A EUROPEAN WAKE UP ????

 

"WE WILL BURY THE PALESTINIAN STATE: EUROPEANS WILL HAVE NOTHING MORE TO RECOGNIZE!"

= Statement made the day before yesterday by Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance and Settlement Development. These are not empty threats: he is simultaneously approving the construction of 3,400 housing units in the E1 area. For 29 years (since 1996), all Israeli governments have backed down in the face of international pressure and have renounced colonizing this absolutely strategic E1 area.
• Why is this a historic shift? 1) Because the E1 zone will permanently isolate the Northern West Bank (Ramallah - Nablus) from the Southern West Bank (Bethlehem - Hebron); 2) Because the E1 zone will completely isolate East Jerusalem (where 400,000 Palestinians live) from the rest of the West Bank. More details here: https://orange-juditha-6.tiiny.site via Daniel Seideman

• His supremacist accomplice Ben-Gvir went to Marwan Barghouti's cell yesterday and told him, on camera: "We will annihilate you, we will erase you."
• Why is this important? 1) Because these are the first images of Barghouti released in years and because he appears VERY thin. 15 days ago, I signed a text with 172 personalities to remind everyone that the release of the "Palestinian Mandela" is the only political option available to restore the Palestinian Authority and restart a negotiation process. If Barghouti suffered the same fate as Navalni, if he dies in his cell, this political perspective disappears. https://lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/08/02/une-liberation-de-marwan-barghouti-par-israel-serait-essentielle-pour-avancer-vers-la-paix-et-une-solution-a-deux-etats_6626344_3232.html

• Yesterday, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel traveled to Somaliland to negotiate the "relocation" of Gaza residents. The day before, Netanyahu confirmed on CNN that Israel is "negotiating with several countries right now," adding that "anyone who wants to help the Palestinians should open their doors to them." The plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza is therefore officially accepted at the highest level. As a reminder, on August 9, Trump confirmed on camera that he plans to recognize Somaliland if it accepts those expelled from Gaza.

• On i24NEWS English Netanyahu said yesterday that he felt "invested with a historic and spiritual mission" and was "very attached to the vision of Greater Israel" (as a reminder, "Greater Israel" includes Israel + West Bank + Jordan + Lebanon + Syria + Sinai). He added that any "political solution to the Gaza war would be synonymous with capitulation for Israel." The expansionist headlong rush is clearly accelerating.

> On July 24, Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu declared on the radio that "the Israeli government is engaged in a race against time to annihilate Gaza. We are eliminating its inhabitants. Gaza will be entirely Jewish." He speaks the truth, simply and bluntly, like Smotrich, like Ben-Gvir, like Netanyahu. Nothing is hidden, everything is assumed.

>> Faced with this absolute emergency, Germany decided on August 8th to impose an arms embargo on Israel. This was a historic decision, with far-reaching consequences (Germany accounts for 30% of arms imports to Israel). Norway, which holds the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, canceled all of its investments in Israel on August 11th.
>>> What is France doing? It "strongly condemns" the plan to annihilate Gaza (August 8); it "expresses its deep concern about the heavy price paid by journalists in Gaza" (August 12); it supports "the deployment of a temporary international stabilization mission in Gaza" (August 12); it has not yet reacted to the announcement of the colonization of the E1 zone.
• If Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Noël Barrot & France Diplomatie wait for the official proclamation of the State of Palestine on September 21 at the UN, they will no longer have anything to recognize, as Smotrich so cruelly but so rightly says.

> Pressure must increase for IMMEDIATE AND BINDING SANCTIONS on Israel a) Trade sanctions that will empty the stores in a few days and that will have an immediate effect on a geographically isolated and economically strangled country; b) legal sanctions by supporting the ICC arrest warrants and demonstrating to Israeli soldiers that they will never again be able to travel to countries that are signatories to international legal treaties; c) diplomatic sanctions by immediately banning European soil to all members of the Israeli government ("Schengen Travel Ban"); d) military and strategic sanctions: the announcement of a German embargo on arms deliveries to Israel is a decisive first step, it must be supported and amplified.

• It is one minute to midnight. If immediate and credible sanctions are not announced in the coming hours, the promise of recognition of Palestine next September will be null and void: Emmanuel Macron will have finally recognized a cemetery.

#SANCTIONS #CeaseFireNOW #BringThemHomeNOW

[Sources: CNN, Haaretz.com, The Times of Israel, Le Monde]

As received in French by email, translated by Google and myself, to fit our blog, for the better understanding of what is happening over there under the eyes of the entire world. 

As always, my many thanks to all.