Hamas attack Israel & subsequent genocide

[seafoid]

Hit them where it hurts

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/09/17/european-commission-proposes-ending-preferential-treatment-for-israeli-trade/

Trade coming from Israel would no longer be given preferential treatment coming into the European Union, under a proposal tabled by Ursula von der Leyen's European Commission.

The move would represent a major economic and diplomatic blow for Israel, hitting billions of euros worth of trade, in response to its ongoing military campaign in Gaza.

Why was Israel given   preferential treatment in the  first place?

Probably because of lobbying.

[DaleCooper]

Theyre absolute experts at creating special carve outs.

For example they have an arrangement with American foreign aid money paid out up front. They then bank it and earn 3% extra on the $4 billion.

Theyre parasites ultimately. Of course no one else has this arrangement because budgets etc and liquidity prevent it.

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/9b90ee6f-9a94-4480-bd78-34df78a8b6e5

Asked two weeks ago what his goals are for the West Bank, Israeli minister Smotrich replied: "Maximum land with minimum Arabs." In the village of Sinjil, a short drive from Ramallah, Palestinian residents say that policy is on display. During the roughly 30 years since Oslo, the village lost hundreds of acres of its land to four nearby settlements, according to mayor Mo'ataz Tavavsha.



But it took only a few months after October 7 to lose nearly all the rest. First, he says, the Israeli military installed a gate to the land surrounding the settlements. Then came clashes with extremist settlers, who had set up a small outpost on a hill beside the village. The Israeli military responded to the clashes — which involved stones being thrown — by warning the villagers to stay far from the outpost. In June the Israeli military started building a barbed wire fence around Sinjil, claiming in a letter to Tavavsha that it was to prevent stone throwing on to a highway nearby. By early August, the entire village was in effect sealed in, its only exit guarded by Israeli soldiers. "They've made Sinjil a jail," Tavavsha says. Students cannot reach their universities, the ill cannot make it to hospital and dozens of houses have been abandoned by their owners, especially after a 14-year-old was shot and killed standing near the fence. "People have started to leave — at least 100 people have emigrated," he adds.


https://www.ft.com/content/9b90ee6f-9a94-4480-bd78-34df78a8b6e5

Soon after October 7, the Israeli army kicked his family out of their family home, a palatial mansion on top of a hill with a view over all of Jenin. For a month, they used it as a military court. When they left, the video shows, Stars of David were scratched into the family's luxury cars. "f**k Palestine," reads one scratching. From "The Nation of Israel Lives" reads the next. "They just wanted to show everyone that they can reach anywhere, anytime," he says.

[Rossfan]

That's what the US, Brits, many EU Governments support.
Sickening!

[seafoid]

They deserve sanctions. Hit them hard where it hurts. Damage their precious economy. Only that can stop the fascism.

https://www.ft.com/content/7e389a94-707f-4bce-b091-251503d40b8e

The concern among both current and former Israeli officials is that further sanctions could be looming, forcing them to contemplate a future in which Israel is barred from international events, subject to a wider arms embargo and visa-free travel is revoked.

[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 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://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/us-urges-uk-and-allies-to-reverse-course-on-plans-to-recognise-palestinian-state/a1088764487.html
US politicians have urged the UK and other allies to reverse their stance on Palestinian statehood, warning such a move would empower Hamas and threaten Israel's security.
Congressional Republican leaders, including chairwoman Elise Stefanik and Senator Rick Scott, have sent a letter to the UK, France, Canada, Australia and other key allies, calling on them to oppose efforts at the UN General Assembly to legitimise a Palestinian state.

We are writing with respect to your efforts to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state at the upcoming 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. This is a reckless policy that undermines prospects for peace," wrote Ms Stefanik and Mr Scott.
"It sets the dangerous precedent that violence, not diplomacy, is the most expedient means for terrorist groups like Hamas to achieve their political aims."
The letter was backed by US House of Representatives speaker Mike Johnson, who called the move "baffling" and "deeply troubling".
"International leaders will convene at the UN General Assembly in New York, and we will be watching if close allies like France and Canada and the UK move ahead with plans to recognise a Palestinian state," he said.
"It is baffling and deeply troubling to reward Hamas with statehood before they have returned every hostage

[Rossfan]

Zionist bought and paid for gobsh1tes.

[Dire Ear]

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/us-urges-uk-and-allies-to-reverse-course-on-plans-to-recognise-palestinian-state/a1088764487.html
US politicians     have urged the UK and other allies to reverse their stance on Palestinian statehood, warning such a move would empower Hamas and threaten Israel's security.
Congressional Republican leaders, including chairwoman Elise Stefanik and Senator Rick Scott, have sent a letter to the UK, France, Canada, Australia and other key allies, calling on them to oppose efforts at the UN General Assembly to legitimise a Palestinian state.

We are writing with respect to your efforts to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state at the upcoming 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. This is a reckless policy that undermines prospects for peace," wrote Ms Stefanik and Mr Scott.
"It sets the dangerous precedent that violence, not diplomacy, is the most expedient means for terrorist groups like Hamas to achieve their political aims."
The letter was backed by US House of Representatives speaker Mike Johnson, who called the move "baffling" and "deeply troubling".
"International leaders will convene at the UN General Assembly in New York, and we will be watching if close allies like France and Canada and the UK move ahead with plans to recognise a Palestinian state," he said.
"It is baffling and deeply troubling to reward Hamas with statehood before they have returned every hostage