Palestine: France Humiliated By Abbas But Israel Remains Focussed
The idea that any Palestinian State will ever be democratic is as fanciful as France's belief that its planned international conference could ever succeed
French foreign policy on resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict has been exposed to ridicule following France's reported decision to postpone an international conference planned for December 21.
Originally proposed on 3 June--France's blatant attempt to replace the conduct of direct negotiations between Israel and the PLO - as provided for in the internationally approved Oslo Accords and the Bush Roadmap - has embarrassingly fallen flat on its face.