This incarnation of the Israeli-Palestinian process began at an American-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis, Md., last November.
Faulting the United States for inaction in the Mideast, he was quoted as saying, "In the light of the failure to move the Israeli-Palestinian process forward, military action against Iraq would really open Pandora's box".
For years, apathy and avoidance had caused us to rarely discuss the dire state of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, or Palestinian politics in general but we found ourselves doing it over dinner.
Because Israel is a partner, Barcelona has often been hostage to the Palestinian peace process.
And so Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), the leadership and the Palestinian peace process team made a choice.
It was during a discussion of the collapse of the Palestinian peace process in the aftermath of the second intifadah.
Israeli movement on the Palestinian peace process would help immeasurably in improving the prospects for constructive dialogue.
Yet with the Palestinian peace process at an impasse, there have been increasing voices in Israel for a refocus on negotiations with Syria.
Obama, on the other hand, is set to invest personal effort in the Palestinian peace process, pressing Netanyahu to accept a framework agreement drawn up by Kerry.
Mr. Abbas has urged Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups to give up their weapons and join the Palestinian political process.
Presented partly in a verbatim theatre format, the film is a non-editorialising but nevertheless angry indictment of rightwing Orthodox Jewish factions for scuppering the Palestinian peace process.
