One year on: Governments have obligations to hold Israel to account

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Ultimately, if Israel continues to defy the international community, then there are several concrete steps available, ranging from expulsion of Israeli diplomats and halting existing negotiations (for example halting arms sales to Israel from the European Union) to stopping technical assistance so long as Israel continues to violate international law by building settlements and constructing the Wall. A further measure could include the EU suspending its Association Agreement with Israel on the grounds that Israel has persistently violated the human rights clause to the Agreement.

This will be extremely unlikely, Israel being both a sacred cow and source of terror to the Western governments, who seem to lose the little spine they have when it comes to Palestine. Of course they do lose their spine in the question of Chechnya etc, but everyone who knows what the world map looks like knows that the Western governments could tell to Israel what it can and what it can´t do. With Russia things are more complicated - you can´t just send troops to Grozny, but you could send them to the West Bank - but the current silence is still unacceptable. I find it odd that all these Christian leaders choose to become Pontius Pilatus when it comes to cases like the occupation and ethnic cleansing of what remains of Palestine or the still ongoing genocide in Chechnya.