Monday, July 6, 2020

EU hypocritically threatens to penalize Israel over sovereignty.


If Israel declares sovereignty over settlements, the EU has threatened to retaliate with boycotts of diplomatic visits and cancellation of billions in grants for research.

The European Union is planning to impose penalties if Israel puts into action plans to apply sovereignty to settlements in Judea and Samaria it was reported Sunday.

The EU and many of its members have voiced their objection to Israel making any ‘unilateral’ steps in regards to settlements, saying that doing so is a serious threat to the future of the two-state solution. The EU’s unilateral actions iof illegal construction in area C is disregarded.

Oded Eran, Israel’s former ambassador to the EU, and former Israeli ambassador to Germany Shimon Stein say that “declaring the application of sovereignty will bring condemnation and possibly even punishments.”

Stein and Eran noted that the EU doesn’t have the ability to cause significant economic damage to Israel that would discourage the Israeli government from deciding to extend sovereignty, but at the same time they pointed out if the Democrats win the November presidential elections, the European position must be taken into account.



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