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Should the international community sanction Israel over settler violence in West Bank?

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FloralDeerPattern · 19/03/2026 20:03

The problem of Israeli terrorism is getting worse and worse. Just over the past few weeks amongst other things Israeli terrorists have killed multiple people, commited sexual assault, beaten and threatened to rape young Palestinian girls, continually attacked the residents and property of the only remaining fully Christian town in the West Bank, stolen 100s of sheep from the Bedouin community, beaten activists who are there to provide a protective presence to Palestinians, set fire to property.

Palestinians don't have the right to defend themselves from this violent, rapidly escalating Israeli terrorism. They can't arrest and detain the Israeli terrorists. They are sitting ducks with no means of protecting themselves from beatings and sexual violence. Is it time that the international community steps in and sanctions Israel until they can control their obvious terrorism problem? What else can be done to try and protect innocent people from this escalating Israeli violence?

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Ellen2shoes · 25/03/2026 22:31

How loud does the alarm need to be? Without sanctions we can only surmise that Europe is wholly complicit.

MissyB1 · 25/03/2026 22:19

I think it’s clear Israel are taking the West Bank, they are still controlling Gaza, and plan to take some of Lebanon (a large buffer zone they called it), where next ?! 😡

Ellen2shoes · 25/03/2026 21:09

Agree that any small step is better than nothing. Even Germany is now talking about sanctions but talking is stalling.
Have posted this elsewhere but pertinent here too as cannot see how Europe can continue to support this. Unreported beyond belief by Western media as eyes are on attack on Iran.

Excepts from a post by Btselem 2 hours ago:

Large Israeli forces entered the Silwan neighbourhood today to evict 11 Palestinians families from their homes.
Israel is expanding its ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem, throwing Palestinian families into the streets. The eviction of 11 families marks the continuation of a massive displacement wave:

approximately 2,200 people in Silwan are facing an imminent threat of forced displacement. 150 families (15000 individuals) in al Bustan and 90 families (700 individuals) in Baten al Hawa.

This is the reality of systemic institutionalised violence

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FloralDeerPattern · 23/03/2026 23:18

Something I've seen a few times over the past few days is people from Britain and Australia(and I'm sure many more countries but these are the two I have seen) donating to charities that help fund the illegal settlements. Given that these donations are tax deductible that effectively means taxpayers are subsidising illegal occupation and militarisation. Perhaps a small step would be to strip these organisations of their charitable status?

One of these charities that comes up in both Aus and the UK is The Jewish National fund. It has supported settlers that displace Palestinians and militia groups that perpetrate violence in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. UK toremet is accused of sending UK Gift Aid to settler groups to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. Millions of pounds being funnelled from the UK to help these Israeli terrorists in their quest for a Greater Israel and they are using tax payers money to do it.

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MissyB1 · 23/03/2026 08:47

Ellen2shoes · 23/03/2026 03:22

By which time ethnic cleansing of the West Bank will be a fait accompli?

Governments everywhere are focussing on US and Israeli leaderships too, mostly with growing alarm at their destructive intent.

I wish our Government would grow a pair and admit this, instead of constant appeasement of the two lunatics.

rainingsnoring · 23/03/2026 04:23

Yes. They should have sanctioned Israel a very long time ago.
It won't happen though because the US will vetoe it.

TigTails · 23/03/2026 03:56

Savvysix1984 · 20/03/2026 11:06

Yes but nothing will be done as they can get away with murder with no recourse. They’re basically untouchable by the western world.

You can’t say that! That’s antisemitic! 🙄

Twiglets1 · 23/03/2026 03:32

Ellen2shoes · 23/03/2026 03:22

By which time ethnic cleansing of the West Bank will be a fait accompli?

Governments everywhere are focussing on US and Israeli leaderships too, mostly with growing alarm at their destructive intent.

I don’t think the West Bank is top of the agenda re international concerns about what is going on in the world.

Maybe it should be a higher priority than it appears to be, I wouldn’t argue with that.

Ellen2shoes · 23/03/2026 03:22

By which time ethnic cleansing of the West Bank will be a fait accompli?

Governments everywhere are focussing on US and Israeli leaderships too, mostly with growing alarm at their destructive intent.

Twiglets1 · 23/03/2026 02:58

The Settler violence in the West Bank is not acceptable. I doubt you could find many people on MN who think it’s ok.

How to deal with it is problematic though. Despite the tough talking from some world leaders in the international community, the Israel leadership is not their biggest problem. Especially at the moment when governments generally are more focused on the Iranian leadership.

Hopefully the more extremist element in the Israeli government will be punished at the next election for their pro Settler stance, and voted out.

BiteSizeByzantine · 23/03/2026 00:47

Absolutely!

Snugglemonkey · 23/03/2026 00:17

Definitely

binnibonnieboo · 22/03/2026 23:58

They should have sanctioned them long ago.

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FloralDeerPattern · 22/03/2026 20:04

Boolabus · 22/03/2026 19:47

And on it goes.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew719w80g7o

Yup, Israeli terrorism allowed to happen completely unchecked, no arrests, no attempts to protect innocent people from terrorist attacks that they knew were going to happen.

Yesh Din, an Israeli civil rights group that works to protect the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank, described the attacks as "a night of pogroms".

