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France denounces Netanyahu's Jerusalem 'forever' vow
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Published: 22.05.09, 16:21
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1. I guess, Desagneaux didn't say Hallel this moning
David ,   Montreal, Canada   (05.22.09)
This Jew thinks that Paris should be made into an international city. The French have less right to it than the Jews to Jerusalem. As Rav Goren Z"TL said: L'Shanna HaZEH B'Yerushalyim Chag Sameach V'Shabbat Shalom
2. You should split Jerusalem peacefully
John S ,   Houston USA   (05.22.09)
I think that is what the Europeans and the Arabs should have thought to themselves before Israel was forced to go to war to protect itself. If they want it back so badly. . . as Mr Heston says in the US. . . you can pry it from my cold dead hands.
3. Paris should be divided
Daniel ,   Washington DC USA   (05.22.09)
Let's divide Paris and turn half of it into International European City and leave half French. The Old City of Jerusalem was predominantly Jewish for thousands years. It was conquered by Jordan in 1948. Jerusalem is part of the Jewish psyche. It is not the same for the Arabs. While the "international Community" does not recognize the city as Israel's capital, that is shear audacity. Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people even when Israel did not exist as a Jewish State. Perhaps Israel should move it's embassies to other cities and not recognize capitals. But interestingly enough the USA DOES recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. It has voted to move it's embassy to Jerusalem. So France, when you decide to divide your capital, let's talk about dividing Israel's then.
4. Oh puhleez!!! Bibi is right....
Andy ,   ramat hasharon   (05.22.09)
to set this as his initial position. He is also right to not declare walking in the door that the Palestinians will have a state handed to them. These are all negotiating points that can be changed later. I'm all for what he is saying, and if he about faces later, well that's what negotiating is all about. I'm sick of all this DEMANDING on the Palestinian side. The most hilarious yet: Syria's demand that we agree to fork over the Golan before they even sit down at the table. F...that! Negotiating with arabs is like talking to a wall sometimes.
5. Let him eat his frog legs and keep quiet
Avraham ,   Newcastle   (05.22.09)
Who is Desagneaux anyway? He must watch his own country, as the Muslems are taking it over !
6. What the French think
Sarah ,   New York City, USA   (05.22.09)
is entirely predictable. It is also entirely irrelevant.
7. since when does france get to decide what another country
usa   (05.22.09)
chooses as its capital? the nerve of the arrogant french! let's divide paris and give "east paris" back to germany, shall we? let's watch more newsreel footage of the frenchman weeping as the nazis marched through the arc de triomphe. When will the french ever admit how it felt to have invaders grab their capital city and afford the same understanding and empathy to those Jews who were disenfranchised from their capital for 2,000 years?
8. The French? Oh. They used to be somebody once.
Gideon Reader   (05.22.09)
Sheesh! What a douchebag? Another Frank 'n fool heard from. Howzabout paris, the Eternal city of Light, and rats, be designated the pissoir of Western Europe, and the Armpiteers have their capitol in say Drancy or Alsace. Hell that way it would be closer to the German border if the Squareheads ever decide to invde again.
9. Free at last
Josephus ,   USA   (05.22.09)
Isael did not "occupy" eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967. Israel LIBERATED the city and reunited it with the Jewish State of Israel and capital of the Israelites for all Jews
10. France is still at it
RayS ,   USA   (05.22.09)
In the tradition of Petain and DeGaul...no friend of Israel.
11. France
Ariel Ben Yochanan ,   Kfar Tapuah, Efraim,   (05.22.09)
B"H Maybe it is France that prejudicing the outcome of the Middle East peace process by declaring that Jerusalem would forever not be Israel's undivided capital.
12. Israel finally has someone with the guts to lead.
Lemmings Hotline ,   sd ca   (05.22.09)
13. Jerusalem
Ilana   (05.22.09)
If the entire world proclaimed that 2+2=5 , I would still know the truth! France can shove it you know where. I proclaim that Paris is also a moslem capital and I will slam them if they say otherwise(The absolute cheek of the french-hah!)!!!
14. Jerusalem
mark ,   israel   (05.22.09)
Mr PM I believe that you should give this serious consideration... for at least 30 seconds and then repeat it word for word, if possible in French
15. the French do not vote in Israeli elections.We do!
Golan ,   SL   (05.22.09)
And we the Israeli public LIKE what netanyahu said. Kol HaKavod! All those terrible years of Barak-Sharon-Olmert have done nothing to advance harmony and quiet to Israel. It only fostered expensive gestures on our side to an enemy who shot at us with rockets and bombed our homes. After two wars of no choice we know that the International community is and it makes us shudder to realize that it had not changes since WWII. We are not your Czechoslovakia we will not be your Poland.
