Posted on 01/12/2005 1:16:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
(IsraelNN.com) Robert Menard, the head of the Paris-based "watchdog" organization Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF; Reporters Without Borders), was in Beirut this week for a solidarity visit with the television personnel of the Hizbullah terrorist group.
The reason for the supportive RSF visit with Hizbullah was the French government's recent decision to ban broadcasts of the group's Al-Manar television station.
Rather than a ban on the terror organization's broadcasts, Menard told As-Safir, a Lebanese daily, "we favor dialogue." Menard did, however, tell his interlocutors that he was opposed to the anti-Semitic broadcasts that led to the French decision in the first place, but that "outright closure is never the right method."
Do people really still get surprised and outraged by this? Haven't we known that the European press is anti-Israeli (as well as anti-American) for years? Par for the course (yawn).
The European left (and radical fringes of the American left) favors a secular entitlement state. The radical Islamists favor a theocratic slavery society.
Anti-Semitism has created the weirdest alliance in world history.
What a shocker.. A French group that's sympathetic to terrorists.. :|
And their sister group RWE (Reporters Without Ethics) of which the American U.S. msm is a member.
Everything old is new again.
[DRIPPING SARCASM]
Frenchmen showing "solidarity" with Arab terrorists. Who'd have thunk it? Just remember that there is no anti-Semitism in France. I know this because Jacques Chirac said it is so. [/END DRIPPING SARCASM]
France, 2005: "We favor dialogue."
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