Despite rhetorically opposing Israeli annexation and the US “Deal of the Century,” the EU influences the colonization process through its diplomatic ties and agreements with Israel.

The torture suffered by Palestinian prisoner Samer Arabeed at the hands of Israel’s Shin Bet interrogators has proved, once again, that the prohibition of such treatment as enshrined in the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Rome Statute and the UN Convention Against Torture is little more than a series of reference points used by human rights groups as reminders to the torturers.