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A Human Rights Review of the EU and Israel 2004-2005
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Mainstreaming or Selectively Extinguishing Human Rights? (by Susan Rockwell/Charles Shamas, 2006)
The report is the second EMHRN annual assessment of EU compliance with its own human rights commitments in its relations to Israel. It examines EU and Member State positions and responses to Israeli violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel.
Just as its predecessor, the second Review (2004-05) presents several instances where Israel implements its agreements with the EU, based on its rejection of its key international obligations as an occupying power, and as a state of all its citizens. The EU can not knowingly allow its contractual relations with any third country to operate in this manner without itself violating EU law and international humanitarian law. The EMHRN therefore presents a number of recommendations to this end. Behind the report is a coalition of Palestinian, Israeli, Arab and European NGOs. |
