Joint List to EU: Suspend ties with Israel if it doesn’t renounce annexation
Joint List MKs in the mourning tent for Iyad Hallak, the autistic Palestinian shot dead by Israeli police, 1 June 2020
The Times of Israel reports:
The Joint List majority-Arab party on Tuesday called on the European Union to suspend its ties with Israel unless Jerusalem announces it has abandoned its plans to annex large parts of the West Bank as envisioned by the Trump peace plan.
In letters to senior EU officials, including foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the 15 Joint List MKs claim that “the traditional approach based on providing incentives to Israel has thus far failed to achieve our shared legitimate positions.”
The party calls on the EU to “seriously examine all options and make it clear that it will suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement should Israel fail to declare that it has permanently abandoned its expansionist aims.” The referenced agreement represents the main legal ties between Israel and Brussels.