Sarkozy campaign is to make palestinians fall in love with him. First was his suuport to unesco palestinian membership. Then the Zarco-Barry microphone affair. Forget to boycot french fries lol, they do not need advertising campaigns neither ynet talkback for this article :-) but is still a rendevouz, like it or not

Although Eddy may be unaware of it, UN Security Council resolution #446 stated that "the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity." Thus, Ma'aleh Adumim is not part of Israel from a legal viewpoint, which is what matters when issuing a passport. If Israel doesn't like this, it can withdraw from the UN. But as long as it remains a member, it must abide by its legally-binding resolutions, or at least not complain when other member countries do.

It boggles the mind, why would an Israeli criticize another Israeli, for standing up for Israel's legitimacy, and justify this preposterous behavior by the French? And who the hell are you to determine that such protest undermines Eddy's loyalty to France? So let me get this straight - being a patriotic Frenchman necessarily entails distoriting reality and blind favoring of the Palestinians on expense of Israel? Anything else makes you a traitor? You question Eddy's loyalty to France -I question your loyalty to Israel.

Over French colonies, but the abundant lies about our so-called occupation of our own lands. Care to tell why France occupies: Corsica, Bassas da India, Clipperton Island, Europa Island, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Glorioso Islands, Guadeloupe, Juan de Nova Island, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Réunion, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Tromelin Island, Wallis and Futuna.

One should response in kind. Consider renaming in official Israli documents a Montbéliard province - an illegally occupied German Württemberg. Also rename Roussillon, Les Landes, Alsace and Brittany, as illegally occupied Catalon, Basque, German and British territories. For those Paris centric bureaucrats, rename Paris into illegally occupied Roman land.

Is Ayalon's argument any less credible than the "Occupied Palestine" myth? Remind me please, which historical "Palestinian" settlement was located where Maale Adumim is today?

a grandfather goes for a walk in the old part of Tel Aviv with his grandson and says to him, "See this house, child? It was me who built it. And the road? That was me, too. And those are the trees I planted." Shocked, the child asks, "Grandpa, when you were young, were you an Arab?

The United Nations and all its members including the United States consider Ma'ale Adumim is illegally occupied land by Israel and cannot and will not be counted as part of Israel. Very soon the occupied lands will be called State of Palestine and those settleers reside in Palestine.

next time there's olim from Corsica, list their origin as Occupied Corsica.

Viva La france ! Dreyfus lives on ! Hypocrites !

The British were ousted from their occupation long ago, more than 60 years ago, in fact. The nation has been called Israel prior to that and ever since then.

What matters is French law, not Israeli claims. Just like the US case, what matters to the US Supreme Court is what US law controls, the Constitution or the President's (Bush's) power to decide. Israeli facts are highly not-relevant.

Nice, then I was born in: Netanya, occupied Canaan. Thankfully, I just regard myself as being born in Israel, Your post constitutes an unworkable situation.

Correction FIVE MILLION

Finally someone to set reality to those fundamentalist, brainwashed, illegal settlers.

Why don't you offer them some land in the vastness of central Australia? What with the British criminals from the convict ships having massacred most ot the Aboriginal population, there's plenty of room. And they probably have far more of a viable claim to Australasia than they do to Eretz Israel -- but they are your quintessential nomads, most coming from the Hejaz in the Western Arabian desert. They have no claim to any part of Eretz Israel. Although I have no problem giving them their viable state on the moon, and I thank you for that suggestion.

Yesssssssssssss !

A country may define laws which are relevant to itself, not to other countries. Recognition of borders between two foreign countries, is not a part of any country's law. It is a part of the country's foreign politics, or foreign policy. Therefore, Mr. Eddy here is merely protesting against his country's foreign policy. Just as you may protest America's foreign policy. What is "Israeli facts"? Either you agree with the facts presented, or you don't. If not, state a solid rebuttal, otherwise admit you cannot do it. Slogans fool no one.

....Obama back to eating chicken wings in mudville.

or occupied Moroccan territory. Israel should put this into the passports of anyone born in Paris

Yes, it is occupied Palestine. But then, there has never been a country named Palestine. Oh, wait. There was once a country named Palestine. It was named Palestine by the Romans. This Palestine was the JEWISH state. Ask any Roman. Palestine is the JEWISH state. But otherwise, there has never been any state or country named Palestine. We are the 99 percent. We are Occupying Palestine. Palestine is the Jewish State. Just one thing, we call it Israel now. But when ever anyone mentions Palestine, it is a JEWISH state. Maveen?

The "line" is from 1948, not 1967, and defines an armistice line, not a border. Somehow the fact the the invading anti-semites from Jordan managed to get that far is supposed to mean something?

Mark says, "Conquest is not sovereignty. Sovereignty to be determined by negotiations" Precisely. So the Jordanian conquest has no force, and it is no more "occupied" than Haifa.

Because of French pressure, American maps do not not call Macedonia by its own name. (Israeli ones do!) We Americans should push our country to recognize Macedonia by name. The Frence are a bunch of dispicable has-beens trying to oveme their irrelevence by bullying others.

This is really funny. Now this guy is upset, when everybody in the world knows this is occupy territory and Ma'ale Adumim is illegal under the Geneva Convention.