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Europe
After riots, France invites Israeli police chiefs for advice
2005-12-13
After experiencing massive rioting throughout the country for about two weeks between late October and mid-November, senior French security officials have called upon senior Israeli police officials to give advice on crowd control in the mainly Muslim suburbs of the troubled towns and cities. Mideast sources revealed that the Israeli Police Chiefs, Gideon Ezra and Moshe Karadi, left their country headed for France on Sunday after an invitation by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The French Interior Ministry could not immediately confirm the invitation.
"Who? Nous? Ask for help from a shitty little country like that?"
The Israeli police force is viewed in Arab circles as being as repressive as the army and in October 2000 the police blatantly murdered 13 Israeli Arabs and wounded scores others who were protesting Israeli brutality in the Occupied Territories.
Think they might have something planned for Lyons, huh?
The two Israeli police officers, one Security Chief and the other High Commissioner, will spend four days in France and will meet with their counterparts, including the Republican Corps for Security (CRS), Frances elite anti-riot unit. The CRS was heavily involved in the October-November riots and in trying to contain the violence that was triggered after two youths died in an incident that police maintain they were not involved in.
And did one hell of a job, we might add...
But rumor that the two had died because of a police pursuit sparked off a chain reaction that hit over 20 cities and forced the government to enforce a curfew and invoke security laws that date from the 1950s and the war with Algerian separatists.
... since the situations were somewhat the same. Only it didn't work real well, did it?
Israeli press reports said that Ezra and Karadi would bring the lesson of the 2000 riots to the French, who are said to be "strongly interested" by the experience of the Israeli police. Daily newspaper "Haaretz" said that question of wide-reaching cooperation between the two police forces would be discussed during the meetings this week.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Amazing. Israel must not be too shitty after all. But then again, Phrance is in need of something....
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-12-13 20:17  

#5  yet, the riots weren't a "muslim" thing. . . .
Posted by: Ebbeater Flineper5200   2005-12-13 18:17  

#4  Israel should simply decline. Perhaps next time the French will be in a mood to treat them as something other than a shitty little country, though I doubt it. But let's find out.
Posted by: Snaimble Spolunter3000   2005-12-13 17:25  

#3  There is a biiig difference between using the skills of one's inferiours and extending the hand of friendship to one's equals. Given the rhetoric and overt actions of the French government, this reeks of the former. I suggest Israel extract a painful (for France) quid pro quo for sharing the expertise of her law enforcement officers, along the lines of a long-term preferential trade agreement for Israeli products, overt support for Israel at the U.N., and cessetion of all open and clandestine contact and support of Palestinian terrorist groups -- including their political arms. Israeli law enforcement acquired their oh-so valuable expertise directly due to French support of her enemies.

Let there be consequences!
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-12-13 16:52  

#2  This is a very, very significant step for the French. Requests for assistance from the French will not have been limited to CT advisors. There will most certainly have been an intelligence sharing component. The muzzies will not think kindly of the Israeli CT tutoring and partnership, I assure you. Again, this is a big step for the French, something akin to the French saying **** you muzzies.
Posted by: Besoeker   2005-12-13 08:34  

#1  An old europen tradition: useful Jews can be tolerated.
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-12-13 00:09  

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