The FT quotes EU officials saying “we may be about to see massive ethnic cleansing” and "we’ll pay a heavy price in the global south [for supporting it]".
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This is insane. They're predicting a "massive ethnic cleansing": why on earth is it so hard to, at the very least, to say this shouldn't happen? They're normally so eager to lecture the whole planet for even the slightest hint of a perceived human rights violation... But when one of them is about to commit what might rank as one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the century, expressing concern is suddenly "an impossible tightrope"
Damn right they'll pay an extremely heavy price for it in the global South! Whatever credibility they had left (which wasn't much) will be completely gone for a very, very long time. And it will be very much deserved.
In the spirit of fairness I have noticed 2 Western leaders - just 2 - who had enough backbone to express concern about Israel's actions. They are Norwegian foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt who said the blockade on Gaza was "unacceptable" and Ireland's PM Varadkar who said that what is happening in Gaza "amounts to collective punishment". He added: "Cutting off power, cutting off fuel supplies and water supplies, that's not the way a respectable democratic state should conduct itself."
See, how hard is it to say this?
That's how you preserve at least a modicum of integrity as a state.
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