EU verhängt endlich Sanktionen gegen Siedler im Westjordanland – und Israel ist wütend | DW-Nachrichten

Better late than never!
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.

Perhaps we could also stop referring to these invaders as settlers

Good, but not enough. Sanctions on Israel should follow

Economically speaking, what do the settlers export from the West Bank? 

The whole country should be sanctioned.

Some settlers are boneheads. It’s often some young American criminal who moves there illegally and then takes a farm area for himself.

These hills are often empty yet IDF will come by and burn down everything they set up. They’ll return and set it up again. And some do end up making good money and buy the land legally later. But it’s a military zone. There is no police. So you’ll have young Palestinians come by and burn all your olive trees and crops. It needs replanting, you need a big fence and security cams. Then they’ll come by and throw stones/molotovs. The settlers will typically become quite violent in response to protect their investment. Meanwhile those Palestinians want all Jews out and make life hard and violent for the ones risking it.

In the Oslo Accords deal Israel got part of the West Bank under their control. And this is the zone with a majority Jews now. But there are hundreds of thousands Palestinians left there too and many live illegally. Just like settlers they set up illegalt housing and also become violent and fight against IDF. Many are left alone. But if things get violent those illegal houses are torn down too.

Most settlers are peaceful and hard-working. But the ones you always see in documentaries are the jerks. It’s like 10 Jewish leaders doing a ton of harm and showing violence. And on the Palestinian side it’s mainly young boys and men. EU should sanction both groups maybe. I’m not sure it’ll change much though. Those poor settlers taking land don’t have money enough to travel to EU. EU also needs to be careful. 99% of business there would be Palestinian or Jewish unrelated to those violent settlers. Just regular people with regular work.

Genuine question. Logistically speaking, how can the EU sanction one demographic within a country with any real efficacy? It would be very easy for EU goods to be ordered by other Israeli entities and then redirected to the West Bank settlers from there. Measures can fairly easily be taken to mask the goods intended final destination etc.

Dont see how sanctions on a demographic this narrowly defined could be enforced in a practical sense. They’d have to sanction the entire country of Israel to make it workable.

A state-level sanctions are expected. No administration should be given carte blanche to do whatever they want, no matter what the historical sensitivities for some countries might exist. If someone is breaking international law, that should be incentive enough. After so many casualties it is not an option any more, it’s a must. Especially because it is the softest of all political actions in this situation.

Paramilitary thugs supported by the Israeli Government. Finally.

I feel like we need to make a distinction between Israelis and the Israeli government. The government are the ones upset at this action. Most Israelis don’t agree with Netanyahus actions.

A podcast here in Germany mentioned recently that sanctions against specific settlers are toothless. Fine, they can no longer fly to Europe, so what.

Not settlers, but Home and land robbers.

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