Yesterday, the prominent human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield underscored why action against Israel’s crimes is required so urgently. “We are inches away from something that will become genocide on a scale we haven’t seen for some years unless the international community does something about it,” he said… The “international community” to which Mansfield referred is a synonym for the United States and its allies, particularly the European Union. By deepening its trade relations with Israel, the European Union is embracing a perpetrator of genocide.
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