“Europe is the biggest supporter of the Palestinian people,” EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee yesterday.  However, while there have been shifts in individual European countries’ stances as regards Israel, mostly as a result of the economic ramifications of the US-Israeli attacks against Iran, Kallas cannot claim that Europe is the biggest supporter of the Palestinian people. On being the biggest backer of the Palestinian Authority, Kallas may be right.

Since October 2023, Europe did its utmost to protect Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It made a mockery out of its own rhetoric of suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which would not have stopped the genocide. but rather provided the EU with a symbolic move for its press releases. It ridiculed the importance of humanitarian aid delivery and necessity by making dialogue with Israel more important than alleviating starvation.

The EU also remained tethered to the two-state paradigm even as Israel explicitly called for implementing........

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