Most EU member countries have said they are in favor of banning trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The bloc had been under pressure to act as a whole, after several member state
This isn’t even the bare minimum, it’s already required by law for the EU to do. They act as if they’ve done something extraordinary with this so they can get out of actually defying Israel in any possible way. It’s just pathetic!
All Israeli products must be banned. Not just occupation. Israel will lie about goods not being from occupation... They consider any occupied land as Israel.
Israel has been busted multiple times washing these zones by importing and shipping from them. If you don't ban trade directly with Israel, you're just wasting your time.
Why don't they just not buy anything from Israel at all? The government there can stop the illegal settlements, and the people can vote in a government to stop the illegal settlements if a trade embargo starts hurting them they will
Any time someone tries to impose trade sanctions, it sets up an economic incentive to evade those sanctions. In this case I can see shell companies being set up with mailing addresses in Israel that would allow them to not be suject to these restrictions who are actually just warehouses that accept delivery of goods from restricted settlements so that they can be resold as unsanctioned "products of Israel". The shell company might not even need a physical warehouse, but just act as a legal fiction.
This isn't a reson to not implement such a restriction scheme, but does mean that the language of the law needs to include peovisions covering such attempts to get around the restrictions.
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Double standards. Meanwhile the judgement that this is based on is an advisory position.
…about backing a plan…
…for boycotting trade.
But only against the settlers…
…that they deem are illegal.
So nothing then.
This isn't a reson to not implement such a restriction scheme, but does mean that the language of the law needs to include peovisions covering such attempts to get around the restrictions.