The thing of trade is that it goes both ways, and no, we don’t have easy replacement for many pharmaceutical products from Israel. Also, having zero leverage over Hamas (despite millions wasted in Gaza) doesn’t help any possible leverage over Israel. Peace, like trade, needs 2 to tango.

That’s so true!

Unfortunately I have to say Hamas. As the biggest contributer to Garza’s basic infrastructure, the EU releases Hamas from that responsibility and they use all their cash in terrorism instead.

There’s no free EU money to Israel, there’s trade, it’s an exchange, buying and selling.

It’s the same story all over Europe. Portugal still has Multibanco, but as far as I know no one issues a exclusively Multibanco card anymore. My first bank cards were all just Multibanco.

MBway (out digital payments) works great, but I guess in 90% of cases it’s associated to a Visa card…

No strategic vision and always that difficulty to cross borders and make alliances with neighbors.

I’m really hopefully that Wero and the Europa alliance will change that.

“I even have friends”, right. You sound very much like a nazi though, over and out

Israel is a multicultural state with a far right government now, just like the US or Italy. If you don’t know the reality of Israel stop spreading ignorant hate online against it. You sound like a nazi obsessed with Jews.

Bringing up Zionism on a discussion about payment solutions in the European Union shows an unhealthy obsession with the topic… so yeah, bringing this kind of topic into this discussion is an assured sign of someone obsessing with the Jews… Get real man.

Your ideology seems to be the destruction of the only country with a Jewish majority, but sure, it’s not antisemitic, you just hate this one country by chance, from the several countries at war with weaker enemies just happened to fall on this one, that you want erased.

But I’m authentically blocking yours

The massacre, kidnapping and raping of civilians is not an uprising. Calling it that is justifying it and justifying violence is always self defeating. People like you are part of the problem.

Could you say the same thing minus the antissemitism? Of course, but wouldn’t be the same, would it?

I guess Europe’s leverage is over the Arab territories, as the main sponsor of all infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank. The leverage over Israel is minimal as relations are only getting worse. But do we really have any leverage over Hamas? The same Hamas who executed dozens of Europeans on the October 7th? I doubt it, millions of euros in subsidies and zero diplomatic gains, the infrastructure is also ruble.

My dear, if you read my comment you would know I don’t deny that Jews who survived the Holocaust in Europe were Westerners. They simply don’t make up the majority of the population in Israel. Most Israelis are middle eastern of Middle eastern descent, even if you count the descendants of the European migrants as western… which is a bit silly since they’re born and raised in Israel for a few generations in the meantime.

So yeah, it’s quite ignorant and quite racist to suggest that Israel is run by western migrants.

Ah the Western immigrants! Of course, slowly bit by bit the hate against the Jews always ends up showing up…

Quick history refreshers:

1. there were always Jews in Palestine (historically just a synonym of Israel), there were even Jews there before there were any Arabs!

2. more Israelis descend from Jews expelled from Arab countries after the WWII (a genocide we tend to forget) than from Jews who survived genocide in Europe, so yeah, most Israelis are and always have been Middle eastern.

3. 20% of Israelis are even Arab, surprise. It’s a multicultural state.

PS: but should we fear Middle eastern migrants becoming too influential in our politics, then? Or migrants in general?

No worries, I was just lazy to put that quote on my text to make it more obvious.

Oh I forgot the part where we or the EU cared about the genocide going on in Sudan and all the sanctions we applied to the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) for being its main sponsor. I must have been distracted.

Same for the sanctions against Azerbaijan for the effective genocide that whipped up the Christian population of Nagorno Karabakh in less than 72 hours. I just probably missed that news. /s

If anything Europe should petition the Arab territories to admit defeat and move on, the Israeli-Arab wars are going on for too long always with the same result.

But maybe, just maybe, we’re simply not prepared to let Jews win a war… :/

Wero is private, it belongs to the EPI company. But they also have an agreement with the alliance of other payment solutions to make it all interoperable by 2027.

That’s what the Danish nazis are saying as an argument to not fear ridicule, I just pointed out that it wasn’t just at the beginning.

Israel/Palestine is such a distraction for Western politics. Loads of wars and territorial changes in the world, including in Europe (Nagorno Karabakh, Ukraine before 2022) and no one bats an eye.

But anything in this old conflict, that Israel wins military each time, and we’re all up in arms as if it’s essential to our continent.

Spoiler: it’s not and we’re being played by foreign agents and stalinists. Enough. Our focus should be Ukraine, that’s our war.

Hitler and Mussolini were also ridiculed in the end. People should read the entire biographies.