A LITTLE FRENCH BASHING

Israel Makes a Good Point, Uses Wrong Example (NYSun)
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, at this morning's Emergency General Assembly:

Here we are again, with the same sense of deja vu, with the terrorists accusing the victims, this Assembly being again used, abused, and hijacked so cynically.

He concluded:

If France was shelled from across the border, what would the French do? Would the French government send flowers to their attackers? Well, by voting for this resolution you will be sending flowers to the terrorists, flowers which tomorrow will be laid on the grave of the next Israeli victim.

Well actually, if history is anything to go by, the French would probably send flowers, wave white flags, and allow those shelling to march through the Arc de Triomphe. But the underlying point is spot on.

IN FACT, IT SEEMS THE ONLY PEOPLE THE FRENCH ARE WILLING TO SHOOT ARE ISRAELIS:

French UN troops prepare guns against Israeli jets in Lebanon (AFP)
TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) - French UN anti-aircraft batteries have taken “preparatory steps” to respond to Israeli jets violating Lebanese airspace, despite global criticism of such incursions.

“The anti-aircraft unit of the (French) battalion took initial preparatory steps to respond to these actions,” Milos Strugar, spokesman for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) told AFP on Friday.

He said “UNIFIL observed and reported 14 Israeli air violations this morning, on November 17, 2006, and 11 of these violations occurred in the area of operation of the French battalion with UNIFIL.”