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| French Writer Passes Libya Rebels Message to Israel |
| 2011-06-03 |
| [An Nahar] French writer Bernard Henri Levy said he delivered a message on Thursday from Libyan rebel leaders to Israel's premier saying they would seek diplomatic ties with Israel if they came to power. Levy told Agence La Belle France Presse he passed on the verbal message from Libya's National Transitional Council during a 90-minute meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. "The main point was that the future Libyan regime would be moderate and anti-terrorist and will be concerned with justice for the Paleostinians and security for Israel," Levy said. "The future regime will maintain normal relations with other democratic countries, including Israel," he added. Levy, who helped engineer La Belle France's recognition of Libya's decampedgling rebel authority, visited the rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata last weekend. He said on Thursday that Netanyahu "did not appear surprised" at the content of the Libyan message. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Two possibilities---not necessarily mutually exclusive. (i) They're really, really desperate. (ii) We know Bernard Henri lives in alternate reality. I don't think Levy is lying. Arab leaders, however, have this habit of saying diametrically opposed things to different people. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-06-03 16:56 |
| #4 From the Angry Arab The Libyan Transitional Council and Israel I detest the Libyan Transitional Council but I detest even more Bernard-Henri Lévy, and find him to be fabricator of the first order. Regarding claims he has made about a message from the lousy Libyan Transitional Council to Israel, I was skeptical. Sure enough the Libyan council said this: "The vice-chairman of the Libyan opposition National Transition Council (NTC), Mr Abdelhafid Roka, has denied in a statement to Echorouk the persisting rumours alleging that the NTC is envisaging to establish relations with Israel in the future. "I firmly deny as baseless the recent declaration made to this effect by French writer and philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy on behalf of the Libyan national transition council", Roka asserted. He stressed that the NTC had never asked Henri Levy to convey any message of this sort to the Zionist entity leaders as alleged by the troublesome French writer and philosopher." (thanks "Ibn Rushd") Abdelhafid Roka further underlined that such groundless assertions were being propagated by the despotic Kadhafi regime and its henchmen with the glaring aim of tarnishing the image of the national transition council in the eyes of the fervent supporters of the legitimate Palestinian cause in the Arab world and elsewhere." |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-06-03 15:31 |
| #3 Two possibilities---not necessarily mutually exclusive. (i) They're really, really desperate. (ii) We know Bernard Henri lives in alternate reality. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-06-03 03:51 |
| #2 "The main point was that the future Libyan regime would be moderate and anti-terrorist and will be concerned with justice for the Paleostinians and security for Israel," Does that mean you plan to take the Paleostinians into Libya for a home there? That truely would be Justice! |
| Posted by: newc 2011-06-03 01:50 |
| #1 I think they're operating on a "promise them anything" basis... |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-06-03 00:28 |