France’s ambassador to Britain said he could not remember calling Israel “that shitty little country.” Daniel Bernard issued the denial through a spokesman Wednesday following reports that he had made the statement at a private dinner last week with Conrad Black, owner of the London Daily Telegraph, which first printed the remark and depicted the speaker as anti-Semitic.
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