Ursula von der Leyen
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Brussels’ executive was putting all bilateral payments to Israel “on hold” over the Gaza war.
Europe should suspend the E.U.-Israel Association Agreement and impose sanctions, including an embargo on arms sales, Pedro Sánchez said.
Israel’s war to destroy Hamas is “the war of the free world,” Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told lawmakers in Brussels.
The E.U. has backtracked from its initial promise to review aid to the Palestinians.
“If Hamas could have its way, it would do to us exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews,” the Israeli prime minister told her.
The Israeli premier repeated his call for the international community “to take a hard line against Iran and its accelerated progress towards nuclear weapons.”
Ben-Gurion University to bestow on Ursula von der Leyen an honorary doctorate for statesmanship and combating anti-Semitism.
