The EU Grotesque Farce of Sanctioning Individual Israeli Settlers in the West Bank

The EU’s diplomacy has felt the weight of having basically the whole world against its double-standard application of international law and its own values and the accusations of being complicit in genocide and the brutal West Bank-Israel colonialism.

According to Haaretz, four Israeli settler entities (Amana, Nachala, Hashomer Yosh, and Regavim) and three related individuals (Daniella Weiss, Avichai Suissa, and Meir Deutsch) are to be placed under an EU visa ban and asset freeze.

The farce consists of making a look-alike of some action taken vis-à-vis such an enormous issue and saving face. The EU diplomats should be enlightened enough to know that what is going on in the West Bank is not an individual initiative in which individuals are punished; rather, it is a state policy.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and the Israeli army (IDF) actively participate in motivating such actions and in defending, as personal militia, the criminal colonialists while they are........

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