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Samaria. Disengagement from the Gaza Strip was completed
on September 12, 2005.
The Action Plan with Israel was concluded on December
13, 2004. It allows the possibility for Israel to participate progressively
in key aspects of EU policies and programs, to upgrade
the scope and intensity of political cooperation, to encourage
Israeli legislation as a means to open the EU internal
market to Israel, and to achieve greater liberalization of trade,
services, and agriculture. The Action Plan identifies, inter alia,
as priorities cooperation in the Middle East conflict and other
areas, counter-terrorism, non-proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction, human rights, improved dialogue between
cultures and religions, migration issues, the fight against organized
crime and human trafficking and police and judicial
cooperation, transport, energy, environment, science and
technology, and people-to-people contacts.
On September 15, 2005, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan
Shalom met in New York with Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the
European Commissioner for External Relations and European
Neighborhood Policy. She said:
I have also reiterated to Minister Shalom that disengagement
has to bring tangible and immediate improvement to the lives
of ordinary Palestinians. It has to offer hope to both sides.
We are working closely with James Wolfensohn, the Quartet
Special Envoy, on ways to revitalize the Palestinian economy.
We have offered our help and support to resolve crucial issues
such as border crossing, customs and links between West
Bank and Gaza.
The Israeli authorities have been very satisfied with the new
Action Plan, which extends cooperation to new fields. But it is
doubtful that the Israelis really understand that this increased
cooperation has a price: to accept the involvement of the EU
in the peace process with the Palestinians. Vice Prime Minister
Shimon Peres said that eventually a larger Europe will
incorporate the Middle East. Then, Israel will certainly ask to
be included in the economic network of Europe.
Main Agreements between Israel and the EEC
4 June 1964 Commercial Agreement
29 June 1970 (Preferential) Agreement
11 May 1975 Agreement (Industrial Free Trade Area); Kitvei
Amana, n. 882.
8 February 1977 Additional Protocol to the Agreement (on
Scientific Cooperation); Kitvei Amana, n. 924.
18 March 1981 Second Additional Protocol to the Agreement
(relating to Greece); Kitvei Amana, n. 965.
24 June 1983 Second Financial Protocol, Kitvei Amana, n.
966.
18 December 1984 Third Additional Protocol to the Agreement,
Kitvei Amana, n. 986.
15 December 1987 Fourth Additional Agreement to the Agreement
(relating to Portugal and Spain), Official Journal of
the European Communities, L 327 of 30.11.1988.
15 December 1987 Third Financial Protocol, Ibidem.
20 November 1995 Signature of the Association Agreement
1 June 2000 The Association Agreement entered into force
8 March 1999 Agreement for Scientific and Technical Co-operation
between the EC and Israel, entered into force
16 December 2002 Israel associated to the 6th Framework
Programme
13 December 2004 Action Plan with Israel concluded
[Sergio I. Minerbi (2nd ed.)]
°EUSEBIUS PAMPHILI (c. 260–339 C.E.), Church Father
and archbishop of Caesarea. Eusebius was born in Caesarea
Maritima, where he was a pupil of the priest Pamphilus
(c. 240–309), who had studied with Origen. Eusebius was
appointed bishop in c. 313. He was associated with imperial
court circles and was a devoted admirer of the emperor *Constantine.
A scholar in a wide range of fields, Eusebius was a
prolific writer on exegesis, history, apologetics, and dogmatics.
Especially important is his Chronicle, a summary of world
history based partly on the Bible. Historia Ecclesiastica is a
study of Church history in ten volumes (completed in 324)
up to the time of the victory of Christianity under Constantine.
Important for Church history is his small work on the
Christian martyrs of Palestine. He also wrote a biography of
Constantine, a panegyric to the emperor who built the first
churches in Palestine (notably those at Bethlehem and at Golgotha
in Jerusalem).
Eusebius’ theological position is reflected in his two
great works:
(1) Praeparatio Evangelica (“Preparation for Christianity”),
in which he proves the Greek views on religion to be
baseless, Judaism alone providing the proper foundation for
the establishment of religion;
(2) Demonstratio Evangelica (“Proof of the Truth of
Christianity”), in which he severely criticizes Judaism for
failing to perceive that the revelation of God in the Bible was
merely a prelude to “the glad tidings [the gospel] of the kingdom
of God” and that only in the New Testament do these
“glad tidings” appear.
The Onomasticon of Eusebius, written between 313 and
early 325, contains more than 1,000 place-names mentioned
in the Bible and gospels which he arranged alphabetically by
books of the Bible, following the Septuagint spelling of the
names. The primary aim was for it to be used as a sourcebook
to facilitate the reading of the Old Testament with the topography
of the Holy Land as its backdrop. At the time of Eusebius,
the proper veneration of the places associated with Jesus
had still not been fully established and so he would not have
deemed it necessary to list such sites in his Onomasticon. One
assumes that when Eusebius wrote in Greek “one can see this
place to this very day…,” it meant that he had actually visited
the place himself, or that he acquired some reliable first-hand
information about it. He was particularly good when it came
to places in the hill country and along the coast, but less reliable
about far-flung places. There is also information in his
work about provinces and administrative districts, about the
ethnic makeup of settlements, topography and holy places,
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