(Bloomberg) James G. Neuger - EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini cast doubt on the movement to recognize Palestine as a state, asking whether the gesture would promote a Middle East peace settlement. "The recognition of the state and even the negotiations are not a goal in itself, the goal in itself is having a Palestinian state in place and having Israel living next to it," Mogherini told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday. Benny Dagan, deputy head of the Israeli Foreign Ministry's policy research center, told the German Marshall Fund in Brussels this week that "empty gestures" would lessen the Palestinian will to make compromises needed for peace.
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