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France: Iran plays stabilizing role in Middle East
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Published: 31.07.06, 13:47
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61. PFRANTZ
Cato the Younger ,   USA   (07.31.06)
1.GALLIA DELENDA EST 2. GALLIA DELENDA EST 3. GALLIA DELENDA EST
62. It can't be WWIII
Yossi ,   Canada   (07.31.06)
until the French surrender!
63. Iran - A stabilising influence?
T S ,   London   (07.31.06)
Im wondering about the French FM's mental stability. For almost every analyst who follows Irans politics its only a question of - to what degree Iran will create global mayhem and sooner rather than later. 1. Irans greater territorial ambitions are well documented. First to create an Iranian Empire in the form of a crescent from Iran through Shia Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Jordan. 2. To 'acquire' Bahrein, Kuwait and secure control over Hormuz. 3. To export Shia Islam to Egypt, Turkey, UAE and S Arabia. 4. To expand and exert their sphere of influence North to the Southern Soviet States. 5. By means of nuclear blackmail dictate terms to compliant and weak EU nations particularly France and Spain. 6. Their first step could start as early as the end of August 2006. There is now increasing expectation that Iran in defiance will test explode a fission device acquired from either Pakistan, an ex Soviet bomb or more likely from N Korea.
64. # 49 U ARE RIGHT U UNDERSTOOD FRENCH MENTALITY
Real Zionist   (07.31.06)
65. to #51 : please go back in school...
Cyril ,   France   (07.31.06)
"They have never occupied a country and they never send their soldiers to mass kill children" You should tell this to the 250 000 iraqi people dead during the Iran-Iraq war... You're right is a great country, a great cvilization where gay people are hung in public, where women are stoned to death if they are unfaithful to their husband... Its what we called the Iranian-dream isnt it ?
66. #38
Alex ,   Israel   (07.31.06)
Hey, Faisal. How many hindus did you kill on the Mumbai train?
67. France is an axis of Evil
Mark ,   Usa   (07.31.06)
They support Iran.
68. french government - lowest level
bruno ,   bouxwiller, france   (07.31.06)
the french government is a shame for the whole world. they never leave an opportunity to take a stand against Israel. They do it in such a manner that even the palestinians are not able to beat.
69. FRANCE ADMIRES IRAN WHO DECLARES THEY'LL WIPE OUT ISRAEL
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (07.31.06)
Hamas and Hizbullah fight the proxy war against Israel for Syria and Iran. United with Lebanon whose Prime Minister Siniora on Sunday, July 30, 2006, publicly thanked terrorist Hizbullah for its sacrifices in the war against Israel. Iran's proxy, Hizbullah, ruthlessly uses the Lebanese civilian population as human shields to protect rocket launching teams - setting up rockets and other weapons in basements of apartment blocks, schools and mosques. Iran's proxy, Hizbullah shoots from inside mosques, hospitals and schools in south Lebanon. Where is France's condemnation for these evil tactics??? Global jihadists, Iran's proxy, Hizbullah's evil goal is the murder of every Jew. On October 22, 2002, Nasrallah told Lebanon's Daily Star: "If the Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them world wide." Images show Iran's proxy, Hizbullah using high-density residential areas to launch rockets: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html
70. Vive la France!!!
Horst Wessel ,   USA   (07.31.06)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a great and wise leader.
71. Give France Back to Germany
Jeremy S. Slavin ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (07.31.06)
The solution is, of course, to give France back to Germany. America, Britain, and Canada can keep Normandy because they fought for it so hard and so bravely in 1944. Corsica and Brittany would gain independence, Monaco would no longer be under the yoke of Paris, and the overseas departments would be given the choice of German statehood or independence. But the rest, well...give it back to Deutschland. The Germans were quite capable of absorbing East Germany after the Cold War. It was difficult, but they did it. There might be some...resistance...but it would work out, I think. And the Germans could teach the former French a thing or two about fighting anti-Semitism.
72. FRANCE .... SHAME ON YOU !!!!!
Lionel B. ,   Paris   (07.31.06)
PLEASE BE SURE THAT MANY PEOPLE ARE ASHAMED TO BE FRENCH FOLLOWING THE COMMENTS OF MINISTER PHILIPPE DOUSTE-BLAZY IN BEIRUT REGARDING IRAN .... IT"S A SHAME, HOW CAN A MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT CAN BRING SUPPORT AND CREDIT TO A REGIME THAT OPENELY SAYS THEY WANT THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL !! JEWS OF FRANCE WAKE UP AND LIVE THIS COUNTRY WHERE YOU ARE PAYING MILLIONS OF EUROS OF TAXES AND WHO IS SO AFRAID OF A CIVIL WAR WITH THE ARABS THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT ANYTHING ..... PLEASE PLEASE LET WAKE UP !!! ISRAEL VIVRA! ISRAEL VAINCRA!
73. What color is the sky on his planet?
Eric ,   Holmdel, NJ   (07.31.06)
The only impact Iran has on the current situation is their control over their Hezbolah armed forces fighting Israel; Hezbolah is no more a Lebanese institution than Hebron is a part of Japan.
74. #43
J.R. ,   NYC, USA   (07.31.06)
It's always amusing when a person like you begins calling Israel a terrorist state and facist etc. This from the country whose governement stoked the genocide in Rwanda, and currently enslaves nearly a third of Africa for its own selfish preservation of its long faded power. Your own massacres and genocides over the years from SE Asia, to Algeria to Rwanda are all well known and well documented and dwarf any mistakes Israel has made by 10,000 times over. Considering you treat your Muslims worse then just about any country in the world, there is a delicious irony in your snotty comments. Get your own house in order before criticising others, hypocrite.
