There is general agreement on the aims to be achieved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the end of violence and a peaceful solution based on the concept of two sovereign states. However, Europeans consider the opinion recently expressed by Bush – that Palestinian democracy and not Israeli occupation of the West Bank is at the core of the problem – to be ill conceived.
欧美在解决巴以冲突要达成的目标方面也有共识：终止暴力和一个以两个主权国家的理念为基础的和平解决方案。然而，欧洲人认为布什最近发表的关于巴勒斯坦的民主而非以色列对约旦河西岸的占领才是问题核心的言论有失妥当。