Europe’s inaction makes it complicit in Israel’s crimes, ex-foreign policy chief
The European Union’s former foreign policy chief has warned about continued European inaction in the face of the Israeli regime’s ongoing atrocities, saying such inertia renders Brussels complicit in Tel Aviv’s crimes.
Joesp Borrell passed the comments in an opinion piece that was published in The Guardian on Friday.
“Those who do not act to stop this genocide and these violations of international law, even though they have the power to do so, are complicit in them,” he wrote.
Borrell cited the regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide against the Gaza Strip that has so far claimed the lives of at least 60,332 Palestinians, mostly women and children, as a case in point.
The former official also referenced Tel Aviv’s simultaneous near-total siege of the coastal sliver as well as the regime’s and its illegal settlers’ daily deadly assaults across the occupied West Bank.
The EU, he reminded, is the regime’s largest trading partner, a key investor, and a major supplier of weapons.
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Borrell noted that the 2000 so-called association agreement between the two sides, was the most generous accord the bloc had ever signed with a third-party.
He underscored how the deal granted Tel Aviv tariff-free access, visa privileges, and entry into prestigious EU programs like the Horizon innovation fund and the Erasmus educational fund.
Yet Article 2 of that same agreement is unequivocal, underlining that these privileges were contingent on respect for human rights and international law, the ex-official stated, adding that the regime had violated those conditions, flagrantly and repeatedly.
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Borrell also further underscored the urgency of meaningful and effective European-wide action amid the shortcomings faced by other implementation mechanisms such as the international courts.
He stressed that even if the tribunals survived US President Donald Trump’s determined push to stop them from issuing punitive measures against Tel Aviv and punish them for the measures they had already taken, it would still take them years to deliver a proper final condemnatory verdict.
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