By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
More than a dozen Israel-First state attorneys general have warned the Netherlands and Great Britain that their anti-Israel trade sanctions might invite retaliation.
Led by Iowa’s Brenna Bird, 13 GOP attorneys general wrote to the ambassadors of the two countries to denounce trade sanctions on products from the West Bank because of Israeli settlements and vicious settler violence there.
The letter claims that the sanctions “impose substantial harm on economic actors around the world, including those within our States.” Retaliation could be ahead because states have passed laws that forbid contracts “with companies that boycott Israel.”
In September, Britain “announced that it will introduce a new sanctions regime targeting settlements in the occupied West Bank over the next six to nine months, under the powers conferred to it by the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018,” the Global Sanctions and Export Controls Blog explained.
But Great Britain was not alone: 11 countries joined them and “committed to introduce national restrictions, or support European restrictions, on trade in goods with settlements that are illegal under international law.”..
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/foreign-policy/13-state-ags-warn-britain-netherlands-to-drop-anti-israel-sanctions-on-west-bank-settlements/
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