随着以色列针对巴勒斯坦人的行动引发公众愤怒，欧盟内部仍因长期存在的分歧而陷入僵局。
英国政府宣布对与以色列非法定居点的贸易实施严厉制裁，并谴责由国家支持的“定居者恐怖分子”在约旦河西岸实施“种族清洗”。
While Israel’s actions against Palestinians intensify public anger, the bloc remains paralysed along familiar fault lines When the British government announced sweeping sanctions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements and condemned “ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank by state-backed “settler terrorists”, some EU diplomats hoped this dramatic shift in UK government policy towards Israel would have a galvanising effect on the rest of Europe.
一些欧盟外交官原本期望这一政策转变能带动欧洲其他国家采取类似行动。然而，目前尚未出现这样的效果。
So far, it has not.
尽管法国和加拿大也追随英国，承诺禁止来自非法定居点的商品并制裁“协助或从中牟利者”，但这一举措尚未引发更广泛的连锁反应。
Although France and Canada joined the UK in pledging to ban goods from illegal settlements and impose sanctions on “those who facilitate them or profit from them”, there has not yet been a wider ripple effect.
