ABSTRACT
European involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has taken various forms over the last hundred years. Certainly the origins of the conflict cannot be understood without reference to racism, nationalism and war in Europe. The political contours of the whole Middle East region were determined by British and French imperial machinations between the 1920s and the 1950s. During the Cold War the superpowers became more instrumental, but when they took opposite sides in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war the Europeans adopted a range of positions somewhere in between.
