European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell suggested yesterday that if President Joe Biden really thinks that Israel’s response to the Hamas Oct. 7 attack is “over the top,” as he reportedly said last week, then he should stop the flow of weapons to Israel. “But let’s be logical: how many times have you heard the most prominent leaders and the foreign ministers around the world saying, ‘Too many people are being killed’? … Well, if you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people [from] being killed. Isn’t it logical?” he asked the media. “Well, if you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed,” Borrell told reporters after the informal meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, “How many is too many? … So, if the international community believes that this is a slaughter, that too many people are being killed, maybe they have to think about the provision of arms,” he went on, and cited the Netherlands court telling Amsterdam to cease selling F-35 spare parts to Israel “in order to be sure that the International Court of Justice’s rule is being implemented.”
Borrell then lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, detailing that “In 2006, during the war against Lebanon, the United States … already took the decision to pause the supply of arms to Israel, because Israel did not want to stop the war. Exactly the same thing that happens today. Everyone goes to Tel Aviv, begging: ‘Please, do not do that, protect civilians, do not kill so many.’
