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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1280)12/23/2001 4:22:55 AM
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10:45 Dec-23-01, 8 Tevet 5762

French Ambassador Curses Israel
(IsraelNationalNews.com) The French Ambassador to the United Kingdom is reported to have referred to Israel as “that [expletive] little country,” further asking “Why should we be in danger of World War III because of these people?” The comments were made during a dinner party Friday evening.

The French government released a statement to the effect that “the ambassador does not remember if he used those words.” Claiming that the comments, which he doesn’t remember making, were part of an intellectual discourse on world affairs, the statement continued, “The ambassador was pointing out the paradox that although Israel is a tiny country, it had repercussions worldwide totally out of the proportion to its size. He was talking about geography. It was nothing to do with anti-Semitism.”

An editorial in Friday’s New York Daily News commented, “Geography? What map labels the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean as ‘the [expletive] little country’?” Elan Steinberg of the World Jewish Congress reacted to the French statement by saying, “I come from Brooklyn, and if you say you can't remember saying something, you said it.”
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