>\n<p>Genocide in Gaza, war on Lebanon<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Panot condemned how Israel\u2019s military operations are framed: \u201cIt is not a war against Hamas, it is a genocide against the Palestinian people.\u201d She added that \u201cthe war against Hezbollah is a pretext\u201d for war against the Lebanese people. She criticized France\u2019s \u201cvassalization\u201d to the United States and renewed her party\u2019s demand to leave NATO\u2019s integrated command so France can have a \u201cnon-aligned voice in the service of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mathilde Panot, a lawmaker from the France Unbowed party in the National Assembly, called for sanctions against Israeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16469],"tags":[244,245,28970,6259,28971,13531,28972,1434,330,328],"class_list":["post-45963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-france","tag-france-unbowed","tag-gaza","tag-mathilde-panot","tag-netanyahu","tag-panot","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116476351921509990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}