Hey France, Shove It
If they weren't so anti-Semitic, I'd call it Chutzpa:
The French government has demanded that Israel provide information on companies selling arms to the Ivory Coast, where a civil war is now raging. The demand, which indirectly places responsibility on Israeli companies for the death of French soldiers on a peace-keeping mission, was apparently raised by the French Embassy's military attache...
The French say the soldiers were killed when drones and surveillance systems assisted the Ivory Coast air force in attacking a base where they were stationed. The Ivory Coast government said the attack had been directed at rebel forces. In a reprisal, however, the French air force destroyed the Ivory Coast aircraft, hit the drones and destroyed the intelligence center operated by the Israeli systems.
First of all, where does France get off criticized anyone for selling weapons to rogue regimes? These are the people who stood in the way of liberating Iraq so that they could keep their arms sales and oil gluttony from the public eye. French arms killed American soldiers in Iraq.
Second, how insane is it that France could be so pompous as to demand a formal "explanation" from Israel for supplying weapons before any war ever started to a country that would then face a neo-imperialist onslaught from a petulant middle power. I know that this issue has been discussed on the blogosphere at length, but it's important to emphasize French hypocrisy because sometimes it's so surreal as to be unbelievable.
The French government has demanded that Israel provide information on companies selling arms to the Ivory Coast, where a civil war is now raging. The demand, which indirectly places responsibility on Israeli companies for the death of French soldiers on a peace-keeping mission, was apparently raised by the French Embassy's military attache...
The French say the soldiers were killed when drones and surveillance systems assisted the Ivory Coast air force in attacking a base where they were stationed. The Ivory Coast government said the attack had been directed at rebel forces. In a reprisal, however, the French air force destroyed the Ivory Coast aircraft, hit the drones and destroyed the intelligence center operated by the Israeli systems.
First of all, where does France get off criticized anyone for selling weapons to rogue regimes? These are the people who stood in the way of liberating Iraq so that they could keep their arms sales and oil gluttony from the public eye. French arms killed American soldiers in Iraq.
Second, how insane is it that France could be so pompous as to demand a formal "explanation" from Israel for supplying weapons before any war ever started to a country that would then face a neo-imperialist onslaught from a petulant middle power. I know that this issue has been discussed on the blogosphere at length, but it's important to emphasize French hypocrisy because sometimes it's so surreal as to be unbelievable.
