US and EU civil servants call to end diplomatic support for Israel

In a call for peace, 100 leading politicians, artists and scholars also called to impose an EU embargo on weapons sales to Israel (Photo: UNRWA)
US and EU civil servants call to end diplomatic support for Israel
EU & the World
EU Political
by Shada Islam, Brussels, 
More than 800 serving US and European civil servants have called for an end to their governments' diplomatic and military support for Israel, saying the US and EU risked contributing "to grave violations of international law, war crimes and even ethnic cleansing or genocide."
In an unprecedented joint statement, seen by EUobserver, the officia...
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Author BioShada Islam is an EUobserver columnist.
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