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Listen: France and the UK sanction Israeli ministers, but the EU doesn’t

Listen: France and the UK sanction Israeli ministers, but the EU doesn’t
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Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich is now banned from entering France. These sanctions are largely symbolic, but they matter. Why aren't other European Union countries sanctioning members of the Israeli government?

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