Hamas attack Israel & subsequent genocide

[seafoid]

   https://www.ft.com/content/8a82a52f-c02b-452b-b7df-ba3bcf94c1e0

   It is possible — indeed sensible — to think Israel is entitled to wage war against Hamas in Gaza, while insisting that it may only do so in lawful ways and concluding that these lawful limits have long since been transgressed.

Indeed, the UN has found overwhelming evidence of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza and in connection with the increasingly brutal occupation of the West Bank.

There is no need, in other words, to deem the two wars in Ukraine and in Gaza in any way equivalent to judge that sanctions may be justified in both. And that is why it is time for Europe to clarify specifically how it might place sanctions on Israel, and to develop its ad hoc sanctions decisions into a systematic policy framework for how to use this geoeconomic tool generally.

On the specifics, it is obvious that if European countries opt for sanctions, they will have to do so without the US. So the time is right to map out the areas where sanctions on Israel by Europe alone (or with any other willing allies) would have the most impact.

Banking and financial sanctions are mostly likely to be ineffective, as the US can easily duplicate any payment and funding channels. There is one exception: immobilising foreign exchange reserves, as the west has done with Russia, would impose an economic cost.

The Bank of Israel invests about a quarter of its relatively large stock of reserves in Europe, which a freeze would make unavailable for their financial stabilisation function and could in time be put towards any compensation due to Palestinians.


The hardest-hitting sanctions would probably be on trade and travel. Israel sources nearly half of its goods imports from Europe and sends more than a third of its exports to the continent, according to its statistics bureau. A significant share of the imports consists of fuels, a trade Europe has outsize influence over due to its dominance of shipping-related services. At least a quarter of Israel's large services trade is also with European markets. Restrictions on business services and tourism would be highly disruptive.

Preparing for sanctions is important beyond the immediate moral and political imperative of reacting to violations of international law. The EU, in particular, needs to upgrade sanctions decision-making. Its strong measures against Russia have happened despite political squabbles and claims of legal uncertainty.

These shortcomings, even though they have been repeatedly overcome against Moscow, will continue to hamper the union's ability to project diplomatic power. The EU needs to clarify and systematise which behaviours will trigger which reactions, and ideally remove decisions regarding sanctions from the current unanimity requirement, which undermines its foreign policy leverage.

Preparations are also needed to counter any US sabotage, which is already under way with Washington's debilitating moves against the International Criminal Court.

By showing it is ready to act against Israel if it so chooses, the EU would show it is ready to act against grave breaches of international law by anyone. Legal consistency would make threats of sanctions more credible; incentives to respect European red lines would strengthen them and signal consequences for crossing them.

It was a US president who advised speaking softly and carrying a big stick. Today, it is the EU that can make most of his advice.

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/ba6e18db-716f-4bb8-8480-e0b7bb584b75

Unlike in other heavily populated urban settings, such as the slums of south Asia, there is no sanitation and no running water. By even the most generous calculations, each of Gaza's war-weary civilians will have less physical space than a small room to survive. When subtracting unusable land — taken up by rubble, marshes or roads and garbage dumps — the space left for each Palestinian could be even less. In the most dire calculations, it could be as little as a living room sofa. This miserable, unsanitary and dangerous overcrowding is the publicly stated goal of finance minister Smotrich, who suggests it is a necessary step to achieve a long-cherished aim of Israel's far right: forcing Palestinians out of Gaza for good. "Understanding that there is no hope, and nothing to look for in Gaza," he said, they would opt to leave and abandon their land to Israel.

[Rossfan]

Shooting people waiting for meagre aid now because they didn't stay in a designated line.

[gallsman]

Krishnan tearing this absolute sap David Mencer a new asshole live on Ch. 4 News.

[Wildweasel74]

Don't be suprised if there's a accidental sinking of that ship. 1 thing we learned from this, the USA and the UK govts. Are sorta scum of the earth level when it comes to bcking Israel. Look at was taken for War crimes in WW2 and there def alot of comparison to now.

