‘French peace meeting new Dreyfus trial’

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman today criticised an upcoming Middle East peace conference organised by France, calling it a new “Dreyfus trial” and urged French Jews to move to Israel.

Representatives of around 70 countries are due to attend the January 15 conference aimed at restarting long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. 

Israel has strongly opposed it, instead calling for direct talks with the Palestinians. 

“This is not a peace conference. It’s a tribunal against Israel,” Lieberman told members of his Yisrael Beitenu party.