75. #38 60 un resolutions whoa!!!!!!!!!
Jake ,   CT. United States   (07.31.06)
Dear Faisal Those 60 or more UN resolutions were made in the UN because the Arabs have OIL and most of the world body would sell its soul to appease them They are so blatantly biased and one sided. Try reading them ! I keep forgetting about how the Israelis were busy hijacking planes and setting off bombs in world capitols (sarc-off). Try picking on China in regard to Tibet or maybe Sudan and Darfur....
76. to #51 - Iran is indeed a great nation
Dan ,   Tel-Aviv   (07.31.06)
Not like the French - the worst cruel, greedy, arrogant children mass-murdering colonialists ever (beside the Belgian, maybe). The Americans bring at least Mc Donald to the Arabs. Did the French bring them some grenouille farcie au camembert? No. They stole arab ressources and manpower to build themselves a nice socialist country where they can work as less as possible. And now they are going to invade Lebanon again, feel good about themselves, and get the exclusivity for all the big rebuilding contracts, like the american in Iraq - while they distribute hypocritical advices to everybody else. I see Iran as a great nation. Cultivated, ambitious and threatening. I respect it as my enemy more than any other entity in the region. That's why - like most Israelis - I will never let it get a stabilizing role in the ME.
77. Appeasement, capitulation, collaboration
Richard ,   Paris   (07.31.06)
This is the french way to deal with terrorist.
78. NEWS FLASH!!!
oferdesade ,   israel   (07.31.06)
we've just found out that French FM Douste-Blazy is actually Michael Jackson in disguise. Think of it: you never see the two of them in the same place and at the same time. when one of them dissapears, the other one mysteriously appears to save the day. and they're both very, very scaringly wierd...
79. THE GALL OF THE GAULS!
Laura ,   London, England   (07.31.06)
How surprising! The French, as de Gaulle once said to Ben-Gurion: "have no friends, only interests" - as they proved with their collusion with their Nazi 'occupiers'. Their self-interest knows no bounds and the rest of the 'schmuck' Europeans have colluded in French self-aggrandisment and islamicisation of Europe. I look forward to seeing Paris burn.
80. Linda: France must want to wipe out Israel as well
Mark ,   USA   (07.31.06)
France is finally making a truthful statement. They almost always lie.
81. 1814AD
Boris ,   Haifa, Israel   (07.31.06)
French govt. is just eager to lick anything lickable in order to get the part of electorate to vote for them next time... and here is just one more example. As for the people of France - I don't inderstand them voting for such eeer.. say, substance. Were British right talking about red and brown uniforms?
82. France is a modern day Sodom
Mark ,   USA   (07.31.06)
Sodom was destroyed. France is destroying itself by embracing militant Islam. Adieu France
83. The French and the USA Democrats
Jim ,   NYC/USA   (07.31.06)
Both the French and th USA Democrats (liberals) have two things in cowards...1. Both are totally corrupt and 2. Both are cut and run COWARDS. This time in history demands that strong men and women, stand up and do what cowardly corrupt politicians and liberal losers cant do (because they have no spines)...FIGHT! I believe we are nearing a point in time when the strong will have to eat their weak. I believe the liberals in all over the globe are coming very close to the people rearing up and killing them, because their failed policies have pushed us to this point. In historic WAR, there is no balance, one nationsa total overwhelming force eats the other nations LUNCH. There is no peace settlement, there is only the spoils of WAR, those who dont like it get exiled or executed...it is how every nation except Palestine and Lebanon have formed. You may not like it (and if you dont its probably because you are a coward or weak)...but it works.
84. 78
owen g .crakpot ,   upper mortuania   (07.31.06)
not fair. no alleged pedophile has ever done anything quite so dastardly as to deserve having this rank and file of poor tortured souls compared to a (ptui) french politician
85. The French are stupid
Aghast!   (07.31.06)
France has proven itself to be inept at foreign policy. The idiots thought that Hitler would never harm france since she was germany's most important trading partner. Ignore those twits
86. A Joke
Stefan ,   New York   (07.31.06)
There is more international outrage at Israel for the wrongful deaths than at Terrorists for 9/11 or than the Madrid , Mumbai & London bombings. Simply put, the death of Americans and Israeli's is quietly celebrated in certain E.U. countries. France panders to Iran. Deutschland releases Hamadi for good behavior. Hezbollah is revered by the U.N. And yes, Iran will get the bomb. The inmates are running the asylum. Self hating, guilt-mongering westerners are delighting in our (their) destruction.
87. it is not a civilisation war
CERVANTES ,   madrid   (07.31.06)
pleasze, stop tthis mess against palestina, against lebanon, against iran, against francde ; against world ! Bekause if You try to give lessons of civilisation mejor than an other, then you should be obligad to act con good universally good rules. 1rst imposible 2ndo muchisimas muchisimas mentiras from your spokermen&women
88. Do not allow French peackeepers in Lebanon
Mark ,   USA   (07.31.06)
Israel needs to recall their ambassador to France.
89. Poor defeated french.
Observer   (07.31.06)
As their recent history shows, French government always does shit!!!
90. # 66 its funny of u alex
Faisal ,   Hyderabad India   (07.31.06)
How much do u know abt india alex , u think only hindus were killed in that train bombing in mumbai, Do urs hate home work against all muslims . Terrorism is also problem of muslim countries .. u should re check abt all this ... and first of all stop urs this spreading of hate. Urs and many like u biggest problem that u think that u r GOD CHOOSEN RACE and for u rest humans blood is nothing .. Deal with the particular problem Hizbullah first . then try to open more fronts .. Use brain first
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