The EU has been criticised for pausing sanctions against Israel’s government in response to Donald Trump’s peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, as the fragile ceasefire came under threat.

After meeting EU foreign ministers on Monday, the European foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, announced a pause on efforts to suspend preferential trade with Israel and sanctions against people responsible for fuelling the conflict on both sides.**

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    It’s not even sanctions, it’s just pausing “preferential trade with Israel”.

    The EU want to list everything because… trade but also because European bureaucrats love a bit of colonialism

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      but also because European bureaucrats love a bit of colonialism

      they’re the ones to invented the form that we’re living in, so this tracks. lol

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      Indeed. The EU postponed sanctioning Israel for two years and the second there is a fake ceasefire they use it as a pretense to throw implementing the sanctions out the window.