The EU must take risks in the Middle-East

In parallel to its action towards Israel, the EU should clearly inform the Palestinian authorities that any support, active or passive, to terrorist acts, will result in sanctions equivalent to those enforced against the Hebrew state (in the event, for Palestinian leaders, restricted move within the EU, aid reduction…). And so much for certain capitals and lobbies yelling their injustice!
The EU must enforce a policy where both parties are taken as a whole. It must not favour one party over another. It must strive to solve a problem, rather than measure the value of this or that player.

To be efficient, this approach must altogether establish a complete parallel between both Israeli and Palestinian parties, and at the same time establish a radical difference among them when it comes to policy implementation, in order to avoid the « it’s not me, it’s him » rhetoric that has paralysed all evolution in the region in the past years. By any means, this EU policy should avoid being hostaged by one side or another, it is a long-term policy, a one-generation at least strategy, enforceable for at least twenty years (a minimum length of time in order to induce sustainable positive changes).

For this reason, the above-described policy - that I will personally advise Newropeans to adopt in the forthcoming debates about the EU’s future foreign policy - needs a third constructive part, one common to both Israelis and Palestinians, directed towards their youth. This part will not seek to give lessons to the youth of both sides; it will simply associate them to the work of invention conducted by the European youth, via university exchanges, via political and associative networking,…, to build each day the tools and methods that turn diversity into an asset and difference into an opportunity. Just by being associated to this work, young Palestinians and young Israelis can find the elements they need in order to start solving their common problems… which they only are likely to solve one day.