The European Union’s foreign ministers met to vote in support of the French peace initiative, a decision expected to bolster Paris’s efforts to kick start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Neither Israeli nor Palestinian representatives were invited to attend the meeting, which aimed to lay the ground for a full-fledged peace conference to be held by the end of the year. The Palestinians have welcomed the French bid but Israel has said the initiative would go down in history as having “pushed peace further away.” The  Israeli  Foreign Ministry failed to prevent the EU foreign ministers’ motion from being passed, and that it’s now focusing efforts on getting them to soften the announcement’s language. France has reportedly pressed EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the other 27 foreign ministers of the EU states to throw their weight behind Paris’s initiative. An Israeli Foreign Ministry official said the French managed to garner the support of their EU allies to push for an international peace conference by year’s end.  Please pray that the French plan will totally fail as all the others have done.