“We are giving the report by Human Rights Watch due attention,” Stano asserted.
There then followed a lengthy recitation of the EU’s supposed commitment to human rights, international law and to “a negotiated two-state solution”.
In pursuit of this ever-receding mirage, Stano concluded that “the EU will engage with both Israel and the Palestinians, and with our international and regional partners to this end.”
That sounds suspiciously like the “
constructive engagement” that US President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher advocated in the 1980s in an effort to stave off international pressure and sanctions on South Africa’s white supremacist apartheid regime.