{"id":615354,"date":"2026-09-14T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615354\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:10:15","slug":"failing-to-act-in-the-west-bank-or-in-the-west-israel-brought-u-k-s-sanctions-upon-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/615354\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing to Act in the West Bank or in the West, Israel Brought U.K.\u2019s Sanctions Upon Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s relationship with Europe reached an unhappy watershed on Tuesday as British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an unprecedented set of sanctions targeting West Bank settlements.<\/p>\n<p>He was joined by France and Canada, and a group of other Western countries signed on to a statement that they would support European Union measures against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The true scope of the sanctions remains to be seen, as do the precise means of implementing them.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the decision underscores how ineffective Israel\u2019s government has been in maintaining support among erstwhile Western partners, who are increasingly unhappy with Israel\u2019s treatment of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of working to isolate obsessively anti-Israel countries in Europe like Spain and Ireland, Jerusalem is making it easy for those critics to pull powerful states to their side.<\/p>\n<p>Published originally on September 13, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Read the full article a the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/failing-to-act-in-the-west-bank-or-in-the-west-israel-brought-uks-flawed-sanctions-upon-itself\/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Times of Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s relationship with Europe reached an unhappy watershed on Tuesday as British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-615354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615354","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=615354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}