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The Legal Fragmentation of Palestine-Israel and European Union Policies Promoting the Rule of Law

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‘What we are doing isn’t working. In fact, it’s making things worse’, wrote Ali Gharib (2013) in the Daily Beast, summarising in one sentence the open letter sent by 19 prominent Europeans to the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton in April 2013.1 Representing the European Eminent Persons Group on the Middle East Peace Process, the signers called for a reconsideration of EU funding arrangements for Palestine, stressing that the Palestinian Authority’s dependence on foreign funding risks freezing rather than promoting the peace process. The group demanded an explicit recognition of the current status of the Palestinian Territories as one of occupation, with Israel being responsible for this condition as the occupying state under international law. They further warned that Israel’s continuing control over the territories is ‘actually being entrenched by the current western policy’ (ibid.).

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Khalil, A., Del Sarto, R.A. (2015). The Legal Fragmentation of Palestine-Israel and European Union Policies Promoting the Rule of Law. In: Del Sarto, R.A. (eds) Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504142_7

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