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The European Union’s involvement with Israel and the Palestinian Territories is extensive and multi-layered. With Israel, it maintains excellent relations in the fields of economics, research and development, and culture. At the same time, the EU and its member states are the largest donors to the Palestinian people while also supporting Palestinian state-building. However, whereas Brussels has not succeeded in transforming its substantial financial involvement in the region into a significant political role, EU policies towards Israel and the Palestinians have largely remained disconnected from each other. In this vein, Brussels has constantly been criticising Israel’s settlement project, recurrently in harsh tones. Yet, notwithstanding a temporary slowdown in 2009 following Israel’s war on Hamas-ruled Gaza, EU-Israeli economic relations have steadily been improving.1 More generally, the EU’s bilateral policies towards Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) tend to paper over the complex relationship of governance and control that link the Palestinian Territories to Israel. This state of affairs is well reflected in the literature, where analyses of EU involvement with Israel and the territories are rare.2
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Del Sarto, R.A. (2015). Visa Regimes and the Movement of People across the EU and Israel-Palestine. 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_3
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