German Member of the European Parliament Elmar Brok said Israel and Europe could both benefit from cooperation and discussion on counterterrorism, and Europe could stand to learn from Israel’s experience in the matter.

Chairman of the important European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee (AFET), Brok headed this week a delegation of nine members of the committee on a visit to the Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee headed by MK Avi Dichter.

‘’We wish to hear from you, the Israelis, because we believe that you can give us some insights which might be helpful for us on this issue," Brok told the Israeli MKs he met.

He said that there is a change in the global terror environment. "Terror used to be concentrated in certain countries such as the IRA in Ireland and the Basque terrorists in Spain. However at present we have global terror which we saw in Ankara, Paris, Tunisia, Egypt, and Berlin, all stemming partially from the same origin and we must develop a global anti-terrorist strategy to combat it. ‘’

In his address to the European MPs,Avi Dichter, emphasized that "It is now clear that the last six years in the Middle East have nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The conflicts in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt and even in Sinai had nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However the Arabs even when they fight among themselves will always define Israel, the European countries, and the entire Western world as strangers."

Israel and Europe are in the same boat when confronting radical Islamist terroris, he said.