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

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is now banned from entering France. The sanction is largely symbolic, but it matters. Why aren’t other European Union countries sanctioning members of the Israeli government?

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is now banned from entering France. The sanction is largely symbolic, but it matters.

Why aren’t other European Union countries sanctioning members of the Israeli government?

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