US excludes Europe

The start of the Middle East summit in Washington prompts former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin to examine the role of the Europeans in the daily La Vanguardia: "I have to admit that I don't understand why the Obama administration is keeping Europe out of the negotiations. After all, over the past twenty years the main phases of the process have taken place in Europe. And Europe has dedicated time, experience and resources to the efforts to resolve the world's most enduring conflict since the end of the Second World War: the Madrid Conference initiated the whole process (with strong US engagement); Paris was host to the signing of the economic agreement between Israel and the Palestinians; and the most important compromises of all those reached between Israelis and Palestinians were achieved in Oslo and Geneva, which are not part of the European Union."

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