Foreign Minister David Levy of Israel left Paris on Thursday after a three-day working visit during which controversial issues were avoided and Franco-Israeli friendship was strongly affirmed.
In fact, President Francois Mitterrand said he “understood” that “Jerusalem is the very soul of the Jewish people,” and that Israel would never give it up, Levy reported.
The two countries are in solid agreement that President Saddam Hussein of Iraq must not be allowed to reap any benefits from the present confrontation in the Persian Gulf.
France and Israel remain very much at odds, however, over a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
But Levy agreed with his hosts that they would not allow their divergence of views to impair their long-standing friendship.
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