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2011-06-03 Africa North

French Writer Passes Libya Rebels Message to Israel

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I think they're operating on a "promise them anything" basis...

Posted by mojo 2011-06-03 00:28|| 2011-06-03 00:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-06-03 01:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-06-03 03:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-06-03 15:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-06-03 16:56|| Front Page Top

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