Guestlecture: The EU and Palestine- Complicity, Silence and Double Standards

This set of vocabulary flashcards summarizes the key historical agreements, EU diplomatic declarations, state-building initiatives, and human rights observations regarding the relationship between the EU, Israel, and Palestine as detailed in the lecture transcript.

Eurocentrism

The sensibility that Europe is historically, economically, culturally, and politically distinctive in ways which significantly determine the overall character of world politics (Sabaratnam: $2013$).

Orientalism

A conscious strategy or method described by Said ($1978$) through which the "Orient" is socially constructed, produced, and reproduced.

Sykes-Picot Agreement

A $1916$ agreement that divided regions including Gaza, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Baghdad into zones of direct control or influence between the British and French.

Venice Declaration

A $1980$ declaration that introduced the idea of a homeland for the Palestinians and called for the recognition of their legitimate rights.

Berlin Declaration

A $1999$ statement indicating the EU's readiness to recognize a Palestinian state when appropriate.

Seville Declaration-Roadmap

A $2002$ initiative establishing the goal of a Palestinian State on the basis of $1967$ borders.

Paris Protocol

An agreement that integrated the Palestinian Economy into the Israeli one through a customs union, giving Israel control over all borders and the tax transfer system.

Matrix of control

A situation where the Palestinian Authority ($PA$) relies on foreign aid for one third of its budget and gets the other two-thirds from revenues collected by Israel.

Fayyad Plan

A $2009$ state-building plan that aimed to create positive facts on the ground and build international community support for Palestinian state recognition.

2013 Guidelines

EU rules stating that only Israeli entities established within Israel's pre-$1967$ borders are eligible for EU funding, excluding the Golan Heights, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

Special Privileged Partnership

An unprecedented package of political, economic, and security support offered by the Council of the EU in $2013$ to both parties in the event of a final status agreement.

Interpretative Notice November 2015

An EU notice regarding the labelling and indication of origin of goods originating from the territories occupied by Israel since June $1967$.

French Peace Initiative

A $June\,2016$ proposal based on deadlines and stages for a two-state solution, anchored in international diplomacy with an implicit threat of a Security Council resolution.

Nakba

The name for the initial displacement of Palestinians in $1948$; a term also used by Ariel Kallner in $2023$ to describe a goal for Gaza that would "overshadow the Nakba of $'48$."

Great Return March

A two-year community protest ($March\,2018$ to $December\,2019$) against the blockade where Israeli forces killed $214$ protesters, including $46$ children.

WCNSF

A medical acronym used by doctors in Gaza meaning "wounded child no surviving family."

Jerusalem Outline Plan 2000

A plan that set a goal of maintaining a solid Jewish majority in the city with a target demographic ratio of $60\%$ Jewish to $40\%$ Palestinian.

Article 2 of the Association Agreement (AA)

The "human rights" clause of the EU-Israel agreement; the EU conducted three formal reviews concluding there were indications Israel was in breach of these obligations.