Europe's Alliance with Israel

Name: Europe's Alliance with Israel
Author: David Cronin

Aiding the Occupation

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Paperback, 208 blz. | Engels

Pluto Press | 1e druk, 2010

ISBN13: 9780745330655

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Hoofdrubriek : Geschiedenis|Mens en maatschappij

Pluto Press 1e druk, 2010 9780745330655

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In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU's 27 governments have been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories. Journalist David Cronin interrogates the relationship and its outcomes.

A recent agreement for 'more intense, more fruitful, more influential co-operation' between the EU and Israel has meant that Israel has become a member state of the Union in all but name. Cronin shows that rather than using this relationship to encourage Israeli restraint, the EU has legitimised actions such as the ill-treatment of prisoners and the Gaza invasion. Concluding his revealing and shocking account, Cronin calls for a continuation and deepening of international activism and protest to halt the EU's slide into complicity.