Eu Foreign Policy and Hamas: Inconsistencies and Paradoxes by Adeeb Ziadeh

Author:Adeeb Ziadeh [Ziadeh, Adeeb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781351706940
Goodreads: 36706105
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

Fundamentally, the armed Intifada, without any lawful logic, lacked acceptance by the EU, whereas the armed occupation and its devastating weaponry, accustomed to punishing the Palestinians and confiscating their lands, remained out of the question. Undoubtedly, had the equation of disarming Hamas and other armed Palestinian factions succeeded, it would have played in favour of the occupation but not of its victims; however, the latter were refused by the EU even to exercise their primitive methods of resistance under the pretext that this might destroy the peace process. Therefore, disarming the Palestinians and dismantling their resistance networks as an EU requirement, could be interpreted as a free service to the Israeli occupation, especially as the EU’s demands were not accompanied by any EU pressure that would affect the Israeli position. Whereas the EU’s subjective and prejudicial language was clear when the matter concerned the Palestinians, the EU’s implicit attitudes towards the conflict were exposed through the objective and neutral language used towards the Israelis. Notably, the remainder of the above-quoted EU statement revealed how the Israeli position had been perceived by the EU and the extent to which the EU commented on it:

The European Union would remind the parties of the pledges demanded of them … [In respect of] the Israeli Government: withdrawal of its military forces and a stop to extrajudicial executions; the lifting of closures and of all the restrictions imposed on the Palestinian people; a freeze on settlements and an end to operations directed against Palestinian infrastructures.46

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