European diplomacy should forge an international consensus that encourages legal frameworks over the use of force.
![A Palestinian man sits on a tracks of an Israeli excavator as he tries to prevent it from clearing his land during a protest against Jewish settlements, near the West Bank city of Ramallah [REUTERS]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/0deae2465067483ab8f4c3d5fbec74a1_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Dimitris Bouris is author of The European Union and Occupied Palestinian Territories: state-building without a state.
European diplomacy should forge an international consensus that encourages legal frameworks over the use of force.
![A Palestinian man sits on a tracks of an Israeli excavator as he tries to prevent it from clearing his land during a protest against Jewish settlements, near the West Bank city of Ramallah [REUTERS]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/0deae2465067483ab8f4c3d5fbec74a1_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)