More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare “concrete measures against Israel’s violations of international law”, diplomats told Middle East Eye.
The “emergency summit” is due to be held on 15-16 July, co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, to coordinate diplomatic and legal action to counter what they describe as “a climate of impunity” enabled by Israel and its powerful allies.
The founding members of the group included Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa.
States due to take part in the summit include Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Honduras, Indonesia, Ireland, Lebanon, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Portugal, Spain, Qatar, Turkey, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, and Palestine.
At this point, I’d be happy just to see the EU deny Israel flights access to their airspace. Make Netanyahoo fly over Libya on his way to suck off the US predident and congress.
EU, as an institution, has no mandate to say anything on this, but we all know were Von der Leyen shamefully falls and vividly advocates for, probably pressuring states too. These matters are controlled by member states but, unfortunately almost all fall in line to whatever Germany says (the well NATO vetted Von der Leyen comes from). Almost all countries in the EU would let Netanyahu or Israelis operatives in their land without much reservation, if any… that is the hard true.