Full circle: Europeans want to be part of 'peace talks'

When I was a kid, the one thing everyone in Israel feared was an 'international peace conference' at which Israel would be vastly outnumbered. No, insisted Israeli policymakers. We will negotiate individually with each Arab country (recall that there were no 'Palestinians' when I was a kid). In the 1990's, Israel negotiated over peace with Jordan (successfully - or so it seemed), with Syria and