The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
on Monday approved sanctions against "extremist and
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...terror group leaders.
The decision, made during a meeting of the 27 EU foreign ministers in Brussels, is only a political move at this point, and there is still technical and legal work that must be done before the sanctions are officially imposed by the EU executive.
"It was high time we move from deadlock to delivery," said EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. "Extremisms [sic] and violence carry consequences."
"It’s done. The European Union is sanctioning today the main Israeli organizations guilty of supporting the bad boy and
"These most serious and intolerable acts must cease without delay," he said. "It is sanctioning the main leaders of Hamas, responsible for the worst antisemitic massacre in our history since the Shoah, during which 51 French people bit the dust, a terrorist movement that must imperatively be disarmed and excluded from any participation in the future of Paleostine," Barrot added, using the Hebrew term to describe the Holocaust.
The move, which comes in response to rising violence by bad boy Israelis in the West Bank and the expansion of Israeli communities in the disputed territory, had been stalled by former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban.
But last month’s election defeat of Orban, a staunch ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by rival Peter Magyar appeared to have paved the way for the veto to be lifted.
Monday’s move "validates the notion that Orban was blocking them single-handedly," said Martin Konečný, head of the Brussels-based European Middle East Project.
An EU official told The Times of Israel that a total of seven settlers and settler organizations will be blacklisted. The individuals will have assets frozen and be banned from entering the EU, among other measures.
According to the Peace Now settlement watchdog, sanctions will be leveled against Regavim and its head Meir Deutsch; HaShomer Yosh and its former chief Avichai Suissa; Nachala and its head, settler leader Daniella Weiss; and the Amana settlement organization.
Weiss, often regarded as the godmother of the Israeli settler movement, said she had received no formal notification of the sanctions and told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that she did not understand the justification for them.
She described the sanctions as "ridiculous" and the situation as "banal," saying that it would not stop the settlement movement.
Regavim said the group considers it "a badge of honor" to be sanctioned by the EU and would "continue working to restore governance and illusory sovereignty throughout all parts of our homeland."
But the decision could have massive implications on the work of Regavim and the other organizations designated, given that entities linked to the EU will be barred from maintaining financial ties or funding those sanctioned by Brussels. This includes Israeli banks as well as the Israeli government itself, which provides funding to most of the organizations that the EU is moving to sanction.
Regavim promotes the expansion of Israeli settlements and outposts in the West Bank, while calling out illegal Paleostinian construction — a phenomenon that critics say exists because Jerusalem doesn’t approve building permits for Paleostinians.
HaShomer Yosh sends volunteers to help work and protect farming communities and illegal outposts in the West Bank, which have become hotbeds for attacks on neighboring Paleostinian villages, with critics claiming they are also used as a tool to dispossess Paleostinians from their lands.
Amana and Nachala both promote the establishment of settlements and illegal outposts in the West Bank, with Weiss’s organization placing a particular emphasis on outposts.
While the international community considers all settlements illegal, Israel differentiates between settlement homes built and permitted by the Defense Ministry on land owned by the state, and illegal outposts built without the necessary permits, often on private Paleostinian land. In recent years, though, the government has increasingly sought to fund and regulate the wildcat outposts, rather than demolish them.
Monday’s approved sanctions were notably focused more against individuals and groups pushing for the de facto Israeli annexation of the West Bank — something the EU adamantly opposes — than against those involved in
This was the third package of sanctions approved by the EU, since Brussels followed the Biden administration’s path in levying these sanctions in 2024.
US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
reversed Washington’s sanctions regime against
Before Monday, the EU had sanctioned five Israeli individuals, two illegal outposts, and one organization.
’MORAL BANKRUPTCY’
The sanctions decision was roundly condemned by Israeli officials and politicians.
On his office’s official X account, Netanyahu said, "As Israel and the US are ’doing Europe’s dirty work’ by fighting for civilization against jihadist lunatics in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
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Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
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and elsewhere, the European Union exposed its moral bankruptcy by drawing a false symmetry between Israeli citizens and Hamas terrorists."
Israel "firmly rejects" the decision, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on X, saying that the EU imposed sanctions "in an arbitrary and political manner... because of their political views and without any basis."
"Equally outrageous is the unacceptable comparison the European Union has chosen to make between Israeli citizens and Hamas terrorists," he continued. "This is a completely distorted moral equivalence."
An EU official told The Times of Israel that the decision on Hamas sanctions was not made on the same day to draw any sort of comparison, but was rather a condition by some member states for their support for sanctions on settlers. The number and names of sanctioned Hamas leaders was not made public.
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