Israeli newspaper Haaretz has leaked an internal European Union document that details proposed sanctions against Israel, including against Israeli businessmen involved in settlement projects, and potentially Israeli politicians opposed to Palestinian statehood.
If enacted, this would likely include a number of members of the Israeli far-right coalition government, as many of them are openly opposed to Palestinian statehood, including certain high-ranking cabinet members, like Economy Minister Naftali Bennett.
The EU has been keen to emphasize its frustration at Israel’s settlement expansion, as well as the end of the peace talks with the Palestinians, and has already warned EU companies against doing business with settlement-based Israeli companies.
The EU clearly wasn’t ready for this to go public, however, with their incoming Foreign Minister, Federica Mohherini, denying that there were any plans to impose sanctions on Israel, regardless of anything it does.
No country, and it's supporters, deserve severe even crippling sanctions more than Israel and it's enablers. Further, no action would be more impactful for world peace and justice. Let us pray this is true.
That sounds like a start. So is the EU also filled with israeli-firsters, "dual"-citizens and the like who would leak this stuff?
Businessmen of Israel, businessmen of Naz! Germany, not much of a difference and the treatment shouldn't be any different either.
So tired of everyone trying to put a shiny coat of paint on the state that shat these people out.
Some of the most obnoxious people you will EVER meet, bar none.
Zionist Israel — A brain power dictatorship
For an intelligence dictatorship is what the Europeans have established over Palestine, a thing impossible to comprehend by the simple farming culture that prevails in Palestine, surely slavery and occupation forever unless all those European Zionist dictators are shipped back to Europe where they belong.
Those of Europian government that are flip flopping the idea boycotting Israel are hired by Israel for such moment in time, like that far right Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt when they governed Sweden. You want peace in Middle East you need to boycott Israel for good with the meaning of the word, you want peace in Middle East, you need to stop cooperating with Saudis and UAE in general, you want peace in Middle East you need to encourage Syrian and Iranian governments to defeate the creation of 2014, barbarians style for good and for ever. Don't wirry Iranians nor the Syrian government are not going to claim that they are the new empire of Middle East, unlike Turkish Erdogan regime or that Israeli apartheid regime or that Saudis and its CCG regimes of slaveries and barbarians.