Europe’s stance on Palestine, although currently slightly shifting, remains “below the level required,”  Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said in a recent interview with Anadolu. “What is needed now are practical decisions, not more statements,” Shahin added while noting that several European countries are speaking more clearly on Israel’s military occupation and settlement expansion.

Undoubtedly, Europe can do much more. However, the Palestinian Authority is in the same collaborationist predicament – statements of condemnation but no action, unless action is directed against the Palestinian resistance. The middle ground created by colonialism, which is where the PA and Europe are stagnated, needs to be significantly altered before practical decisions are taken. 

Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the PA’s concerns were limited to its own illusions of power. While Palestinians in Gaza faced Israel’s bombing, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank faced the violence of security coordination – the PA’s sacred agreement with Israel. The only illusion of leverage the PA has is........

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