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Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel
Aljazeera ^ | 08/01/2025 | Staff

Posted on 08/02/2025 5:51:58 AM PDT by thegagline

Slovenia has become the first country in the European Union to ban all weapons trade with Israel over its war on Gaza.

The move by the government comes two weeks after the Central European nation declared Israeli ministers persona non grata. The arms embargo was announced by Prime Minister Robert Golob after a government session on Thursday. ***

Amid the devastating war in Gaza, where “people … are dying because humanitarian aid is systematically denied them”, it was the “duty of every responsible state to take action, even if it means taking a step ahead of others”, the statement said.

It added that the government had not issued any permits for the export of military weapons and equipment to Israel since October 2023 because of the conflict.

Early in July, Slovenia – also in an EU first – banned two far-right Israeli ministers from entering the country. *** In June 2024, Slovenia’s parliament passed a decree recognising Palestinian statehood, following in the steps of Ireland, Norway and Spain, in moves partly spurred by condemnation of Israel’s bombing of Gaza.

Last week, France, the United Kingdom and Canada also announced they may recognise a Palestinian state. Israel decried these announcements, saying they were a way of rewarding Hamas for its October 7, 2023 assault on Israeli territory.

Israel has been waging a nearly 22-month war in Gaza that human rights groups and United Nations experts have compared to a genocide. More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military campaign, with more at risk of dying from hunger as a result of Israel’s blockade of the territory.

Several countries, including South Africa, have also brought cases before the International Court of Justice alleging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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1 posted on 08/02/2025 5:51:58 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

The islamic states of Europe


2 posted on 08/02/2025 5:56:06 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: thegagline
Did Israel ever get any arms from Slovenia?

When Germany hops on this bandwagon it will be significant.

3 posted on 08/02/2025 6:06:15 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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Oh noes! What is Israel going to do without access to state of the art Slovenian anti-aircraft systems, stealth fighters and tanks?


4 posted on 08/02/2025 6:06:31 AM PDT by Colorado Doug
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To: butlerweave

Watching the TDF, there were many waving flags of islam.


5 posted on 08/02/2025 6:07:00 AM PDT by Track9 (Make haste slowly. )
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To: Salman
Did Israel ever get any arms from Slovenia?

When Germany hops on this bandwagon it will be significant.

Also, France and possibly the UK

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron, in a letter shared on X, assured Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that France plans to recognize a Palestinian state.

6 posted on 08/02/2025 6:10:56 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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Many of the countries in Europe are sold out (by their very own Ruling Elites) the Islamic invasion and are being adsorbed into the new Moslem- controlled caliphate (religious empire). It is so sad to have to watch the destruction of what may well have been the finest few moments in human history but , alas, savage aggression and bigotry (against Christians and Jews, and everyone else who isn’t Muslim) is the next 1,000 years


7 posted on 08/02/2025 6:14:19 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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All Jizz:

“Slovenia has become the first country in the European Union to ban all weapons trade with Israel over its war on Gaza.”

“it’s”: This is not Israel’s war. This is hamass’s war. They started it with an orgy of war crimes and they refuse to surrender.

“on”: This is not a war against gaza. It is a war against hamass.

8 posted on 08/02/2025 6:56:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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To: thegagline

Sounds like Slowvenia has gone full Muzzie Terrorist.


9 posted on 08/02/2025 7:33:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Kamala Harris would have been the next Abraham Lincoln". - Jeff "Dumber" Daniels.)
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To: thegagline
This may sound crazy...and it may even *be* crazy but I'd love to see Netanyahu hop on a plane and fly to Slovenia. Of course he'd have a diplomatic passport with him but then there's that arrest warrant.

It would surely put Europe in a pickle.

10 posted on 08/02/2025 7:35:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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“Israel has been waging a nearly 22-month war in Gaza that human rights groups and United Nations experts have compared to a genocide. “

Hamas are NOT human. Period.

Hamas is International Islamist Terrorism. They openly admit their final goal is to Destroy all Jews and all of the USA.

Still more Globalist insanity defending Hamas.

11 posted on 08/02/2025 8:19:57 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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