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Israel’s incoming government had better embrace and pursue the “two-state-solution” being promoted by the rest if the world or face the displeasure of the European Union.

This was the threatening message conveyed Friday evening, shortly after the Jewish state entered the Sabbath Day.

The headlines, which appeared on the Internet sites of all Israel’s major news media, conveyed the same, peremptory message.

EU warns Israel on two-state issue – The Jerusalem Post.

EU warns Netanyahu over stalled peace process – Ha’aretz.

EU demands two state solution - Ynetnews.

It came from Karel Schwarzenberg, foreign minister of the Czech Republic which currently holds the EU presidency:

If the about-to-be-inaugurated Netanyahu government will not commit itself to establishing a Palestinian state in the heart of the ancient Jewish homeland, said Schwarzenberg, "relations would become very difficult indeed."

"At one of our next ministerial meetings we would have to discuss what consequences the EU would draw from that. Both parties must stick to their commitments from the past: A two-state solution and all agreements reached over the past few years."

The Czech minister enthused about the new US administration’s quick effort to work towards resolving the Arab-Israel conflict.

Obama’s decisive action meant that there is now "real hope for progress in the region," he said.

Luxembourg's foreign minister, Jean Asselborn, dangled carrots before Jerusalem, saying the much discussed and hoped-for upgrading of EU-Israeli trade and political ties would be contingent on Israel achieving a peace deal with the Palestinians.

Israel has made every effort to strike such a deal. It has surrendering control of some of its most sacred and strategic historic sites, allowing the PLO to establish itself as an armed and governmental presence in these territories, offered to place some of its greatest and most sacred national treasures on the negotiating table, and repeatedly taken unprecedented “risks for peace.”

Hundreds of Jews have been murdered as a direct result of these Israeli efforts.

Nonetheless Asselborn insisted:

"We must tell the Israelis that it is not allowed to walk away from the peace process... The upgrading process was always to be viewed from the perspective of the peace process having been completed."

According to The Jerusalem Post, the EU’s foreign policy czar, Javier Solana, also recently underscored how ties with Israel could be damaged should the incoming government not commit to the two-state solution.

"Let me say very clearly that the way the European Union will relate to an [Israeli] government that is not committed to a two-state solution will be very, very different," Solana said, adding unabashedly that Europe "will be ready to do business as usual, normally, with a government in Israel that will continue talking for a two-state solution."