Israel called on the European Union to be more balanced in handling the Palestinian issue. “It is very important for the E.U. to be involved if they show a more balanced attitude towards the conflict,” Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told reporters Monday during a visit to Jerusalem by his French counterpart, Michel Barnier. “But you cannot ask us to accept a mediator which in advance tells us that its solution to the conflict would be a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with its capital in Jerusalem.”
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