Israel should “immediately” end its blockade of Gaza, read a declaration by the European Parliament on June 17, as it called for the European Union to monitor Gaza’s border crossings.

“We’ve made the offer to re-open the border mission and we’re waiting to see what they say,” said EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton, also on June 17. “What matters in the end is that the crossings are opened and that we move from a list of allowed items to a list of non-allowed products.”

The EU got what it wanted: Israel has given in to Hamas and effectively ended the blockade. From now on, Israel will allow anything into Gaza as long as it cannot be used for military purposes.

Yet Israel may surrender even more to the EU: It is thinking of asking the EU to send monitors to Gaza’s border crossings.

By allowing the EU to station inspectors at the Gaza checkpoints, Israel would be taking “a first step towards surrendering its sovereign control over its borders,” writes Caroline Glick.

From 2005 to 2007 the European Union Border Assistance Mission supervised the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Under the EU’s careful supervision, Hamas managed to smuggle enough weaponry into Gaza to take over the government in a violent coup. Terrorists snuck in from Iran, and $68 million in cash was smuggled through the checkpoint in one year alone.

Yet Israel is now considering letting these same border protection officials play a role in all of Gaza’s crossing points. With Israel’s history of making one concession after another, this would likely prove to be the first step toward turning over control of the border completely to Europe.

Israel has a history of trusting other nations with its security—for example, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (unifil). These nations have a history of failing miserably—unifil, again, is the perfect example, which was supposed to stop Hezbollah from rearming.

But Israel has more to fear from Europe than a complete dereliction of duty. Bible prophecy warns that the EU will actually double-cross Israel. When invited in to keep the peace, the EU will actually turn around and take Jerusalem. Watch for Israel to continue to place its trust in Europe. It is building to this prophesied event.

For more information, see our article “The Counterfeit Peacemaker.”