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Can Europe re-engage to halt the catastrophe in the Middle East?
Casa Árabe and the Elcano Royal Institute are organizing this round table discussion about the war that has broken out between Israel and Iran, threatening to spread regionally, within the context of the catastrophe that has been taking place in Gaza over the past twenty months after the attack by Hamas of October 7, 2023.
The attacks by Hamas in the fall of 2023 triggered an Israeli military response on a massive scale, leading to the destruction of the Gaza Strip and killing tens of thousands of people while displacing its 2 million inhabitants, bringing the region to its knees. Although the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders and the International Court of Justice is investigating Israel for possible genocide, Israel has decided to launch a vast offensive against Iran.
The EU has been debating over its response to the Israeli onslaught against Gaza and how to stop the large-scale bloodshed and humanitarian catastrophe. It recently decided to launch a review of the Association Agreement with Israel, but the UN Conference that was to be held in New York from June 17 to 20, aimed at ramping up global efforts to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been cancelled. The European Union again appears to be divided over the response to the war which Israel has initiated against Iran.
The debate will be based on the ideas suggested in the article “Four Ways in Which Europe can Re-engage to Stop the Gaza Catastrophe,” recently published by the Elcano Royal Institute.
Hosted at Casa Árabe in Madrid, the event will bring together well-known speakers and thinkers, including Josep Borrell, a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute and former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and the Vice-President of the European Commission from 2019 through 2024; Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff, a former EU representative in Palestine; Martin Konecny, Director of the European Project for the Middle East; Munir Nuseibah, a Palestinian human rights attorney and scholar, presented by Noor Alqaoud Jato, from the Association of the Spanish-Palestinian Community of Jerusalem; and Sonia Boulos, a professor of International Human Rights Law at Antonio de Nebrija University. Each of them will be exploring the urgent role which Europe can and must play in the response to the crisis.
The event will begin with words of welcome given by Miguel Moro Aguilar, the General Director of Casa Árabe, and Charles Powell, Director of the Elcano Royal Institute, with the goal of critically assessing policy options and promoting meaningful engagement rooted in human rights and international law.
The event is available on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
Photo: Jaber Jehad Badwan (Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0).
Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/can-europe-re-engage-to-halt-the-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east
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By Casa ÁrabeCasa Árabe and the Elcano Royal Institute are organizing this round table discussion about the war that has broken out between Israel and Iran, threatening to spread regionally, within the context of the catastrophe that has been taking place in Gaza over the past twenty months after the attack by Hamas of October 7, 2023.
The attacks by Hamas in the fall of 2023 triggered an Israeli military response on a massive scale, leading to the destruction of the Gaza Strip and killing tens of thousands of people while displacing its 2 million inhabitants, bringing the region to its knees. Although the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli leaders and the International Court of Justice is investigating Israel for possible genocide, Israel has decided to launch a vast offensive against Iran.
The EU has been debating over its response to the Israeli onslaught against Gaza and how to stop the large-scale bloodshed and humanitarian catastrophe. It recently decided to launch a review of the Association Agreement with Israel, but the UN Conference that was to be held in New York from June 17 to 20, aimed at ramping up global efforts to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been cancelled. The European Union again appears to be divided over the response to the war which Israel has initiated against Iran.
The debate will be based on the ideas suggested in the article “Four Ways in Which Europe can Re-engage to Stop the Gaza Catastrophe,” recently published by the Elcano Royal Institute.
Hosted at Casa Árabe in Madrid, the event will bring together well-known speakers and thinkers, including Josep Borrell, a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute and former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and the Vice-President of the European Commission from 2019 through 2024; Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff, a former EU representative in Palestine; Martin Konecny, Director of the European Project for the Middle East; Munir Nuseibah, a Palestinian human rights attorney and scholar, presented by Noor Alqaoud Jato, from the Association of the Spanish-Palestinian Community of Jerusalem; and Sonia Boulos, a professor of International Human Rights Law at Antonio de Nebrija University. Each of them will be exploring the urgent role which Europe can and must play in the response to the crisis.
The event will begin with words of welcome given by Miguel Moro Aguilar, the General Director of Casa Árabe, and Charles Powell, Director of the Elcano Royal Institute, with the goal of critically assessing policy options and promoting meaningful engagement rooted in human rights and international law.
The event is available on Casa Árabe’s YouTube channel.
Photo: Jaber Jehad Badwan (Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0).
Further information: https://en.casaarabe.es/eventos-arabes/show/can-europe-re-engage-to-halt-the-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east