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Israel Opposes French Plan Even If It Includes "Jewish State" Recognition
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - "There are many problems with the French initiative, one of them is the lack of recognition of a Jewish state," Israel Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold said Thursday. "But even if that were changed, it wouldn't alter many fundamental problems with the French initiative....When French diplomats vote for a resolution at UNESCO that rejects the historic Jewish connection to Jerusalem, it should not come as a surprise that Israel rejects the French initiative." The French plan includes a meeting later this month in Paris to set out parameters of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, and a follow up international conference later this year. "It would be much easier for Abbas to come to Jerusalem to meet Prime Minister Netanyahu, rather than set up this multi-state enterprise in Paris, which I don't think gets us any closer to a negotiated solution, and in fact makes a negotiated solution more distant."