ABSTRACT
The ongoing Palestinian war against Israel (also known as the ‘Al Aqsa intifada’) has shown the European Union (EU or Community) to be Yasser Arafat’s and the Palestine Authority’s (PA) most steadfast international ally. Indeed, since the outbreak of hostilities in September 2000, following the breakdown of negotiations between the parties at Camp David, Israel has faced criticism from the EU partners on a number of interrelated issues. This has ranged from public condemnation of Israel’s destruction of EU-funded infrastructural projects in the Occupied Territories to the far more serious allegation over what Commission President Romano Prodi termed Israel’s ‘utterly intolerable treatment of the Palestinian people.’1
