Calling Europe's bluff

Hillel Halkin has an article in the New York Sun, with which I largely disagree. Halkin says that American influence in the Middle East is waning, while Europe's is increasing (possible), that the first six years, which were a golden period in US-Israel relations have been wasted (true, but not for the reasons that he says), and that time is not in Israel's favor (may not be true - look how many