The British government says it is suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and leveling new sanctions targeting West Bank settlers as it criticizes Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/34958452

The U.K. suspended free trade talks with Israel on Tuesday and hit West Bank settlers with sanctions, less than a day after vowing “concrete actions” if Israel didn’t stop its new military offensive in Gaza.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    Apparently the Israeli Finance minister gave a big speech about how they’re letting just enough aid through to avoid war criminal status, and Netenyahu started a new military push.

    Seems to have caught the UK, France, amd Canada off guard, and ticked them off. Even saw an article from The American Conservative saying Trump should stop supporting Israel, and he’s currently pretty focused on winning Europe back over.

    • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Well, just last week, UK government lawyers were claiming “no evidence of genocide in Gaza” while defending the sale of military equipment that may flow to Israel, so the UK certainly seems to be talking out both sides of its ass. Or arse, as the case may be.

      18 months of Israel’s indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians - mainly in Gaza but also increasingly in the West Bank by military forces and paramilitary “settlers” - and this looks like a pretty damn tepid response.

      Better than nothing. But not much better.

    • arafatknee@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      Two of the five trucks the ZioNazis let in yesterday were filled with nothing but shrouds and body bags.

    • ahornsirup@feddit.orgEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      The settlers are enabled by the Israeli government’s use military force against whoever already lives on the land they want to “settle.” The money is the smallest of the issues at hand.