France

French freedom of speech: Long live!

by Haitham Sabbah March 26, 2008

French official sacked for anti-Israeli diatribe PARIS (AFP) — A French senior civil servant has been sacked for publishing a violent anti-Israeli diatribe on a web site, the interior ministry said. Bruno Guigue, deputy prefect of the southwestern town of Saintes, wrote in an online column this month that Israel was “the only state where [...]

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Sarkozy’s love affair with Nazionism

by Khalid Amayreh March 15, 2008

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to select Israel as guest of honor at the International Book Fair (salon Due Livre) in Paris underscores his government’s obscene embrace of Israel’s manifestly criminal policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, including apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Indeed, hosting Shimon Peres only one week after the Israeli Wehrmacht murdered in [...]

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