The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, will propose to EU governments to suspend political dialogue with Israel. This will be the proposal that the head of diplomacy will present during his last meeting with EU foreign ministers as part of the review of the agreement with Israel proposed by Spain and Ireland and which is remained in the drawers for months due to the lack of consensus within the community club.
The proposal is based on the violation of international and humanitarian law in Gaza, which the 27 have already reported for the attacks against peacekeepers in Lebanon and whose non-compliance constitutes a violation of the rules of the association agreement of the EU with Israel.
The proposal will be discussed at the Foreign Affairs Council, scheduled for next Monday in Brussels, to see what member states think about it.
Borrell is thus fulfilling his promise to bring this issue to the last Foreign Affairs Council which he will chair before handing over to the Estonian Kaja Kallas.
According to reports from independent international organizations, there are reasons to consider that Israel is violating human rights and international humanitarian law, add diplomatic sources cited by the EFE agency, who specify that the suspension of dialogue policy does not mean the suspension of the association agreement. . or the Association Council. In fact, they added, this could be an issue that could be discussed in the Association Council with Israel.
Now the proposal officially puts on the table the debate among member states over how they view Israel’s behavior and whether they believe Benjamin Netanyahu’s government could violate human rights and international humanitarian law .
At the same time, according to diplomatic sources, this is a “serious political signal” about how the EU views the behavior of the Israeli authorities in the face of the war in Gaza and Lebanon.
This step comes after Borrell confirmed the impossibility of meeting the Association Council with Israel to listen to the head of diplomacy of this country, as requested by the Foreign Ministers of the Twenty-Seven before last summer .
