Bonjour Alliot-Marie. A question si vous plais? How is it that your eloquent words of " all parties must respect their obligations under international law to protect civilians from the effects of conflict" - was not recorded when the Hamas were blowing up Israeli civilians since the first Intifada. Or when the bodies of innocent children, who by the way were civilians, howbeit Israeli civilians, were found some years ago ripped apart. These little boys were under 10 years of age. They had disappeared whilst going for a walk. (Check the archives of israeli papers) I have never heard of any Israeli, no matter how fanatic, behaving such as this. Alliot-Marie, Madame Defence Minister, with all due repect, your statement is hollow and further more you state that the Israeli soldiers should be freed, however you neglect to use the term - "unharmed". . It is such hypocrisy. Your country of France has never meant what it said, you never cried out against the Hamas or Hezbollah. Your President slams Israel, but has no back bone to support Israel in its right to defend itself. Hamas do not recognise the Geneva Convention. Count how many of the Hamas live in France, travel freely to France, meet in France. France wants to recoup its history in the Middle East and will do anything politically to achieve its end. France is an openly anti-semitic country and has made no apology for its Vichy involvement during the Second World War. Tell me then Madame Defence Minister, what have you done about those incidences of anti-semitism in your own country France. Did you not say that civilians should be protected from the effects of conflict?? Then defend the Israeli civilians. Defend the Jewish citizens of Paris, Marseilles and the rest of your country, make restitution for all of those French Jews who perished during the War, who were betrayed by the French government. Then you will surely be poitically correct when you venture into this arena. But don't cease the moment for your own glory and speak empty words for the world media. We all know you don't mean anything you state. Rina

You are really good guys. We like you. But, after all those cars the Arabs torched last year, you still haven't learned who we are dealing with? Come one! Unless you stand up against these guys, they will devour you.

as french jews we have fed up of the hypocrisys of our leaders UMP or socialists all are to fishing about vote arabics muslims in France estimated at 10-15 millions .. as french jews I can tell you many frenchs supporting israel against arabs dictatoships ; same french rightwing love israel I knows many of them !! zal for all israelis died cause by hezbollah or hamas-fatah-djihad- .. Its like russia poutine he gave lesson to israel but this dictator no forget he have a hard resistance of extremist muslims in tchéchénia , so then israel must sent fucking his bastard of poutine-chirac-kofi anane etc..., firstly israel wants the security of his citizens before all !! Hope after that than now our israelis government should change his stratégy and stop to give..give lands to our ennemys and will change and remake a strategy possession of lands for the security of israel , so barak 'avoda , bibi's likoud , sharon' s likoud and olmert s kadima all have did a biggest errors to deal with our ennemy in oslo -wye etc.. for give them our territory historical and biblical jewish to the terrorist of fatah in oslo from rabin-pérés or in south gaza by sharon to hamas indirectly and barak when his escaped from south lebanon has put israel in unsecurity with let in the dangerous hezbollah set up in south lebabon , controled by iran to sent kassams rockets to israel -naharya-hadera-sfat-etc soon tel aviv for the leftist understand well the security of settlements in judea samaria and in gaza or israel must return there and must take the control full of philadelphia road in rafah for the well and security in south israel !!! israels needs a strong and hard governement leader as avigdor liebermann him will be hardest with arabs in expelled all from israel-judea samaria and gaza to jordania and egypt !! am israel hai

maybe they can get Zidane to headbutt all the terrorists for us. Please France, help us. Help us france! You are the beacon of moral clarity for all of us, dont ya know?

I will always be with all of you I worked when I was young bringing out morrocans jews from morroco to gibraltar and the sending them via malaga to Haifa. God bless you all if there is anything I can do please let me know abraham

isn't france the country that recently said it would counter terrorist activity on it's soil with nuclear weapons? Isn't that a bit disproportional?

My Turkish brother thank you so much for your post. I agree 100% with you. There is only one Israel in the world, and I am sick of seeing it under constant attack. Israel has the right to defend itself. From a French Christian goy.

Does anyone really care what they say? Most of them are actually nice people who have no understanding whatsoever of what it is like to live in an environment such as Israel. They just live their relaxed, pampered, undisturbed, lazy, 35-hour week lives but now and again they get on their high horse to dictate morals to others. Don't take them seriously!!!!

Israel should totaly implement whatever EU member countries are telling to do. Any signs of Israeli "free-thinking" are unacceptable. Don't forget Israel is based on the british land that belongs to british people under mandate!!!

I knew there was a Muslim voice of reason somewhere out there. I am sure there are more but they are afraid. france wouldn't know how to defend itself and has always relied on someone else to defend her. How could she understand Israel defending itself?

