1w ago

Britain, Canada, France threaten sanctions against Israel over Gaza

www.rfi.fr

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64477374

"The Israeli Government's denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law," a joint statement said.
"We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank ... We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions."

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1w ago

Britain, Canada, France threaten sanctions against Israel over Gaza

www.rfi.fr /en/international/20250520-britain-canada-france-threaten-sanctions-against-israel-over-gaza

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Quite late, but hopefully more countries will follow suit.
- Threats are meaningless. At this point Israel should be sanctioned like Iran and Russia. They shouldn't be allowed to do business with the west until they withdraw from all occupied land and commit to reparations to rebuild the hundreds of billions in damage they've done to civilian infrastructure. They must pay for the damage they've done.
  
  Ideally yes, but that will never happen as quickly (if at all) when it's a country that has been considered an ally for decades. Similar to how many European politicians are still going on about the US being an "important ally", even when it's Trump's USA being openly hostile to our way of life and democracy.

Hamas welcomed the joint statement describing the stance as "an important step" in the right direction toward restoring the principles of international law.
Not to detract from the seriousness of the situation, but this is hilarious.

That's a word I would like to mute in all my feeds "threaten".
Do, or not do, there is no threaten.

What more proof do they need?
How many more dead people do they need to hear about? 100? 200? 1,000? 10,000?

Just do it!

Lol soft power

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