Sharon is a punk, says ambassador

[DuctapeFatwa]

The new French ambassador to Israel was involved in a diplomatic row yesterday after a report that he had called Israel a "paranoid country" and its Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, "a punk".

Silvan Shalom,Israel's Foreign Minister, ordered its embassy in Paris to seek official "clarification" of the report in Yedioth Ahronoth.

The newspaper's Paris correspondent, Boaz Bismout, said that Gerard Araud, who is yet to take up his post in Tel Aviv, made the remarks last week in a private conversation at a cocktail party for senior French diplomats given by Dominique de Villepin, the Foreign Minister. The report said M. Araud had "repeatedly" used the word "voyou" of Mr Sharon and had criticised the controversial fence being built to cut off the Palestinian territories.

The dispute may partly focus on the meaning of voyou - a term sometimes used by parents of misbehaving children...

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=439003

[Darranar]

1. Dupe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=124&topic_id=9532

[userdave2061]

2. he had called Israel a "paranoid country"

Yep. The bus bombings and other bloody acts against the children of Israel were figments of the paranoid mind. They only happened in the minds of those that care. Yea right.

[cherryperry]

3. Well, that's what you get

when you believe all that silliness about a Shoah let alone pogroms in Russia...the ridiculous things those Jews actually think are true!

[Violet_Crumble]

4. Uh, France has never denied any of those things...

So you and the poster above you are carrying on like France does is just a very clumsy attempt to deflect attention from the very real reason why there's French criticism of Israels policies in the Occupied Territories...

Violet...