JERUSALEM – Europe’s vocation for peacemaking and for international norms of behavior is bound to become the base upon which Barack Obama will seek to reconstruct the transatlantic alliance that his predecessor so badly damaged. How fast America’s new president addresses the Arab-Israeli conflict will be of paramount concern to Europeans in this effort. For to them, Jerusalem has always mattered more than Baghdad, but George W. Bush refused to listen.
耶路撒冷－欧洲对缔造和平和国际行为规范的号召，必定会成为巴拉克·奥巴马寻求重建被其前任严重破坏的大西洋两岸国家联盟的基础。在这一努力中，美国新任总统以多快的速度回应阿拉伯－以色列冲突，对欧洲来说是至关重要的。因为对欧洲来说，耶路撒冷一直比巴格达更加重要，但是，乔治·沃克·布什却拒绝听取这一点。