How significant are new European sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements?
Israel is accused of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
How significant are new European sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements?
Israel is accused of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Grouped from 4 articles across 2 sources.
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Jerusalem Daily: Israel retaliates over sanctions on illegal settlements
A diplomatic rift grows between the UK and Israel after Britain led a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements
As the UK sanctions Israeli settlements, is the two-state solution dead?
Analysts say UK move far from enough to drive momentum for Palestinian statehood.
Ed Miliband has overturned decades of Foreign Office inertia on illegal Israeli settlements
Foreign secretary ends UK’s feigned helplessness with sanctions and condemnation of ‘ethnic cleansing’ Will UK sanctions have any impact on ‘settler terrorists’? The indefatigable ability of UK Foreign Office ministers over decades to issue boilerplate statements of concern about the extension of illegal settlements in Israel has long been a matter of ridicule. Even some of the Conservative ministers who issued them, notably Alan Duncan and Alistair Burt, have agreed. Duncan described the UK stance towards settlements as weak and naive, while Burt wondered at the ability of the Foreign Office to find new forms of diplomatic condemnation that never amounted to any specific action. Margaret Thatcher, often torn as prime minister between her natural sympathy for Israel and her fear of the Gulf states falling under the sway of the Soviet Union, similarly expressed her anger at the settlements. Continue reading...
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