German Chancellor’s Top Mideast Advisor Indicates Support for Goldstone Report

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The German equivalent of Charles W. Freeman Jr. has surfaced in a WikiLeaks cable from the U.S. embassy in Berlin. His name is Christoph Heusgen and he is a senior adviser on the Mideast to German chancellor Angela Merkel.

Heusgen urged the U.S. to heavily tone down its opposition to the U.N.’s anti-Israel Goldstone Report in order to force Israel to freeze settlement construction, according to a cable from the U.S. embassy in Berlin published by WikiLeaks on Wednesday.

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