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CIAO DATE: 05/04
The European Union and the crisis in the Middle East
Martin Ortega
July 2003
Post-11 September, terrorism has further complicated the already confused equation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Granted, it is difficult to talk of direct links between a suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, hostage-taking in a Moscow theatre and the terrible attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, like the Chechen question, cannot be seen as simply an aspect of the al-Qaeda phenomenon...