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The building and systematic destroying of Palestine
Israel must not be able to get away with destroying EU-funded projects in Palestine. You reported that the European Commission has made public the es... Read more
April 13, 2012
CEPR Opinion: The Land of their Forefathers
Using their archaelogical expertise, the French help the Palestinians trace their roots.Preserving one's patrimony is a way of maintaining one's cultu... Read more
April 10, 2012
What happened to the state-building project in Palestine?
The World Bank report "Stagnation or Revival?" (March 21, 2012) draws a bleak picture of Palestinian state-building projects and reveals the real prob... Read more
March 21, 2012
CEPR Opinion: Israel and Perpetual War
Sporadic violence in Gaza is a way for Israel to test its latest military gadgets. As depicted last week in a very real way, Gaza is a large petri dis... Read more
March 19, 2012
Time for Action in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Dr Arafat Shoukri, Director of the Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR)In the last weeks, numerous reports have come to light regarding I... Read more
March 14, 2012
Israel, democracy and the Arabs
The prolongation of the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about the illegal occupation, expropriation, colonisation, and annexation of Arab territory by Is... Read more
March 01, 2012
It's high time for Europe to engage with Hamas
Six years have passed since the EU decided to boycott the Hamas-led government which was democratically elected in the last Palestinian Legislative Co... Read more
February 27, 2012
CEPR Opinion: Europe awakens to Palestinian realities
The figures say it all. 1,200 Jewish settlers occupied outposts in the West Bank in 1972; in 2012 over 300,000 live in fortress-like settlements on hi... Read more
January 26, 2012
Israel still occupies and isolates Gaza
Three years ago, Israel was carrying out Operation Cast Lead that took the lives of over 1.500 Palestinians in Gaza. The official reason for the Israe... Read more
January 19, 2012
Why Europe needs to engage in Gaza
Europe was enthusiastic about engaging in Gaza when Israel disengaged from the Strip in 2005. That was a time of celebration for the Gazans who had fo... Read more
December 20, 2011
EU-Gaza mission on the beach
Gaza is really very close to Europe, geographically. The Europeans were there for a very brief period of our contemporary history to help monitor the ... Read more
December 16, 2011
Opinion: Palestinian Paradigm Shift
Despite the eruption of turmoil in the center of Cairo, the Palestinian factions met in the Egyptian capital on Thursday, November 24, to advance ... Read more
November 29, 2011
Palestinian solar plant threatened by Israel
With international attention focusing on the Palestinian UN bid, the prisoner swap and the absurd US response to UNESCO accepting Palestine, a much sm... Read more
November 14, 2011
Opinion: Israel as security state forever?
If you want to learn how to spin a good yarn, if you want to flip an argument completely on its head and make everyone else also spin on their heads t... Read more
September 20, 2011
Opinion: Violence is not the answer for the Palestinians
In more ways than one, 9/11 revealed to the world that recurrent acts of militancy could damage chances of creating a place called Palestine. The... Read more
September 12, 2011
Opinion: Children in Palestine need our support to end suffering
AS Parliament is now in summer recess, I took the opportunity to join a delegation of politicians, led by the Council for European Palestinian Relat... Read more
August 17, 2011
Opinion: Diplomacy goes for naught with Israelis
The Palestinians have been standing in line for decades, waiting to join the global family of nations, waiting for international recognition, wait... Read more
July 11, 2011
Opinion: Sabotage is name of Israel's game
There is no lack of creativity, viciousness and connivance, in Israeli and European attempts to dissuade and discourage the “Freedom Flotilla II” from... Read more
July 04, 2011
"United Palestine offers best chance for peace" by Keith Taylor MEP
The recent news of reconciliation between the two Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, after a 4 year impasse will come as a great encouragement to ... Read more
June 21, 2011
"Put the Palestinian house in order" by Helmut Scholz MEP
In the Arab region, we have been seeing exactly the same familiar images for years, always telling the same old story: there are no solutions here, ev... Read more
May 19, 2011
Change in Egypt
The CEPR welcomes recent changes in Egypt / February 2011 The Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) welcomes recent events... Read more
February 15, 2011
"The EU position on settlements is clear: they are illegal under international law and an obstacle to peace."
Catherine Ashton - EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
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