"Despite prior knowledge of the planned attacks, forces once again failed to prepare accordingly," the group said in a statement posted on X on Sunday evening. "No preventive measures were put in place to stop the pogroms, and no suspects have been arrested - neither in real time nor since ."

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Itsabingthin · 22/03/2026 19:54

Yes

Boolabus · 22/03/2026 19:47

And on it goes.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew719w80g7o

Ellen2shoes · 20/03/2026 23:53

FloralDeerPattern · 20/03/2026 11:03

I suppose the question is what happens in the mean time? The power balance is obviously very off. The attack by Israelis on Palestinians a few days ago was very extreme, sexual violence, young girls being beaten and threatened with rape. Palestinians cannot defend themselves or they will be detained or killed. They can't drop 2000lb bombs on Israeli terrorists in the name of self defence. They are being assaulted, terrorised and killed by Israelis and they are just supposed to sit and hope that next time Israelis will vote better?

Who else would be expected to do that? Can nothing really be done in the meantime to protect them from Israeli violence? Israeli rights group, Yesh Din, said 109 separate incidents of violence by Israeli citizens, which included shootings, physical assaults and property damage had been reported in 62 Palestinian communities during the first 10 days of the war with Iran. Israel are duty bound to protect the people that they occupy but instead they are allowing their citizens to terrorise them but because they are allies nothing should be done to try and protect people from terrorism?

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Of course it can be done. However, every attempt to make it happen is silenced, including on here.

Pro pally useful idiot anti semitic terrorist supporting hate marchers - a few casually dropped insults aimed at anti genocide posters, normalised and deemed acceptable by Mumsnet .

Hence support for the attacks on Iran slide eye away from relentless bombing resulting in the slaughter of innocent civilians in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran is silenced/deleted/acceptable/ routinely ignored.

Microcosmic moral inversion.

BelleHathor · 20/03/2026 23:19

Yes sadly, we're all going to suffer but Netanyahu has made a fatal mistake.

This affects so many people who were unaware of what was happening, however since its now hitting them personally, it's opened millions of eyes and the blame will be squarely laid on him and anyone who supported/facilitated this disaster.

NotTerfNorCis · 20/03/2026 22:54

Israel is out of control. We're all going to suffer because of its current attack on Iran.

Ellen2shoes · 20/03/2026 22:46

BunfightBetty · 20/03/2026 13:59

Agree with this, sadly.

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‘Sanctions, meh. I don't think they work. And we don't generally sanction our allies for their 'internal' problems so its never happening anyway’ @dairydebris

tIllegal occupation is not an ‘internal problem’.

What is your interpretation of an ally?
Someone in alignment with our objectives and morals?

TheGrimSmile · 20/03/2026 16:10

Yes they should. But they won't.

Silence1 · 20/03/2026 15:54

Yes. Shame on Israel and their citizens for allowing it to go on.

MissyB1 · 20/03/2026 15:47

FloralDeerPattern · 20/03/2026 13:38

This is just is, I wonder does everyone realise that they can't call the police, they can't call on an army - the Israeli one will help your attacker, most of the time if they call an ambulance even that will be purposefully held back from reaching them. You can be sexually assaulted, your young girls can be beaten and threatened with rape and there is nothing you can do. There is no one to protect you, there is no justice, if you try and protect yourself you will be labelled a terrorist and detained or killed.

I don't see how in good conscience we can expect this of people. I wouldn't support bombing or war to rid Israel of their terrorists but peaceful means should absolutely be explored.

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Sanctions and diplomatic pressure had an effect in South Africa, dh grew up there in the apartheid era. He remembers how they were banned from many international events, sports etc.. Although there was a lot of censorship, and of course no internet then, but even so they knew most of the world disapproved of what was happening there. Israel’s Government are very arrogant but they could be made to feel the pressure.

BunfightBetty · 20/03/2026 13:59

dairydebris · 20/03/2026 07:15

The violence and displacement in the West Bank shames Israel. The recent shooting of the Bani Owda family was heinous.
I see the ongoing crimes as a part of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict as a whole- stems from Palestinians not having their own state with their own completely independent from Israel self determination. The only way they are getting their own state is when both Netanyahu is replaced by an Israeli commited to a Palestinian state and when Palestinians have leadership commited to a Palestinian state not won through violence.
So this is what I hope for. Regime change on both sides if you will.
Sanctions, meh. I don't think they work. And we don't generally sanction our allies for their 'internal' problems so its never happening anyway.

Agree with this, sadly.

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FloralDeerPattern · 20/03/2026 13:38

Boolabus · 20/03/2026 11:17

@FloralDeerPattern quite agree Palestinians are just expected to suck it up because if they try and defend themselves, their families, their homes, their land, their lives, they will face brutal repercussions from Israeli law enforcement. They are sitting ducks in the west bank.

This is just is, I wonder does everyone realise that they can't call the police, they can't call on an army - the Israeli one will help your attacker, most of the time if they call an ambulance even that will be purposefully held back from reaching them. You can be sexually assaulted, your young girls can be beaten and threatened with rape and there is nothing you can do. There is no one to protect you, there is no justice, if you try and protect yourself you will be labelled a terrorist and detained or killed.

I don't see how in good conscience we can expect this of people. I wouldn't support bombing or war to rid Israel of their terrorists but peaceful means should absolutely be explored.

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