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Some weeks ago, EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas commented about the futility of suspending the EU-Israeli Association Agreement, saying it would not stop settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. The EU has now sanctioned three Israeli settles and four settler organisations. “It was high time we move from deadlock to delivery,” Kallas stated. “Extremisms and violence carry consequences.” Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had repeatedly used the veto to block sanctions. However, the EU had repeatedly exhibited its reluctance to stop any part of Israel’s violence. Orban was just one temporary part of the EU’s constructed impunity for Israel. What remains at an institutional and political level carries far more consequences than Orban.
The EU’s feigned concern with settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank will not stop Israel’s colonial expansion. Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir already declared there is no stopping Israel from settling “throughout the entire land of Israel.”
