EU-Israel Trade Association Agreement Must Be Immediately Suspended – McNamara
Michael McNamara, Independent MEP for Ireland South, has called for the immediate suspension of the European Union’s Trade Association Agreement with Israel, while stating that the EU has failed to hold Israel to account.
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Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, McNamara stated: “Every statement of the European Commission on Israel begins with ‘its right to defend itself and the right of every state to defend itself.’ But Israel is no longer involved in a defensive war against Hamas in Gaza. It is engaged in war crimes in Gaza. It is also seeking to emasculate the Palestinian people in the West Bank while people’s eyes are diverted to the horrors of what it is doing in Gaza.”
“Israel’s attack on Iran was not a defensive strike, it was an unlawful and unprovoked strike designed to subvert the negotiations that were taking place between Iran and the Trump Government,” he added.
Commissioner Kaja Kallas, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, was in attendance at the plenary session, with McNamara addressing her directly saying: “Madame Kallas, you rightly call for the respect of international law in Ukraine by Russia, but those calls are fatally undermined by your failure to do the same in Israel.”
McNamara concluded: “The European Union must suspend its trade association agreement now. And Germany, which because it fuelled a genocide against Jews now feels obliged to fuel another one, must ends its arms shipments to Israel.”
