Can Britain enforce its planned ban on trade with Israeli settlements?

LONDON: UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband last week fired the starting gun on efforts to end British trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The government plans to introduce legislation within six to nine months. The question now is whether Britain’s existing customs and sanctions infrastructure is equipped to distinguish and block such trade. “In a word, no,” one customs expert told Arab News, pointing to the difficulties Britain faced after leaving the EU. “Obviously, the sca