Andrea Dessì, Head of IAI's Italy's Foreign Policy Programme, highlights the responsibility of the EU in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Tensions in East Jerusalem have placed Israel into the international limelight. Historically speaking, the European Community and then the European Union have always reacted with paradigm changes in their foreign policies to watershed moments in the Middle East. In response to the two Arab-Israeli wars in 1967 and 1973, the European Community actually set up its own foreign policy in the first place and initiated the Euro-Arab Dialogue.