16. FM Comment
Green Gene ,   Great Neck, USA   (05.22.09)
The French FM is doing the same thing that he accuses the Israeli PM of doing. However, consider the French FM's audacity of giving a city with undeniable Jewish roots and the one city that the Jews Cherish to another people.
17. I knew this would come, but we can laugh at their remarks.
Efi ,   Washinton DC   (05.22.09)
18. WASNT IT ISRAELI IN 1947 UNTIL JORDAN MADE WAR ?
..........DACON9   (05.22.09)
WASNT IT ISRAEL FOR 3 ,000 YEARS? THIS TIME YOU ARABS BE PREPARED FOR THE 'ONE GD'' TO HIT YOU HARD.. YOUR FINAL OUR THE XTIANS FINAL WAR OUR FINAL WAR AND THOSE OF YOU THAT HARMED ISRAEL WILL PERISH AND THOSE OF YOU THAT BLESSED ISRAEL WILL SURVIVE
19. WE DON'T RECOGNIZE PARIS AS THE
MICHAEL   (05.22.09)
CAPITAL OF FRANCE. I PROPOSE GIVING PARIS TO SAUDI ARABIA. WHY NOT? THE EUROPEANS DIDN'T WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE JEWIS H PEOPLE IN EUROPE SO THEY TRIED EXTERMINATING US. NOW THEY CAN'T HELP BUT TORMENT US IN OUR OWN LEGITIMATE CITIES AND LAND. WILL EUROPE EVER BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES?! APPARENTLY NOT.
20. another French Foreign minister...
eddie ,   london UK   (05.22.09)
It was a predecessor of this one, Edouard Deladier who said the same thing about the Sudetenland, and wanted to hand it over to the Nazis before WW2. So noone should pay much attention to what the French say, especially when it concerns the Jews' safety.
21. no end to insidious Arab ambitions
Arn ,   Yehud, Israel   (05.22.09)
The Arabs usurped the Jews holiest site on the face of this earth and said "No. It is now holy ONLY to us." So atop the Temple Mount they built their Dome of the Rock.. Now with biblical Jerusalem the Eternal City of the Jewish people they would do the same - "deciding" that Jerusalem must belong to them. And as far as the world not recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of israel, let me remind the French FM that the UN never recognized the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) as Jordanian territory. Fact!
22. It truly is a good start
Modest Jerusalemite ,   jerusalem, Israel   (05.22.09)
Whenever we can get a response from a white flag member of the French gov't that is so angry its a good thing.
23. Mind your own business
Gab ,   Montreal, Canada   (05.22.09)
French? who the hell are you to decide the futur of the Jewish nation, you made enough massacres and deportation toward our people during ww2, who gives you any right to talk about our nation, ISRAEL belong only to Jewish people, and Jerusalem (God Bless) is the ETERNAL capital of the Jewish state.
24. By Hook or Crook, Israel will Capitulate
Nour ,   Palestine Libre   (05.22.09)
Besides, the bulk of Israeli public opinion is in favor of returning East Jerusalem to its rightful owners (Arab Palestinians). Bibi claims Muslims have freedom of worship in Jerusalem. This is a blatant lie, Palestinians of the West Bank aren't even allowed to access Jerusalem, let alone worship. Netanyahu is a warmongering cretin who doesn't have the interest of Israelis in mind.
25. Hey Sarah, I see you haven't...
Nour ,   Palestine   (05.22.09)
woken up from your coma yet. When you decide to join the party at World Central, I might save you a drink. East Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine and the Palestinian Arabs. Wake up honey.
26. Irrelevent argument
Frank ,   Canada   (05.22.09)
A Jewish Jerusalem is an obstacle to a negociated peace only for those who don't want a real peace: Arabs and the French.
27. France is an obstacle to peace
Frank ,   Canada   (05.22.09)
The French support to irrelevent solutions is an obstacle to peace. The French don't want peace, shame on them.
28. Sorry, God doesn't like takeovers
John ,   Boise, Idaho, USA   (05.22.09)
It looks like the French Ambassador hasn't read his Bible. Jesus declared Jerusalem "The City of the Great King" while quoting Psalm 48:2 in Matthew 5:37. Remember, Kind David carried the head of Goliath into the city (I Samuel 17:54).
29. jewish jerusalem-- the Bible does say israel is jewish
augustine e johnson ,   Birmingham-usa   (05.22.09)
it looks to me that in the Bible that Israel is jewish-- even an expanded israel in the book of Ezekiel in the last chapters-- i have no problem with jerusalem being jewish Forever- the same Bible says the followers of the jewish Yeshua who claimed to be the messiah of Israel can have heaven -- in summary Israel can have jerusalem forever according to the Book==== shalom=====augustine e johnson-usa
30. how many more will suffer...
avramele   (05.22.09)
for a saduccee dream....
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