Posted on 01/12/2015 9:54:55 PM PST by Nachum
There was one world leader who was out of step with the rest of political elite during yesterday's theatrical procession of world leaders for French unity and for press freedom (even as the bulk of them engage in prosecution of freedom of speech across their own nations): Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In fact, as Reuters reports, he managed to "ruffle a few feathers while taking part in the "Charlie Hebdo" rally in Paris on Sunday" because this was an event his office initially said he would not be attending following a specific request form French president Hollande not to come to Paris, but ultimately ended up participating in much to the Chagrin of the French president.
As Reuters further reports, "a video posted on Facebook, the news footage mockingly set to the Looney Tunes cartoon music, showed Netanyahu maneuvering his way to the front of the rally with the help of several bodyguards, allowing him to be photographed arm-in-arm with other leaders, including French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Those pictures were quickly posted on Netanyahu's Twitter feed, while the banner on his Facebook page was changed to a photograph of him in the front row, shoulder-to-shoulder with Hollande, Merkel, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and EU leaders Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk.
Not shown in the picture was Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who was standing alongside Tusk, six feet (two meters) from Netanyahu. The two broke off peace talks last April and tensions between them have risen since, with Netanyahu accusing Abbas of inciting violence against Israelis.
The irony is that neither Netanyahu nor Abbas initially planned to be in Paris.
What happened is that according to sources in Netanyahu's office said that in a phone
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That is an amazing photo. Bibi looks like he is making a fist, and his bodyguards are trying to hold him back or calm him down. I wonder what he heard to make him so obviously livid.
In a war between France and Israel, my money would be on Israel.
Left side of photo, third row back w/ long auburn hair. I’d hit it.
Go, Bibi!
Animosity between Israel & France goes back to late 1967 when Charles DeGaulle cut off spare parts sales for the IAF’s Mirage & Mystere fighter jets.
Israel massively kicking Arab butt in the Six Day War has always rankled the French. Reminds them of 1940.
He is feet away from evil....an evil just like Hitler..no pun directed towards Merkel....but Abbas is an evil SOB...and there stands Israel...Abbas was hoping he wasn’t there to get more money from Europe, that is not there, to aid their cause of survival....since the Palestinians don’t produce anything...only consume!
What a joke. An anti-terrorism “march” and in the front row is Abu Mazen, financier for the Munich Massacre.
I saw that N. Sarkozy and his wife, Carla, were there. They are in the second or third row back!
I think it’s Carla Bruni Sarkozy! She’s standing next to her husband in the 3rd row!
Yes. You go, Bibi!
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