Resolutions such as the one taken by the European Parliament are the kind that give the enemies of peace in the Middle East — apparently including the European Parliament — ammunition to keep fighting to achieve their goal of destroying Israel.

The European Parliament, one of three legislative branches of the European Union, has enraged many Arabs by calling for a boycott of Expo 2020 Dubai, taking place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) between October 2021 and March 2022.

The theme of this year’s Expo 2020 Dubai, one of the world’s biggest events, is “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future.” The sub-themes are “Sustainability, Opportunity and Mobility” with a focus on industries, financial capital, governance, employment, education, and technology.

The European Parliament resolution calling on the EU member states not to participate in the Dubai event, and for international companies to withdraw their sponsorship, is based on the Gulf state’s alleged human rights violations.

he timing of the resolution is problematic and implies that the European Parliament is seeking to punish the UAE for signing a peace treaty with Israel. The resolution coincided with the first anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords, the term used to refer to peace agreements between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain.

Israel is participating in Expo 2020 Dubai and visitors to the Israeli pavilion “will be invited to take an emotional ‘Journey for Tomorrow’ combining Israel’s past, present and future that aims to forge significant relationships, create new opportunities and build a better and brighter future for all.”

Shortly after the European Parliament issued its resolution against the UAE, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which calls for the elimination of Israel, condemned the Abraham Accords, dubbing them “a Zionist-American project aiming at promoting regional normalization with the Zionist entity and integrating it into the region.”

Valuable Gift to Terrorists

Like the European Parliament, Hamas has in the past called for boycotting Expo 2020 Dubai event on the pretext that such activities promote normalization between Israel and the Arab countries. More recently, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the second-largest terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, condemned the UAE for opening an embassy in Israel.

The European Parliament resolution targeting the UAE is a valuable gift from the Europeans to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and all those who oppose the Abraham Accords and any peace agreement between Israel and the Arabs.

By singling out the UAE, the European Parliament has chosen to side with the enemies of peace, cooperation and normalization between Israelis and Arabs.

Worse, the European Parliament saw no reason to call out Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad for their daily human rights violations against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The European Parliament did not call for boycotting Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad or even the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, for their terrible human rights record, including restrictions and assaults on freedom of speech and the media.

Resolutions such as the one taken by the European Parliament are the kind that give the enemies of peace in the Middle East — apparently including the European Parliament — ammunition to keep fighting to achieve their goal of destroying Israel.

The enemies of peace are not only opposed to peace and cooperation between Israel and the Arabs. They are opposed to the existence of Israel. They do not want to see Israel in the Middle East. Most of them want to replace Israel with an Islamist state. Additionally, they do not want to see any Arab, especially those living in the Gulf, make peace with Israel or host Israelis in their countries.

The European Parliament, by calling for boycotting the Dubai event, has emboldened extremist Arabs and Muslims. It has also emboldened the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which followed suit and joined the call for boycotting the Dubai event and “escalating worldwide pressure on the UAE dictatorship to end its support for Israel’s apartheid regime.”

There is no doubt that the anti-Israel movement was inspired and encouraged by the European Parliament’s resolution when it employed this scathing anti-Israel rhetoric in its call for boycotting the event.

The movement apparently sees the resolution as part of a European effort to intimidate and deter Arabs from even thinking of making peace with Israel — all under the excuse of caring for “human rights violations” in the Arab world.

Many Arabs, especially those living in the Gulf, have reacted with fury to the European Parliament resolution, highlighting the hypocrisy of the Europeans on human rights issues.