I would like someone to tell me what would constitute a proportionate act of war? Should the IDF capture a few terrorists and offer them for trade? Does anyone believe this would end the situation? By not disarming Hizbollah, the Lebanese government is responsible for what happens. This cannot be a tit for tat situation. The Israeli response must be sufficiently strong to make support for Hizbollah amonf the Lebanese impossible.

The existence of the Israeli people, the Jews, and the children of Israel is "disproportionate" in terms of the thousands of years of persecution under which they have maintained their existence. These nations are angry and frustrated that they have tried to erase the Jewish people and have failed. When will they awaken to the truth? When will they give up trying because their mission has failed!

Here is a list of racists: -Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin -EU spokeswoman Emma Udwin -French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie -Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy Why???? I cannot recollect when they came against the terrorist attacks against civilian Israeli population and blamed Syria, Lebanon, and the remainder Arab countries for sponsoring and maintaining terrorists organizations. So who are they to come now to public, twist the truth and blame Israel? Humm? These countries are in the top of racism, and of course, their interest is purely to keep on selling militar equipment to arab countries, which is widely known to happen, as they are against Israel. Perhaps they should focus on their own problems and let Israel focus on theirs. If they were suffering the same problems with terrorists as Israel suffers daily, wouldn't they react and protect their civilian population?

First of all screw France, they have zero importance here. Also Russia would do a lot more than what the IDF is now doing. Take a look at Grozny which they leveled. What it comes down to is the ingrown hatred of Jews in French and Russian society.

This was french naval ensign... http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr~mon.html#pwe

THE DAY IS COMING WHEN THEY WILL WISH THEY HAD SUPPORTED ANTI- TERRORISM EVERYWHERE. IT WILL COME TO THEIR COUNTRIES. THESE FANATICS HAVE NO MORALS. ONLY TO IMPOSE THEIR WILL ON OTHERS BY ANY MEANS.

Begining in 2002, I came upon an idea for peace in the middle east: Give France to the Palestinians! Israel could arm the Palestinians with sticks and stones (weapons that they seem comfortable with), and send them to the Southern Coast of France. France's surrender would be swift, the Palestinians who already make up about 25% of the French population could rest easy on good land presently going to waste in the hands of the French. Voila! A solution that relieves Israel's problem, and the Palestinian's problem, and perhaps the the worst backstage instigator of worldwide problems (the French) would be a subject people to the Palestinians who at least will actually fight for something, no matter how futile. We've been boycotting France for about a decade now here in Texas.

What do you expect from a culture and nation that exerted more of its will fighting Disney World and McDonalds than the Nazis

Your country has every right to insure the safty of it's citizens. I think that the country has shown remarkable restraint in its fight. If another country had invaded our country it would and in fact should be declared an act of war. I hope for the safe return of your soldiers in the near future.

What's "disproportionate" depends on what side of the missile you're looking at. Israel's leaders must ignore these moe-rons and defend Israelis from attacks by their enemies. They weren't elected to monitor world opinion, though they seem to think they were.

Abdul, Thank you very much for your love and support. You are always welcome to visit us here in Israel. I would be honoured personally to host you and be your tour guide. All the best.

in france a laïc country we don't think regarding the people who live in israel that their are jews but that they are israelien !!!!! and as we hate extremist in any religion , we hate people who make a war .... also french people know that israelien gouvernement can capture minister from an other free country but make a war because stupid terrorist capture 2 soldiers .... I think you are a fascist country ....

As a French citizen I do not support my government who always back the Arabs. I am neither Jewish nor Moslim but in this dark Israel has the right to defend itself. I want to say to Israel that I support you and you have to win this war.

If Chechnyan rebels were to undertake a similar operation (kidnapping) and be succesfull.... Is it just me, or does the word HYPOCRISY come to mind...?

I live in the middle East surrounded by Backwardness and Barbarism: Hizbollah and Hamas should be destroyed... END OF THE STORY. I'm half/half (Mother is Jew)... May Adonai bless all efforts towards PEACE....

What is a little boy doing on this site? go play in the street or something. Leave the postings for people who know what the hell they'e talking about... Merci!!!

beyond the ethnic slurs you are using freely and you should be ashamed of, a few facts : France has condemned all the terrorists acts against Israël, including the last attack and has refused to give visas to the hamasniks. By the way, the word ''proportionate'' is also used by the US, it is a usual term in international law : your comments show your ignorance more than everything else. According to a recent poll published by the Pew Institute, an american institution, the french are more pro-jewish than the americans...