by Manfred Gerstenfeld, from European-Israeli Relations: Between Confusion and Change, 2006 Austria doesn’t play a leading role in the European Union nor, as far as I’m concerned, should it. The country’s overall attitude can be characterized as ‘going with the … [Read More]
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by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. On 1 May 2004, ten new countries were admitted into the European Union. Eight of these were Central and East European: the four Visegrad countries, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia; … [Read More]
Published in Israeli-European Relations: Between Confusion and Change, 2006. Ambassador Dr. Robbie Sabel is a former legal adviser to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. He now teaches international law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and the Interdisciplinary … [Read More]
Published in European-Israeli Relations: Between Confusion and Change, 2006. “The European Union is Israel’s largest trading partner even if trade with the United States is growing rapidly and exports to it equal those to the EU. The EU is Israel’s … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. “When Prime Minister Ehud Barak told me that I was going to be appointed Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, I felt he had given me a very challenging job. I have … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. Andrei Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is currently writing a book on anti-Americanism. Markovits … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. “In the past decades Europe has tried hard to impact Arab-Israeli peace negotiations and diplomatic processes in the Middle East. One has to ask oneself why it has been unable to make a … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld . From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. The first Israeli ambassador to Mauritania, Freddy Eytan, was stationed in Paris in the 1970’s as an Israeli diplomat and in the 1980’s as a journalist. He has observed French Middle … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. Retired Israeli diplomat Avi Pazner says that the best way to gain clear insight into European-Israeli relations is by looking at watershed events over the past six decades. Pazner, a former ambassador … [Read More]
by Manfred Gerstenfeld. From Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss, 2005. Jeffrey Gedmin, an American, is director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin. In his view, four factors play a role in Europe’s increasingly anti-Israeli sentiment: Europe’s attempt to assuage guilt over … [Read More]