Pro-Filistini protests are prominent European City, and the calls are growing for restrictions Israel From sports and cultural programs. European Navy has been deployed to protect workers trying to get assistance Gaza -And a wave of countries has recognized the kingdom once and a Palestinian kingdom.
As the resentment over human destruction increases, more European leaders, sometimes inspired by the pressure of their population, openly condemned Israel’s war conduct and demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to agree and allow assistance to the ceasefire.
Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa Program of the Chautham House Think Tank, said, “A ground-breaking shift in Europe, where last year’s population has put more pressure on its governments, which has helped to break the taboos at the top on the criticism of Israel.”
Italian premiere Goria MeloniOne of the European Union colleagues closest to Israel, last week said that it would support the European Union sanctions against Israel. This was his most difficult situation so far, and after a nationwide strike in Italy and Palestinian protests from Palermo to Milan.
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Meloni said: “Israel violated human norms, causing a massacre among the citizens.”
Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas -led terrorists launched aerial and ground attacks on Israel, some killed some 1,200 people and took over 250 hostages, Israel’s military operation in Gaza killed more than 66,000 people, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry does not distinguish the part of the Hamas-Interested Government and the medical professionals between employees, citizens and fighters, but say that women and children are made in about half.
The war has also destroyed the vast areas of Gaza, killed 289 journalists, for the safety of journalists, about 90% of the population of Gaza was displaced, and Gaza caused a terrible human crisis, including an outbreak of famine in the city.
According to the armed struggle place and event data project, pro-Pilstinian protests have increased, or acled, which monitors conflicts worldwide. There were 780 protests across Europe from December to April. Researcher Ciro Murillo said that in the last five months, it has been 2,066, which is at least 15 days per day.
Protests cut parties and include members of large Muslim communities in Europe, which is an important polling block in countries such as France and Germany.
In the last six months, only 51 supporters in Europe have been protested in Israel, about half of them were in Germany. A few months after the war began, public support for Israel declined once.
Speaking at the United Nations two days after Meloni, Netanyahu seemed to accept the turn.
He said, “Surely, in the days immediately after 7 October, many … but the support was quickly evaporated when Israel did so what a self -respecting nation would do in view of such a barbaric attack,” he told the world leaders.
Israel’s deep relations with Europe
With a shared birth after World War II, Israel and European Union are completely associated with each other.
Almost all the Jewish Israelis explore their legacy either wide Middle East or Jewish communities of Europe ruined the garbage and genocide of Germany by Pogromes in the Russian Empire.
“Israel is from Europe, and whoever fails to accept it or understands that it does not really understand this country,” A professor of the University of Ben-Gurian and a book author on European-Israeli relations said Sharon Pardo said, “Uncomfortable neighbor.”
Strategic practicality extended Israel to Europe, even though many people considered it a “continent of killers”, Pardo said. The first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurian, began building economic, political and cultural relations with Europe for a long time. Today the European Union is the top trading partner of Israel.
“These were the immediate markets for Israeli agriculture, it was a market for weapons for Israel,” said Pardo.
But Netanyahu, the longest serving of Israel, distant European parties have opposed the European political establishment.
“Netanyahu’s Israel is an anti-European Union country, a euro-scriptic country that does its best to harm the European Integration Project,” said the Pardo.
Criticism of Israel increases in the form of war in Gaza
The shocking violence of October 7, 2023 ignited a post of support from European leaders.
The European Union’s political head Ursula von Der Leyen still met with Netanyahu, after the days of Smolding Kibutz. He promised the support of the European Union for Israel.
But about two years later, the Foreign Minister of Israel, Gidon Sar, accused him of “empowering a terrorist organization”, to increase the pressure on Israel to stop the war with his amazing calls for the European Union.
Von Der Leyen said that there has been a more systematic change in the previous months which is simply unacceptable in the conflict “and” Europe needs to be further enough. ,
Lisa Mousiol, head of the European Union affairs for the International Crisis Group, said she was influenced by increasing protests and was significantly affected by the European Union employees. He pointed to open the letter, criticizing the Gaza policy of the European Union signed by more than 2,000 current European Union employees and 390 former European Ambassadors and officials.
Von Der Leyen proposed to increase the tariff of the European Union on some Israeli goods and approve some Israeli settling and two members of Netanyahu’s cabinet. She will also approve 10 Hamas leaders. European Union leaders were supposed to discuss proposals on Wednesday in Copenhagen.
Measures of the major European Union require assurance-27-A possibility impossible in the nation’s block-some can be passed with a vote-loaded vote by the population. Italy or Germany will need to join Israel’s important nations.
Everyone’s eyes on the table and melony
Germany’s support for Israel is second only to the United States. But Germany’s ruling coalition is divided on Gaza, with the central-right Christian Democrats of Chancellor Frederick Merz with more critical support of the war to Israel and small social democrats.
Merz has talked to Netanyahu about his growing concerns and curb Israel’s sale to weapons, but said he was not considering sanctions.
The historical responsibility of Germany for Holocaust has shaped its latter support to insure Israel’s safety and compete antisemiamism. Nevertheless, thousands of protesters called on the streets of Berlin for the end of war on Saturday.
There will be more likely to swing the vote, which has said that it supports European neighbors, Andraor, Belgium, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, United Kingdom and Portugal along with Commonwealth Nations Canada and Australia to be involved in recent steps to recognize a Palestinian kingdom.
Unlike Germany, Italy has a separate historical relationship for Israel, said Westminster Professor Elisbetta Brighi. Impressed by the country’s strong trade unions and the Vatican, Italy changed and included European efforts to pressurize Gaza to pressurize Israel.
“Italy has not translated the trauma of fascism in the same way as Germany,” she said.
Italy has joined Spain to send naval ships to protect a flotilla of boats that took workers to the activists wishing to break the blockade of Gaza, after the activists said they were attacked by drones near Greece.
Some sports and cultural programs have also increased calls to ban Israel, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that protesters said after disrupting the Spanish Wulta Cycling race last month that Israel should be excluded until the end of Gaza. Some countries have also threatened to boycott the Eurovision song competition – extremely popular in Israel and Europe – if Israel is allowed to compete.
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AP Writors Silvia Stelaki and Giada Zampana contributed to the report in Rome and Kirsten Grizzber in Dasseldorf, Germany.