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2004-06-21 Israel-Palestine

France ready to join international force in Gaza

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Posted by Seafarious 2004-06-21 6:41:28 PM|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Two questions for the French Forces: How will you get there and what will you do when (not if) the Paleos launch a rocket into Israel? A followup question: Who is going to pay for this deployment? EU? UN? NATO? Surely not the US!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-06-21 6:59:46 PM|| 2004-06-21 6:59:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 ...and what will they do after the first French trooper gets bumped off?

Posted by 11A5S 2004-06-21 7:05:27 PM|| 2004-06-21 7:05:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I suspect they're thinking more about restraining Israel than the Palestinians or the Egyptians. Arafat has been calling for years for an international force to protect him, which also protesting he is unable to restrain attacks on Israel from his territory.

Posted by rkb 2004-06-21 7:07:39 PM|| 2004-06-21 7:07:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 pffft... the French will withdraw long before the Israeli's do. That's what French do, withdraw.

Posted by B 2004-06-21 7:12:51 PM|| 2004-06-21 7:12:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 What do they imagine they will be doing in Gaza? Protecting the poor Pals from the mean Israeli's? More likely protecing Pals from other Pals, and hiding when the shooting gets to bad.

Gaza should be left alone.

Posted by Yank 2004-06-21 7:16:33 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-06-21 7:16:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 rkb's on the mark! The Paleos would be able to launch Qassams and Katyushas over the fence and the French would bear witness to the payback "atrocities" committed by that "shitty little country"

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-21 7:16:42 PM|| 2004-06-21 7:16:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the nuances of war...

Posted by Pappy 2004-06-21 7:26:49 PM|| 2004-06-21 7:26:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "'We have stated our availability to take part, at the appropriate moment, including through an international presence whose format remains to be determined', Barnier said..."

Stirring words. That's practically right out of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Posted by Matt 2004-06-21 7:37:54 PM|| 2004-06-21 7:37:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The Israelis need help developing surrender techniques?

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-06-21 7:41:04 PM|| 2004-06-21 7:41:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 LOL Pappy!

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-21 7:42:56 PM|| 2004-06-21 7:42:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Let's see....French troopers surrounded by heathen leftists....sounds like Dien Bien Phu redux to me...'cept this time the Frenchies are aiding the heathens...

Posted by borgboy2001@yahoo.com 2004-06-21 8:21:44 PM|| 2004-06-21 8:21:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually, Mr. D, if they're going to Gaza, they're probably going to end up working ~~for free for losers~~ on behalf of the Palestinians - in which case the terrorist threat to Israel's gonna go down real fast. Imagine it: the French teaching their favorite ~~victims~~ ~~losers~~ cause how to do what they do best!

Either that, or the Paleos turn on the French. That should be a lot of fun.

Posted by The Doctor 2004-06-21 8:22:19 PM|| 2004-06-21 8:22:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The French will only fire their weapons at Israeli's (unarmed Israelis citizens that is, not the IDF).

If this crap goes through, wait and see. They will "protect" Arab squatters against "vigilante Jewish mobs."

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-06-21 8:23:42 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2004-06-21 8:23:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Will France be sensitive and recruit a brigade from the Muslim rings surrounding their cities? Those punks might be the hardest boys in France right now.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-21 8:25:12 PM|| 2004-06-21 8:25:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 French troopers surrounded by heathen leftists....sounds like Dien Bien Phu redux to me...'cept this time the Frenchies are aiding the heathens...

Legion Etrange in Dien Bien Phu, not regular Army.
Don't think France will put them there. That said, I wouldn't put it past France to do what RVW suggests. Gets rid of the hard-cases from around Paris, sucks up to the Arabs and massages the French institutional anti-semitism.

Posted by Pappy 2004-06-21 10:29:23 PM|| 2004-06-21 10:29:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Good idea. Give 'em a nice handy local pool of international hostages. Then we can all chuckle knowingly when they start bumping them off.

Posted by mojo 2004-06-21 10:44:33 PM|| 2004-06-21 10:44:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 I guess after the French government heard about so many Jews wanting to leave France, they decided to put their army where it could still be used against them.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-06-21 10:51:17 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-06-21 10:51:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 I wouldn't trust the Frenchies any more than I can spell crossant. Somehow, someway, there's money in it for Chirac. Moreover, wouldn't it be nice if they deployed in Afganistan?

Posted by Capt America 2004-06-21 11:34:38 PM|| [http://captamerica.blogspot.com/] 2004-06-21 11:34:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Former French PM, Rocard (Member, European Parliament) says founding of Israel, a "mistake."
http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_06/112.html

I post the entire article only because the Euro-financed IPC propaganda center, soon deadlinks their poison:

Former French PM: Creation of Israel by Balfour Declaration a Historic Mistake

GAZA, June 19, 2004 (IPC + Asharq Al-Awsat)-- The former French Prime Minister and current member of the European Parliament, Michel Rocard, blasted Israel as an "abnormal case in the world", describing its creation by the 1917-Balfour Declaration as a "historic mistake".

Rocard, who is also a well-known member of the French Socialist Party, was delivering a lecture at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on June 16, in which he said that the Balfour promise England gave to the Jews to create a national homeland for them in Palestine was a "mistake".

He also described the Israeli state as a "unique and abnormal condition because it was created with a promise, and that millions of Jews gathered from all around the world, creating an entity that continues to pose a threat to its neighbors until today."

Rocard also drew attention to the fact that Israel was also historically created on a racist basis, depending on armed conflict to set its borders. Rocard referred to the colonization of the Arab world, of which his country was involved in, as the main reason behind the current state of violence and conflict in the Middle East.

However, Rocard warned that delaying a peace agreement between the Arab states and Israel would "greatly increase violence in the region," pointing out that the long-demanded reforms in the Arab states stemmed from the inside, not imposed by outside forces.

"Peace must spring from a religious base â¦ all reforms can be made possible through the teachings of our divine religions. To pray to God is accepted, but violence is not,â concluded Rocard.

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