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

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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?

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.

And on it goes.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew719w80g7o

Yes

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 ."

They should have sanctioned them long ago.

Definitely

Absolutely!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 ?! 😡

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

The lack of action is extremely concerning. The ICJ called on countries to act back in July '24 when they gave their opinion on apartheid and illegal occupation. That was ignored, how many people have been terrorised, killed and displaced since then?

This is the sort of thing that gives rise to conspiracy theories, everyone can see that Israel are committing awful crimes, everyone can see there is no action at all from their governments despite there being very loud calls from their citizens to act, nobody can understand why? Why are Western governments sitting on their hands and watching Israel commit ethnic cleansing of the West Bank? Not even a ban on goods from illegal settlements to try and help make sure we aren't funding them, surely that is completely uncontroversial and would be supported by all?

Yes, definitely. The settlers are at best clinically insane, at worst utterly evil.
Sanction Israel to the absolute hilt. A rogue state, like South Africa was during the apartheid.

100% We should not be “allies” with Israel after all they have done and all that they facilitate settlers to do!

Yes

Husam Zomlot was born in a refugee camp in Rafa and is ambassador to UK - a rarely heard voice but every time I hear him I feel he is the most sincere, dignified and eloquent person in the room. He talks about the Palestine Israel conflict as the elephant in the room - it is at the core of the escalating ME conflict. We cannot begin to address anything else until this is resolved.

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Absolutely not.

Nobody bats an eyelid when the Azeris are turfing Armenians off land they have lived on for a thousand years, or when Arabs are targeting any of the minority groups in Syria, or iraq. Darfur rolls on without a mention on noticeboards such as this.

Why should the Jews be singled out over a few square kilometres of rock and scrub?

Thanks for the heads up about the Jewish National Fund.

You seem to be trying to use Whataboutery to justify a genocide. How depressing.

I don't know where to start with this. Firstly, it's troubling that you're referring to the settlers and the Israeli government as 'the Jews'. We're always, quite rightly, being told we shouldn't conflate Israel with Judaism, yet you're doing just that. The many wonderful Jewish human rights activists who condemn settler violence, would be horrified to be considered in any way connected to the far-right nut jobs stealing Palestinian land.

Secondly, of course I condemn any other acts of land theft, no matter by whom. There are individuals of all faiths and none whose actions I'd profoundly oppose. I'm a Christian, and there are many terrible chapters in Christian history that I'm horrified by. Likewise Islamic extremists; whom I by no means think represent all Muslims. No faith group has a spotless history, and all human rights violations should be equally condemned. It's always about those individuals, never about the entire religion or race.

Speaking personally, the reason I'm focusing on Israel/Palestine so much at the moment, is that the British government is so directly complicit. At Israel's foundation in 1948, and to the present day. America even moreso these days; and it does feel like America & Israel could collectively start world war 3 if they're not reigned in. So, it's understandable that Israel is at the epicentre of our collective consciousness, as it's also at the epicentre of much of current affairs internationally at the moment.

I don't think any moral human being who knows even a fraction of what is going on, with good critical thinking skills, could not be utterly beyond horrified by the actions of those vile nutters on the West Bank, whom I don't even regard as Jewish, as they reject the beauty and morality of that ancient religion, which, when practiced properly, like all faiths, generates love, compassion and inclusion, not violence and hate.

Peace and dignity for all, of all faiths and none 🕊️🙏