Israel Readies Retaliatory Sanctions Against Europe
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US President Donald Trump showed a cold attitude when he learned that Britain had imposed sanctions on illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
On Tuesday, the British government announced economic sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israel is responding with a package of measures.
Britain's decision to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank has sparked a bitter diplomatic row, with London's historic involvement in the founding of Israel lending enormous political weight to the move. British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has spoken of "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, while Israel has responded by closing the British diplomatic mission to the Palestinians and accusing it of anti-Semitism.
London has carefully distinguished between settlements and Israel. The Netanyahu government's response has erased this distinction. By Elijah J. Magnier – Britain has adopted measures aimed at illegal Israeli settlements, while insisting that it did not sanction Israel. The Netanyahu government has reacted as if the whole [...]
"We know that we have many friends in Britain. Unfortunately, we have a hostile Labor government that constantly acts against the state of Israel and has left us no choice but to respond to its hostile actions," Saar said, assessing that the British Labor government is "hostile" towards Israel, reports Sky News. According to him, the "boycott of products" produced in the occupied West Bank "harms legal and productive
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