The European Union urged Israel not to shun the new Palestinian Authority president. “I ask Israel to give him a chance,” Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, whose country holds the E.U. rotating presidency, said Tuesday when asked about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s suspension of contacts with Mahmoud Abbas following a surge of violence in the Gaza Strip.
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