The hypothesis of sanctions against Israel continues not to find unanimous support within the EU. The discussion on how to react to the “catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza” which according to the landlord, Lars Lokke, requires “passing from words to deeds”, continued to the Informal Foreign Council in Copenhagen. But the differences remain.
“I don’t want to give the pill, we didn’t make a decision,” said the high representative for EU foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, at the end of the meeting. “Member States disagree on how to change the Israeli government change, not everyone is from the match.” «Gaza needs less war, no more war. In addition, the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank is illegal and Mina the solution of the two states “, added the head of community diplomacy, which has complained of the lack of the EU of” a unitary item on the global scene “.
And while Lokke has confirmed that he is working to convince the skeptical countries to support the suspension of the association agreement between the EU and Israel, aware that “the ban on importing goods from the territories occupied illegally does not seem feasible”, Italy has been said to be available towards penalties against the most violent colonists in the West Bank.
On this, as on Ukraine, there is “identity of views” between Rome and Berlin, underlined the owner of the Farnesina, who on the sidelines of the meeting had a meeting with the German counterpart Johann Wadephul.
The head of Berlin diplomacy, while defining the humanitarian situation in Gaza “catastrophic”, reiterated the no to restrictive measures against the Jewish state. The suspension of the Horizon funds in Tel Aviv “will hardly have an influence on the political decision -making process of Israel and the military actions in the strip”, he noticed. “Very important and necessary” instead, the limitation to weapons supplies, adopted by Germany.
«Let’s start by sanctioning the settlers, more colonists and in a harder way, then we see. This is the first stage. If you don’t need much, others can study, “said Tajani, responding to journalists on possible measures against the far -right Israeli ministers who support the most violent residents of illegal settlements and outposts.
Hit the settlers is “already a strong message in the direction of the defense of the foundations of a Palestinian state because if the West Bank is attached, it means that the hypothesis of a Palestinian state in which we believe ends. This is not there today, but we must work to build it, “explained the head of diplomacy, remembering the meeting last Thursday at Farnesina with the Saudi Foreign Minister and what he will have next Monday with the counterpart of the Palestinian National Authority, Varsen AGHABEKIAN.
“Israel has exceeded the limit of the legitimate reaction after the attack of 7 October and now we must build, do not continue to destroy”, continued the head of diplomacy, underlining at the same time that “Hamas must free all the hostages without putting further conditions”.
As for Ramallah, it is “our only possible interlocutor”, reiterated Tajani, confirming that “support for the ANP” and “the commitment to relaunch the dialogue between the parties”. The message arrived on the other side of the Atlantic is very different: the US administration of Donald Trump denied the visa to the Palestinian president Abu Mazen to participate in the UN General Assembly in New York next month. A decision that triggered the EU reaction with Kallas and France who from Copenhagen urged Washington to reconsider it.