EU must stand up to Trump's Middle East 'peace plan'
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Donald Trump's decision to move US embassy to Jerusalem was part of paradigm shift (Photo: Hadar).
By MARTIN KONECNY
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.
US plan risks excerbating the conflict (Photo: un.org)
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 that would involve the state of Israel and a state of Palestine "living side by side in peace and security".
The EU has describe...