Europe begins to react to Israel

It has taken a long time, and there have been terrible images of hunger in Gaza, but it seems that Europe is finally beginning to understand that it cannot stand idly by in the face of the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip. The European Union has agreed to a partnership with Israel to verify whether the country is fulfilling its human rights obligations. These two decisions were preceded by a letter signed by French President Emmanuel Macron; perhaps timid, but they demonstrate that Israel is crossing all red lines with the Palestinian population in an action that is difficult for European public opinion to swallow. Indiscriminate bombing and blockade of supplies have turned the Strip into the place on the planet most similar to hell right now. There is no doubt about its intentions: what it seeks is to empty Gaza of Palestinians by practicing large-scale ethnic cleansing. Beyond the semantic debate about whether we are witnessing genocide or not, the truth is that it closely resembles it on one point: the desire to change the population configuration of a specific area through violence. And a supposedly democratic state that pursues a policy like this cannot expect the rest of the world to turn a blind eye and pretend that nothing is happening.

The European decision coincided with a debate in Congress on the consideration of a law to decree a total arms embargo on Israel. The initiative by Sumar and Podemos has prospered, even with the support of Junts, a party with a strong pro-Israeli sector. Junts' gesture demonstrates the extent to which even those who have always considered themselves friends of Israel can no longer justify the completely cruel and inhumane actions of its government. Now all that's left is for the United States to join the pressure to finally stop this carnage and find diplomatic solutions. Because Israel must understand that it cannot live in peace without a just solution for its Palestinian neighbors.