EU to Israel: If the peace talks fail, it’s all your fault

The EU is at it again, unwilling to give even the tiniest portion of responsibility for the lack of peace in Israel and the terrortories[sic] to the Palestinians. Oh, no, it’s all on Israel.

The price of failure at the Annapolis conference in November could be greater than that of the Camp David conference in 2000, the EU’s special representative to the Middle East Marc Otte told Israeli reporters in Brussels on Monday.

Oh noes! Doom and gloom! Teh Middle East is falling!

Otte told the reporters that if Israel were to wait any longer it would be dealing with Hamas as its partner for peace rather than Abbas, and added that Israel’s lack of support of the Palestinian president in the past has contributed to the current situation in Gaza.

You get that part, right? Terrorism has nothing to do with the current situation in Gaza. Fatah’s corruption has nothing to do with the current situation in Gaza. Palestinian irredentism, and their willingness to insist that the only way out of their problem is to destroy Israel—none of these things had anything to do with the current situation. This is all about Israel refusing to support Mahmoud Abbas, a man who can only get elected dogcatcher after the pit bulls have been running wild for over a year.

Saying that both Israel and Palestinian leaderships were weak, Otte expressed uncertainty regarding the two leaders’ ability to bring about a solution to the conflict.

Otte added that it would be impossible to reach peace with only part of the Palestinian population and that Hamas would have to be included in the solution.

Yet another call to negotiate with Hamas. That would be the same group that’s tried at least seven times in the last six weeks to blow up Israelis via suicide bombs. Sure, talk to them. What could go wrong, besides, well, everything?

Yeah. Blind, clueless EU Middle East envoys… where have we seen this before? Oh. Right. That would be every single one of the EU Middle East envoys.