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French kids' magazine pulped after claiming Israel 'not a real country'
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| 27 December 2017 10:32 CET+01:00
Posted on 12/27/2017 3:24:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
A French children’s magazine has been withdrawn from newsstands after one of its articles listed Israel along with North Korea as places that were not “real countries.”
The article in the latest edition of the monthly Youpi magazine, which is aimed at children aged five to eight, caused uproar on social media, with the Israeli ambassador to France saying that she was saying she was “shocked” and French Jewish groups calling for the magazine to be removed from shops.
The offending article said that “there are 197 countries, like France, Algeria or Germany.”
“There are a few more, but not all other countries in the world agree that they are real countries (for example the State of Israel or North Korea),” it stated.
Israeli ambassador Aliza Bin Noun tweeted that she was “shocked at this lie taught to children. Such rhetoric can only incite anti-Zionism, which is inseparable from anti-Semitism, as President Macron has reminded us.” …
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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antizionism; dhimmitude; emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; israel; macron; northkorea; rop; youpi
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:24:41 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:28:11 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Olog-hai
Given that most French kids are named Mohammed, the concept probably more accepted than people realize
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:28:55 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Olog-hai
Not sure France or Germany are real countries....
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:33:34 PM PST
by
Enchante
(FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
To: Enchante
Not sure France or Germany are real countries.... Mere provinces of the EU.
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:36:28 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
To: KarlInOhio
Mere provinces of the future Caliphate.
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:38:04 PM PST
by
Enchante
(FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
To: Olog-hai
What right does any entity have of telling Israel what their capital is?
That would be like France telling us that we had no right to call Washington DC our capital.
It makes no sense.
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posted on
12/27/2017 3:44:57 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkey - A Polish saying that means I ain't got a dog in this hunt.)
To: Slyfox
They’re not even saying Israel is a real country, here. Even worse is the comparison with North Korea.
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posted on
12/27/2017 4:05:22 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
Anyone who thinks that Israel doesn’t have the right to have Jerusalem as their capital, is basically admitting that they don’t think Israel is a “real country.”
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posted on
12/27/2017 4:12:00 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Olog-hai
Tell a lie often enough and people will start to believe it.
(paraphrase of Joseph Goebbels)
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posted on
12/27/2017 4:29:28 PM PST
by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt)
Comment #11 Removed by Moderator
To: vooch
You calling the UN legitimate undermines your credibility.
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posted on
12/27/2017 4:46:39 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
I’ve never heard anyone say that North Korea wasn’t a country.
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posted on
12/27/2017 4:47:34 PM PST
by
eclecticEel
("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
To: eclecticEel
Well, this is a first. The context of Israel not being a real country is what makes it absurd.
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posted on
12/27/2017 4:49:07 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: vooch
Not to mention, Israel did; the Arabs never did, calling it a “nakba”. Who are you learning history from?
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posted on
12/27/2017 4:49:46 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: Olog-hai
I have multiple Israeli stamps in my passport but I'm not sure I have any from France even though I was more recently in Paris than anywhere in Israel.
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/27/2017 5:12:07 PM PST
by
ml/nj
To: Olog-hai
Stupid of them to not call North Korea a ‘real country’ - forced them to pull all of their magazines.
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posted on
12/27/2017 5:30:42 PM PST
by
BobL
(I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
To: Olog-hai
The new France, result of an influx from countries just to the south of it for a couple of hundred years.
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posted on
12/27/2017 7:21:35 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: Olog-hai
I wonder why the French hate Jews? Because they excel at anything that requires an intellect?
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posted on
12/27/2017 8:13:43 PM PST
by
Crucial
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