“France is going to war in Mali because it says ‘we cannot have a terrorist state at the door of Europe,’ but when Israel launches a defensive operation to protect its citizens from missile attacks from terrorists in Gaza, all the French newspapers and television commentators scream about Israeli aggression. The distance between Bamako and Paris: 6266 km. The distance between Gaza and Israel: 1km.”The writer adds that it evokes one of Natan Sharansky's triple D definition of antisemitism: "double standards" (for his famous definition see here)
And for more on France and Mali see here from which the photo below is taken (it's a demo outside the French Embassy in Old London Town)
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It's from this article
ReplyDeleteMali is France’s Gaza by Ron Agam
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/01/14/mali-is-frances-gaza/
I had that in my Monday links
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/monday-linkdump.html
More double standards.
Amnesty hypocrisy: French try to avoid civilian casualties, Israelis don't
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/amnesty-hypocrisy-french-try-to-avoid.html
Thanks so much, Ian. You're an amazing fund of knowledge.
ReplyDeleteFrench foreign policy has been utterly hypocritical since de Gaulle decided to turn on the Jews and side with the Arab states in the 60's.
ReplyDeleteThere were three Jews on his Algiers-based Committee of National Liberation during the war. I recall his speech in Canada describing Jews as "an elite people" which seemed to herald a turn for the worse. He did have an Arabist foreign policy, as you say, Adam.
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