"Strategic consultations between Israel and France last week deteriorated into an argument over French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius' initiative to advance a resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian issue in the United Nations Security Council, with Israel arguing that Paris was operating behind Israel's back...
Israeli diplomats said that in recent weeks the Foreign Ministry had received information indicating that the French had started discussing the wording of a draft resolution in both Paris and New York with the Palestinians, the Arab states and several members of the Security Council. By contrast, the French had not held similar consultations with Israel and never gave Israel a draft of the resolution or at least an outline of its main points.
[Foreign Ministry Director General Nissim] Ben-Sheetrit protested this behavior at last week's meeting, according to two Israeli diplomats familiar with the details of the discussions. 'You are speaking with the whole world about your initiative, just not with us,' the diplomats quoted him as saying. 'You seem to have forgotten that we are also a party to this and that you ought to involve us, too.'..."