Former Israeli leaders, including a former prime minister, a top scientist, and ex-military and government officials, argue that recent UK sanctions against Israel were an unavoidable reaction to persistent failures in governance and security. The move has been met with support from prominent Israelis, who frame it as a necessary pushback against ongoing settlement expansion and escalating violence in the occupied West Bank. Critics within Israel suggest the measures stem directly from what they see as systemic shortcomings in the country’s political and military handling of the conflict. The debate highlights deep divisions over how to address the worsening humanitarian and diplomatic crisis in the region.
Ed Miliband’s intervention was ‘inevitable’ after Israeli government and security failures, say former ministers and diplomatsProminent Israelis have welcomed new UK sanctions as a necessary response to settlement expansion and spiralling violence in the occupied West Bank.The intervention was described – by the president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a former prime minister, an ex-head of the army and former ministers and diplomats – as an “inevitable consequence” of Israeli government and security failures. Continue reading...
