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The accession of Israel to the European Union has been supported by several prominent Israeli politicians, such as former Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Simon Peres.[1] Silvan Shalom Silvan Shalom â–¶(?) (Hebrew סילבן שלו×) (born 1958) is an Israeli politician and current Foreign Minister of Israel, having been appointed in 2003 by the current Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. ...
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Currently, the EU-Israel Association Agreement forms the legal basis governing relations between Israel and the EU, modelled on the network of Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Agreements between the Union and its partners in the southern flank of the Mediterranean Sea.[2]
A poll conducted by the Dahaf Institute of the EC Delegation in Tel Aviv in 2004 revealed that 85% of Israelis would back an application for EU membership.[3]
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the EU in July 2003, likewise indicated an interest in an expanded EU that would include Israel. (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. ...
Marco Pannella, a member of the European Parliament and leader of the Nonviolent Radical Party, has supported the idea since 1988. In an appeal published on several Israeli newspapers, the Radical Party explained the initiative as follow: Giacinto Pannella, aka Marco (Teramo May 2, 1930 from an Italian father and a Swiss mother) is an Italian politician. ...
The European Parliament building in Strasbourg The inside of the building The European Parliament (formerly European Parliamentary Assembly) is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ...
The Transnational Radical Party (former Partito Radicale, not to be confused with the Radicali Italiani liberal party founded in 2001) is a political association of citizens, parliamentarians and members of government of various national and political backgrounds who intend to use nonviolent means to create an effective body of international...
Israel's defense and security, integrated with defense policies the United States of Europe could adopt and are currently adopting, could be shared by three hundred million people. Peace for Israel could be negotiated in this context - exclusively within this context -providing a strategy for the withdrawal of her occupying forces. [4] The campaign has gained some support both in Israel and in Europe.[5]. After the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, he has launched an international manifesto asking for the entry of Israel in the Eu so that "the terrorist and military attack on Israel would be deprived of the strength of its most real reasons and its confessed goals". Combatants Hezbollah Israel Commanders Hassan Nasrallah (Secretary General) Dan Halutz (CoS), Moshe Kaplinsky[5], Udi Adam (Regional) Strength 600-1,000 fighters 3,000-5,000 available 10,000 reservist [2] 30,000 ground troops (plus IAF & ISC) [6] Casualties Hezbollah militia: 74 dead confirmed by Hezbollah [3] 180 dead...
Several scholars has also supported the idea. Leon Hadar, research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, stated that "Conditioning Israel's entry into the EU on its agreement to withdraw from the occupied territories and dismantle the Jewish settlements there, would strengthen the hands of those Israelis who envision their state not as a militarized Jewish ghetto but as a Westernized liberal community. The tragic fate of the European Jewry served as the driving force for the creation of Israel, and welcoming the Jewish state into the European community makes historical and moral sense."[6]
For Michael Shtender-Auerbach, public affairs officer at The Century Foundation, "As an EU member at peace with its neighbors, Israel would bolster Europe's status as a world leader and international power broker. This would also provide Israelis with the security and membership in a community of nations that accept and protect them and to give the Palestinians their best hope for statehood in the long battle for sovereignty".[7]
Other reasons in support of a stronger relationship between Europe and Israel have been given by Hildegard Müller, Chairwoman of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group of the German Bundestag, in her speech during her visit to Jerusalem in june 2004:
Today, six per cent of more than six million Israelis already hold a passport from an EU country. Another 14 per cent, or 700,000 people, are entitled to apply for one because they or their parents come from an EU Member State. (...) Europe must recognise – if it genuinely wants peace in the Middle East – that it needs to offer security. Only if Israel's security is guaranteed can new trust be created. There is scarcely a single other state in the world that, like Israel, is not a member of a regional alliance.[8]
External links
Notes and references - ^ Analysis: Israel Weighing EU Membership. Retrieved on May 21, 2003.
- ^ The Eu's relations with Israel. Retrieved on September 1, 2006.
- ^ Nathalie Tocci. Comparing the Role of the EU in the Turkish-Kurdish and Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts. Retrieved on March, 2005.
- ^ Jerusalme post ad (October 18, 1988).
- ^ Shalom considers asking to join the EU. Retrieved on May 21, 2003.
- ^ Leon Hadar. Iraq and Israel in the EU: Peace through Accession?. Retrieved on August 31, 2006.
- ^ Michael Shtender-Auerbach. Israel and the EU: A Path to Peace. Retrieved on August 31, 2006.
- ^ Hildegard Müller. The case for a privileged partnership between the EU and Israel. Retrieved on August 31, 2006.
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