[LC]

Krishnan tearing this absolute sap David Mencer a new asshole live on Ch. 4 News.

As professional as journalists are meant to be it must be very difficult to retain this when interviewing fu#kers like your man Mancer without wanting to call them out for what they are actually are.  Can't remember the channel but saw a journalist interviewing that other tr**p who is their UN Ambassador last week, she was on the verge of tears.

[JoG2]

Krishnan tearing this absolute sap David Mencer a new asshole live on Ch. 4 News.

As professional as journalists are meant to be it must be very difficult to retain this when interviewing fu#kers like your man Mancer without wanting to call them out for what they are actually are.  Can't remember the channel but saw a journalist interviewing that other tr**p who is their UN Ambassador last week, she was on the verge of tears.

Posh, fat, red faced, gout ridden, zero compassion, white supremisist, utterly shameless,evil, a poster boy for colonisers

[downtothecore]

Krishnan tearing this absolute sap David Mencer a new asshole live on Ch. 4 News.

As professional as journalists are meant to be it must be very difficult to retain this when interviewing fu#kers like your man Mancer without wanting to call them out for what they are actually are.  Can't remember the channel but saw a journalist interviewing that other tr**p who is their UN Ambassador last week, she was on the verge of tears.

Posh, fat, red faced, gout ridden, zero compassion, white supremisist, utterly shameless,evil, a poster boy for colonisers


This is Shocking and Shameful what is happening to many innocent children and people as we speak....

[johnnycool]

Krishnan tearing this absolute sap David Mencer a new asshole live on Ch. 4 News.

As professional as journalists are meant to be it must be very difficult to retain this when interviewing fu#kers like your man Mancer without wanting to call them out for what they are actually are.  Can't remember the channel but saw a journalist interviewing that other tr**p who is their UN Ambassador last week, she was on the verge of tears.

Posh, fat, red faced, gout ridden, zero compassion, white supremisist, utterly shameless,evil, a poster boy for colonisers

And he's a big supporter of the Labour friends of Isreal and help Lammy with his London mayor bid which was unsuccessful.


What a web they weave!

[seafoid]

Krishnan tearing this absolute sap David Mencer a new asshole live on Ch. 4 News.

As professional as journalists are meant to be it must be very difficult to retain this when interviewing fu#kers like your man Mancer without wanting to call them out for what they are actually are.  Can't remember the channel but saw a journalist interviewing that other tr**p who is their UN Ambassador last week, she was on the verge of tears.

Posh, fat, red faced, gout ridden, zero compassion, white supremisist, utterly shameless,evil, a poster boy for colonisers

They lie professionally.  Their lies long ago failed to make contact with reality. Khamas khamas. Israel deserves sanctions.

[Wildweasel74]

Americans a bunch of c***ts!

[Truthsayer]

Jewish lobby runs America. . That's nothing new (tho not all Jews support this genocide.. important to say that)

[SouthOfThe Bann]

https://vimeo.com/1082355868

Has anyone seen the Settlers documentary by Louis Theroux.

Very unsettling stuff.

That Daniella Weiss seems like an evil woman.

[LC]

Americans a bunch of c***ts!

Penny beginning to drop with a few of them, Dave Smith (Jewish American) seems to be popping up everywhere now since he wiped the floor with your man Douglas Murray on the Joe Rogan podcast.

[JoG2]

https://vimeo.com/1082355868

Has anyone seen the Settlers documentary by Louis Theroux.

Very unsettling stuff.

That Daniella Weiss seems like an evil woman.

Kill Zone: Inside Gaza. The documentary BBC made, had up for less than 2 days before pulling. It's absolutely horrific

https://x.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1927684603428454889

Scary to think what the actual number of dead children is at this stage. Was told yesterday they are using drones that have speakers with the sound of screaming kids blaring out to attract people out of buildings to then take them out... Barbaric nation