Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
“We stand with Israel,” Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, sufficed with this phrase in the post she published on the X website (formerly Twitter) to express solidarity and published with it a picture of the European Commission building in Brussels with a large Israeli flag on it. The post came on Sunday evening, which is the time During which work in European Union institutions in Brussels is suspended during the weekend
The European Union's foreign policy coordinator, Joseph Borrell, had issued two statements immediately after the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation, in which he condemned in the harshest terms the attack on Israel. After the occupation forces bombed Gaza for two days, no official European reaction has been issued yet condemning this bombing, and the European Union considers It is one of the largest donors to the Palestinian Authority and funds many projects for Palestinian infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank, which are usually destroyed due to Israeli military operations against the Palestinians. The European Union is also considered one of the strongest advocates of a political solution to the crisis between the two sides based on the solution of two Palestinian and Israeli states living side by side. In peace and security