Europe's alliance with Israel : aiding the occupation / David Cronin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cronin, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993-.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israel--Foreign relations--European Union countries.

Israel.

European Union countries--Foreign relations--Israel.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Building the unholy alliance

Bowing to the United States

Aiding the occupation

The misappliance of science

Profiting from Palestine's pain

The Israel lobby comes to Europe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-189) and index.

ISBN:

9781783714247

1783714247

9781849645553

1849645558

OCLC:

929138725