{"id":27057,"date":"2025-09-20T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/27057\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:50:06","slug":"merz-ally-pushes-back-on-eus-sanctions-plan-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/27057\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz Ally Pushes Back on EU\u2019s Sanctions Plan Against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A key ally of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pushed back against a European Union proposal to suspend Israel\u2019s preferential trade benefits in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cSanctions against Israel are fundamentally wrong,\u201d Markus Soeder, head of the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union party that\u2019s affiliated with Merz\u2019s governing Christian Democrats, told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. \u201cWe as the CSU will not accept this in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A key ally of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pushed back against a European Union proposal to suspend Israel\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23669,19574,63,50,23671,170,42,46,23670,43,238,40,38,41,39,7734,8695],"class_list":["post-27057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christian-social-union-in-bavaria","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-europe","tag-gaza","tag-german-election","tag-germany","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-markus-soeder","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}