Will Spain's pro-Palestine stance shift EU policy on Israel?

“Spain is seen as the radical country, the one acting in a radical way, but if we go back to what the European Union theoretically has in place for such obvious violations of international law and human rights, basically what Spain is doing should be the minimum that all EU member states should be doing,” Moussa Bourekba, a research fellow at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, told The New Arab. “I think that what is happening, both at the level of the European Union and with this new wave of states recognising Palestine, is basically that Israel’s official narrative of a war of self-defence and a war against Hamas is no longer sustainable. It no longer holds up in any way,” added Bourekba, from the Barcelona Centre of International Affairs. “In this context, Europeans are essentially looking for a way to wash their hands so that, the day they are judged by public opinion and by history, it looks like they did something,” he says. “I don’t think political leaders are stupid. They look at polls, they follow public opinion, and they can see that public opinion has been shifting,” he adds.