French President Jacques Chirac rejected Israel’s request to add Hezbollah to the E.U.’s list of terrorist groups. Chirac told Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Monday that Hezbollah fulfills social and political functions in Lebanon — and that denouncing the fundamentalist group could harm Israel because it would weaken Lebanon’s central government. Chirac also reportedly denounced what he called a campaign being run in the United States to present France as an anti-Semitic country.
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