The first hearing in a landmark lawsuit against Israel enters its second day on Friday at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The first hearing in a landmark lawsuit against Israel enters its second day on Friday at the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Because the EU has a ton of countries and some have been silent and some haven’t. The EU doesn’t really speak for its member states. Like Germany has been both vocal and wrong on the topic. The baltics and Poland doesn’t care much since Ukraine is a more important topic currently due to their border with Russia and never having much of a relationship with Israel.
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Yea, seems about right. Like the only other thing the EU can even do, other than the strongly worded letter, is an embargo I guess but I don’t think the EU does much business with Israel anyways so it would be symbolic anyways and Germany would veto it the first chance it got.
You honestly don’t think the EU does much business with Israel?
Well, they do.
Check out this link from the EU for more details: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/israel/european-union-and-israel_en?s=200
Huh, 1/3 of Israel’s total trade, that is a surprise for sure. Must be more western European countries then. Well I hope the Hague finds them guilty and the EU does some heavy sanctions then.