EU „bereit“, Sanktionen gegen Israel wegen russischem Schiff mit gestohlenem ukrainischem Getreide zu verhängen

They won’t do shit

We should also sanction them for the war they started in Iran, which is creating an oil crisis. Its time Germany accepts that Europe interest are diametrically opposed to israel ones.

Would the EU then also sanction all other countries buying this grain? For example, Egypt? And if you really want to be systematic about targeting a far more important part of fundraising of the Russian war effort, sanction Spain for buying tons of Russian gas. That is much, much more meaningful than a ship of grain.

Anyway, Israel obviously should not allow this. However, Ukraine has never been an ally of Israel and shows very limited willingness to be one (for example, it never supports Israel in the UN and almost always votes against Israel) and is limitedly relevant in the Middle East, so it shouldn’t expect anything more than the bare mimimum from ties between these countries. It surely has to be aware that the war in Ukrainian is primarily an issue for Europe with much of the rest of the world not being particularly interested

inb4 german veto

Perhaps Europe could sanction them for illegally invading other people’s land and committing war crimes. The call in Europe is getting stronger but even now there isn’t the political will.

Europe’s credibility here is down the drain after all these years.

We have an Israël EU trade agreement that has clear provisions to suspend for such conduct. I’m very much aware of the real life differences for Europe between Russia and Israel. Historically and in current global power dynamics. I’m very much for Israel as a safe country in the region. But the country has developed from an illegal occupier into a very active illegal war monger in these last few years. It’s a destabilizing factor in our close neighboring region and it is a threat to the safety of it’s own citizens in the long term.

There is also a clear difference between very hard sanctions limiting all trade and maintaining a trade agreement facilitating all trade. Even the US has little influence on Netanyahu’s government. The trade agreement is really the only leverage Europe has.

Why not use it? It would gain us more support from other players in that region and as such it is also real politik during this energy crisis. Fear of Trump? I think he’s fed up with the Israeli reaction to the ceasefire too. Perhaps we can make a deal with the US.

it is great news, but many of our countries have also imported record numbers of Gas from Russia…so it does sound a bit hypocritical

We could also sanction them for the war crimes, genocide and illegal land grab…but i guess we should start somewhere.

So that’s where the line is? That’s what they’re being sanctioned for?

Parece que eso es más grave que un genocidio.

Whatever Russia has done in Ukraine, Israel has done 100x worse in all their neighbouring countries. And not a whisper of them being sanctioned.

This is the REASON for sanctions against Israel? not the Palestinian genocide? not the occupation of Southern Lebanon? Not the apartheid laws and segregation? Not the illegal war in iran?

Sanctions on Israel for buying grains during a war occupied Ukraine, while some EU countries buy russian gas and oil.

I don’t understand what the fuck is going on.

Oh suddenly Europeans have grown a conscience? How timely.

Weird how we can barely be bothered enough to write a sternly worded letter when Israel commits a genocide and drives millions out of their homes, but when they buy some stolen grain suddenly we’re „ready to sanction Israel“. How come we have more respect for property than human life? Why is *this* bad enough to warrant the possibility of a real response but the intentional murder of tens of thousands of children isn’t?

The EU values Ukrainian grain more than Arabic lives and yet „we“ claim to be the beacon of lifberty and human rights. Importing goods from occupied Palestine is totally fine but importing goods from occupied Ukraine is where we draw the line.

A lot of people in the comments just finding out now that most countries/organizations/institutions only act when it directly affects them or when they stand to gain. I can’t help to find it a bit naive.

Edit: The Israel-Palestine conflict doesn’t really involve the EU, so it is not surprising they haven’t done much. Most of the countries that did were trying to send a message or to appease certain voter bases. You can’t really be surprised that the EU only starts acting when a conflict actually involves them. It is the same as every other political entity.

In the same vein, countries give foreign aid, not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because it benefits the country giving aid.

That’s where we draw the line?

Is this gonna be like when they got Al Capone for tax fraud

They will never do such a thing, we all know that.

But the ongoing genocide is OK.

Well i hope we are ready for Isreals dog to start barking at us again

Do it