EU Hardens Tone on Israel, but Will It Make a Difference?

Europe’s leaders are scolding Israel over Gaza, but will they go further?

Some E.U. states are calling for a full suspension of trade relations. Others are trying to distance themselves from the grisly images emerging from the enclave.

Europe’s feeble shift on Gaza

For the last 20 months, the European Union has had no policy or even a joint position on Israel’s destruction of Gaza and the extermination of its population. Some member states like Germany have doubled down on their support for Israel and increased weapons supplies and even backed Israel in the genocide case brought against it by South Africa in the International Court of Justice. Others like Ireland and Spain have been more critical of Israel…

If with 54,000 Palestinians killed, 17,000 of them children and the famine suffered by two million people, the EU leaders are not able to go further is that they do not deserve to occupy the positions they hold. History will also judge them and let us hope that with the severity they deserve Israel continues the delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza despite the chaos in the implementation of its controversial Netanyahu plan is a war criminal. A d…

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EU hardens tone on Israel, but will it make a difference?

With reports of acute suffering in Gaza flooding the airwaves, EU leaders have toughened their tone on Israel -- but the bloc will need to bridge deep divisions to move from rhetoric to a real-world impact on the conflict.