France has rejected Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's comparison of its upcoming Middle East peace summit to the anti-Semitic Dreyfus trial of 1894, according to a Tuesday-morning report by Maariv.
Officials at the Foreign Ministry in Paris told the newspaper, "We have nothing to say about these things, but to make it clear that France is organizing a conference on January 15 to repeat the commitment of the international community to the two states living side by side in peace and security, and to reaffirm the necessity of this solution."