The prevailing mood among European diplomats dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of despair: the peace process is dead, the two-state solution seems gone, and the United States is taking one detrimental step after another.
Meanwhile, the European Union appears to be stuck on the sidelines.
Yet in fact, Europe's role has rarely been as important and its responsibility rarely as big as they are now.
For decades, Europe has advocated a two-state solution tha...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.