The leader of a group representing France’s secular Jews told his country’s prime minister that France has a one-sided approach toward the Middle East. “The least we should expect from our own French leaders is they should listen to and try to understand what Israel’s representatives have to say,” Henri Hajdenberg said to Lionel Jospin at a banquet held Saturday for CRIF, a Jewish umbrella organization.
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