Given the fact that Sharon made the comment in a speech to an American group, a speech designed to encourage American Jews to emigrate to Israel, the French are whining a bit too much.
Even if the audience was not specifically French, it was a public statement, not a private remark. Frankly, is it a antisemitic or anti-Isreali attack to say that, at the very least, PM Sharon should have worded this more carefully ?
And if President Chirac had made a similar swipe at the US, even before a non-US audience, I respectfully believe I'd still be hearing about it, only people would say "outrage" instead of "whine".