A recent report by the Middle East Quartet ignores the realities of Arab-Israeli diplomacy and offers little to either side but hectoring.

European diplomacy might be better aimed by helping to forge an international consensus that encourages the use of legal frameworks to provide an alternative to unilateral use of force and the creating of facts on the ground.

In the long term, the EU has managed to keep alive—even if only on life support—a diplomatic process based on a two-state solution.

How Europeans can foster a more productive approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reinvigorate the stalled peace process.