Sacr� bleu! French are Shocked by Gaza Flotilla Incident

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Sacr� bleu! French are Shocked by Gaza Flotilla Incident

by Nidra Poller (June 2010)

The French reaction to the Gaza Flotilla incident was predictable. President Sarkozy pulled the “disproportionate” card out of his ever ready deck. The loquacious Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner was deeply shocked, horrified really, that such a humanitarian flotilla could be met with such violence and such humanitarian activists could be so brutally killed, leaving their loved ones to mourn and Monsieur Kouchner to grieve and, moreover, to concluded that Israel must abandon the nasty Gaza blockade and put an end to all such provocation. No amount of video footage showing Israeli soldiers bashed, stabbed, firebombed, thrown overboard, or shot could deflect the anger aimed at Israel by Dr. Kouchner--a seasoned humanitarian in his own right. Anything done under the certified “peace activist” label is fit for human consumption and must not be marketed without constraint. more>>>

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