France

Le Pen questioned the importance of Nazi death camps and rejected France’s role in deporting its Jews. His support comes from ethnic French rather than Judophobic Muslim immigrants.

All presidential candidates address the problem.

Although finishing second, Royal received almost half the French votes. Sarkozy’s grandfather was a converted Jew.

expressing disloyalty to Israel. Lebanese French have also voted for Sarkozy. France’s attitude to Israel’s next war with Hezbollah remains ambiguous.

Socialist Party’s Hubert Vedrine has a history of vehemently opposing Israel in favor of the Palestinians and Arabs in generally.
French citizens in Lebanon overwhelmingly voted for Sarkozy, expected him to be pro-Arab.

The do-nothing talk-a-lot friend of Israel and incidentally of Lebanon, Sarkozy joined the American push for more sanctions. Iran defied all the earlier sanctions and continues its nuclear program. Even the pro-Muslim el Baradei, the head of IAEA, says Iran’s nuclear enrichment is unstoppable – that is, by diplomatic efforts.
The US again tries to bully Iran with parading two aircraft carriers near Iranian coast. That didn’t work two months ago.

After France under Sarkozy called for tougher sanctions on nuclear Iran, Iran’s nuclear negotiator Larijani offered France to mediate talks over Iranian nuclear program. The talks are meaningless, since Iran insists on continuing its nuclear program.

After French foreign minister announced that sanctions against Iran don’t work and France must prepare for war with Iran over its nuclear program, now France pushes for more of worthless sanctions against Iran.

in abandoning Jerusalem to the Arab enemy. And Olmert is better be creative, since rational arguments in favor of dividing the Jewish capital with Fatah thugs are none. Sarkozy could better lectured Olmert on France’s own policies with its colonial enemies, such as slaughtering millions in Algeria and Indochina.

Sarkozy refused further negotiations with Syria until Assad allows the Lebanese parliament to elect another vehemently anti-Israeli president.

French people whose grandparents enthusiastically helped the Germans to deport French Jews to their deaths, oppose Sarkozy’s daring plan of Holocaust education in French schools. The plan will require each ten-year-old French to learn a short life story of one of the 11,000 French Jewish children perished in Holocaust. The protesters assert the truth would be unbearable for the young French. Let’s see.

French FM Kouchner urges Israel to “take the risk” and negotiate cease-fire with Hamas, even though he recognizes than Hamas will use the pause to strengthen its arsenals.
Why don’t we take the risk of burning that place to dust?