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2006-11-09 Europe

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-09 10:38|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 JFM might be right in his assessment of yacoub ben shiraq needing an open, shooting war with Israel to run for a third time and hopefully get re-elected.

This is crazy, but then again french politics are getting crazier and crazier, aloof from reality, and driven by personal ambitions hiding behind failed ideologies and addicts to political power and taxpayers money

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-09 12:24|| 2006-11-09 12:24|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, buuuuuttt,
is this France's payoff to keep their OWN intifadah under control?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-11-09 12:28|| 2006-11-09 12:28|| Front Page Top

#3 wow. This should be frontpage news. But we just voted in the party that will support France.

Posted by anon 2006-11-09 12:30|| 2006-11-09 12:30|| Front Page Top

#4 That would have been the last goddamn thing the French troops would have done.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-11-09 12:31|| 2006-11-09 12:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The anti-israeli stance is indeed part of the equation to placate the restless Youths (the others being the endless stream of subsidies, and the apologist culture of the mainstream ideology).

Fun part is, this whole anti-israeli stance is in itself fueling the restlessness of the Youths, by applying the full force of the MSM to entrench them in their worldview... kinda like the Tf1 star anchorman having a lapsus yesterday, while presenting the 18 dead paleos with the usual french MSM progaganda bia (IE giving only the arab point of view, while palying the emotional chord with shots of dead bodies,...), by saying "americans" instead of "israelis"...

By legitimizing the "armed resistance", "liberation struggle",... in Israel, and in Iraq too, the french System is incidentally justifying violence in France. It's a vicious circle. All hail our Glorious Arab Policy!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-09 12:39|| 2006-11-09 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Ima thinking this is a really bad idea. The French did well against the Greenpeace hippies at the Battle of the Rainbow Warrior, but the Israelies have a lot of practice lately shooting at people and things.

Posted by SteveS 2006-11-09 12:40|| 2006-11-09 12:40|| Front Page Top

#7 You can bet the UN GPS coordinates have been registered to the last foxhole.

Posted by ed 2006-11-09 12:43|| 2006-11-09 12:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I wouldn't discount the possibility of a non-authorized incident - 15% of French military is Muslim.

Posted by mrp 2006-11-09 12:45|| 2006-11-09 12:45|| Front Page Top

#9 IDF, the french don't matter. They are not much more than buffoons who have not been able to do anything of substance since Napoleon.

Posted by Xenophon 2006-11-09 18:33|| 2006-11-09 18:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Shame that patriotic French military will have to die for the fecklessness of Jacques and Dhimminique and Michele....(one of them is a woman, I can't remember which...). Light up an IAF jet and reap the consequences

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-09 18:43|| 2006-11-09 18:43|| Front Page Top

#11 French fighting the Jews? Not unless the jews are unarmed and loaded in cattle cars. I got $20 says the Israelis don't even work up a sweat.

Posted by Weird Al 2006-11-09 18:54|| 2006-11-09 18:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Spot on Al. The IDF would char up a tasty batch of French fries and be back in time for corn flakes (so to speak).

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-11-09 19:04|| 2006-11-09 19:04|| Front Page Top

#13 I got $20 says the Israelis don't even work up a sweat.

I see your $20 and double down. (As it were)

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