• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    The EU is funding Palestine, much to the chagrin of the Israeli right-wing – but they can’t go full on “the EU is our enemy” mode because the EU does not blindly antagonise Israel. And then, in practice, boycotts products produced in settlements (they have to be labelled such, no “made in Israel”, and noone is buying settlement products).

    It’s much easier to influence people when you have both a stick and a carrot. And when it comes to funding that can only ever be a carrot in Israel’s case as they have enough resources to do without, while in Palestine you can use it as both stick and carrot.

    The situation over here is vastly more complex and most of all the policies much more deliberate than what you hear out of the US, “evangelicals believe that Israel is important for the rupture thus they ship weapons without regards to pretty much anything”.

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      10 months ago

      Okay this actually makes a lot of sense. I still believe it’s tone-deaf to expect Palestinians to go all peace and love when Israel is like… that, but this explains why the EU isn’t as tough on Israel as it could be.