Yariş, Zelal BaşakYaris, Zelal BasakAcar, NecmettinAcar, Necmettin04.03. Department of Political Science and International Relations / Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü04. Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences / İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi01. Mardin Artuklu University / Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi2025-07-152025-07-1520251302-177Xhttps://doi.org/10.25253/99.2025271.14https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12514/9043From the 1980s onwards, the EU took a balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the last two decades, the EU has abandoned its role as a normative and neutral player. It appeared to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict within the context of security. On this basis, the paper aims to assess changing policies of the EU towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the early 1970s. By revisiting constructivist theories, the study attempts to find out the role of the identities in the EU's policies toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It concludes that the shift in the identities of the major political actors from the Palestine Liberation Organization to Hamas led to the reformulation of its policy toward Israeli-Palestinian conflict.en10.25253/99.2025271.14info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessEuropean UnionIsraeli-Palestinian ConflictIdentitiesInterestsArticle2-s2.0-105009609067