Spain welcomes European nations and key Arab to put pressure on Israel to stop the assault on Gaza.
The Madrid group has summoned itself into the Spanish capital for the fifth time, during a meeting assisted by the major European and Arab nations.
The pressure on Israel this year has been increased, Spain calling for an arms embargo in Israel and the imposition of sanctions to people who obstruct a solution to two states to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The United Kingdom has interrupted commercial talks and sanctioned a number of Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank. Canada and France have also threatened punitive measures.
And the European Union – Israel’s largest trading partner – examines its agreement from the historic association covering trade and political dialogue.
But after 20 months of the destruction of Israel of Gaza, why does it happen now?
And without changes in the field for the Palestinians, are these actions more than diplomaticly symbolic?
Presenter: Tom McRae
Guests:
Lynn Boylan – Member of the European Parliament, and president of the delegation of relations with Palestine
Mouin Rabbani – Fellow non -resident at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies
Saul Takahashi – Former deputy chief of the United Nations High Commissioner Office for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine
