The EU must accept democratically elected opponents in the Middle East

With Beirut burning and Haifa hit by Hezbollah rockets, the EU's so-called Barcelona Process looks like a failure.

At the 1995 Barcelona conference, the EU and 12 Mediterranean countries – including Israel and Lebanon – expressed their "conviction that the peace, stability and security of the Mediterranean region are a common asset which they pledge to promote and strengthen by all means at their disposal."

Outright war was hardly the sort of inter-state and inter-cultural dialogu...