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]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/0deae2465067483ab8f4c3d5fbec74a1_18.jpeg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Dimitris Bouris is assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and the author of The European Union and ... Occupied Palestinian Territories: state-building without a state (Routledge, 2014).
European diplomacy should forge an international consensus that encourages legal frameworks over the use of force.