What more can the EU do to increase its contribution to the peace process in the Middle East?
KA: We believe the EU can exert much more influence on Israel. It has in fact the possibility to work with both sides. I guess we just ask to move things on both sides. It’s difficult because there is resistance from both sides on moving ahead, on compromising, on accommodating another’s point of view, on getting to the table to negotiate and understanding each other. Q. You step down this year after 9 years, looking back at the time spent at UNRWA, which do you consider to be your main achievements? KA: I arrived in the Agency before the second Intifada so we were at that time hoping that there would be peace, there were signs from Camp David and Tabgha to Lebanon. It has been a period of conflict, really, and increasing conflict. After the Intifada died down, we had the elections, there have been periods of hope but they have all been dashed and things got worse. And then a culmination of the worseness is what happened in January in Gaza We are proud that we have had a reform to brin
