Free Republic

(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...