HARD HEADED REALISM IS REQUIRED. When we have to recognize that the Government of Israel bears part of the stalemate in the negotiations. However the major obstacle for peace is still the perception held by most Israelis that at the end of the day the Palestinians are not yet reconciled to peace with Israel as the Jewish nation state. Since the Arab went to war in 1948 to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state what is more natural and more fair than to ask as part of an historical reconciliation to accept what you tried many times to destroy , namely the Jewish state. The unwillingness of the Arab countries as well as the Palestinians to confront their own responsibility for their tragedy in 1948 is the major obstacle for mutual trust and peace.. To this day many Palestinians are opposed to reconciliation with Israel. No state of Palestine will ever exist unless the Palestinians acknowledge that Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people. The Gaza disengagement which resulted in making the south of the country a target by the Hamas, the withdrawal from Lebanon which resulted in making the north of the country less safe will not reassure the Israelis to accept a Palestinian state at the border of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. Regretfully successful peace negotiations are in all probability no going to happen any time soon and even if the mechanism of negotiations could be resurrected the chances for a success outcome are slim. This calls for a hard headed realism, is not only from the part of the contending parties but also on the part of the international community for patience, moderation and wisdom. Even if an agreement is signed tomorrow with Palestinians, it is certain that certain factions will continue terrorist attacks against Israel. The best that could be done presently is an interim agreement on borders, leaving the rest of the dispute for later. An israeli PEACE LOVER.

How the hell can Sarkozy even utter anything so asinine? Abbas was responsible for putting together the financing for the murders of the Israeli Olympic athletes and he was involved in the planning of the Achille Lauro hijacking...in addition to being on record as a Holocaust denier. So if this is Sarkozy's idea of a "statesman," he's probably delusional...or else he's sucking up to all those Muslims in his country.

This slime wouldn't give a damn if there was a Jewish state or wasn't one. I support PM Netanyahu's policies fully.

will bow to Islam and its followers in Frankarabia. Strange as it may seem to people, Marine Le Pen will be getting million of votes from all spectrum of french society. People in Frankarabia are fed up with lying politicians from the left and the right. People in Paristan,the real french one will vote Marine le Pen...her views may be extreme but she does not LIE and does not deviate from her beliefs. We know what she stands for. Sarkozy and his ministers will kiss arab butts to get elected. just like the lefties they would sell their mother to stay in power. NO to Palestine,we have enough muslims states in the world.

To those who are critical of Sarkozy´s remarks and I hope that he is honest about them. Israel as a Jewish state will be no different than Saudi Arabia. So come on, use your brains.

These people with half or part jewish ancestry are sometimes really big antisemites.

Soon there will be elections in France. There is a big Muslim electorate in France and Sarcozy needs their votes. He will say anything to get these votes.

self explanatory

The reason why the French can't fight: their country is made-up of all women...yeah, a bunch of girlie-men. Would please pass the lipstick....

Someone should remind the boob Sarkozy of this fact, and that Jews are an ethnicity as well as a religion. And that the official name for Israel in Hebrew, used by the UN,"Medinat Yisroel", translates to "State of the Jewish People". Abbas' refusal to recognize the Jewish State (a demand of the UN in 1947, which France voted for) is simply his way of reassuring his people that he is not actually recognizing Israel, but some imaginary country that the Arabs will create when they conquer it. Its time to deal the ever-duplicitous French out of the "peace process" - they have contributed nothing to it, and are unlikely to. And since Sarkozy thinks a "Jewish State" is ridiculous, ban him from setting foot in Israel until he either retracts his remark, or terminates the preferred status for the Catholic Church in France. France has been an enemy of Israel since it embargoed those fifty Mirages Israel paid for in 1967 (meanwhile selling hundreds to the Arabs at war with Israel).

sarkozy continues a tradition from wwll, of cowardice and not fighting theenemy directly. So now he contradicts himself and says jewish state recognition is silly. Who does thiscoward get along with?? Wel llike minded cowards or appeasers or both eg. olmert, livni, ramon , peres, beilin, ramon.. all the cowards of europe and israel hold hands as you prepare to pray 5x a day to allah as is sure to happen to europe with its fast growing arab population. and soon you can recite allah akbar as cher booth's sister does now that she has converted to islam. and you know that converting out of islam is punishable by death. Good luck.

So of course he is pandering to the influential Muslim vote and they accuse the Jews of having all the power!

My source is the Wikipedia not the French Government. If it is 10% then why should Sarkosy trifle with a 1% Jewish population in an country where Antisemitism is rife?

More than a million Arabs are living in Israel as Israeli citizens and have way more civil rights than any average Arab citizen of Saudi Arabia! The Arabs allow themselves to kill! The Arabs are not really crying when Arabs are killed by Arabs elsewhere! The Arabs are Dancing on the streets, when Jews are killed! The Arabs are burning Israeli and U.S. flags, if Israelis kill one of their leading terrorists in return! What you are writing, Haider, is an excellent example for "double standard"!

Are we back to the times, when the majority says what is right and what is wrong? So we can elect a leader who says that it is right to eject the Roma from France under violation of European law and under violation of intl. law and everybody says: "Right! Sarkozy, fuck the gipsies!" And when Sarkozy or Erdogan are ranting against the Jews, everybody says: "Right! Fuck the Jews!" And if a great leader shouts out: "Do you want total war?" People shout out: "Heil! Heil! Heil!" Justice is something complicated and actually an oxymoron. Never forget: Israel is a successor state of the Ottoman Empire and in the process of partitioning the former colonies into new states, the Arabs got 650 times as much territory as Jews. The Arabs killed and displaced Jews and the world forgot about 1.000.000 displaced Jews! Israel solved the Jewish refugee problem and the Arabs didn't lift a finger for their refugees! By the way: It wasn't us Jews who made these stateless Arabs homeless and stateless. It was the Arabs, fighting wars in violation of intl. law who caused the refugee problem.

Basques in Southwestern France, Greecs in Southeastern France, the rest is a Mix of Keltic people/the Gauls, and the Franks, From Germany from whom France has its name. To call France France is therefore a Cilly thing, since the Franks is in Minority !. Arn.Sweden.

which requires the citizens to know and speak French, and all advertisements, websites, and even most curriculums be in FRENCH?? They justify this as a way to save their culture from being over-run by those "silly Americans". Yet, it's silly to speak of Israel as the Jewish homeland?? First, it's our human right for our State to be a Jewish State. Second, unlike in France, the multi-cultural citizens of Israel are almost fully-integrated, there are no ghettos as in France, and the rights of minorities are protected by law. With all of those mechanisms in place, Sarkozy, the real question is - WHY would you even be concerned with Israel being a Jewish State? My guess would be France's historical appeasement of Arabs, especially Arafat and his fat, usurping wife Suha. If Arabs aren't running away with billions of $$$ to Saudi Arabia, they're running away to France.

sources to verify if these statements are indeed attributable to Sarkozy before we start the name-calling, shall we?

I don't like or need Bibi, but Sarkozy's table is French and our's is Jewish. France has it's minorities, Israel has it's minorities. Will the upcoming Palestinian State have minorities? Or will all of the Jews be expelled?

...and just because you (#13) say that that is "what the rest of the world thinks" makes it so?

Faced with their own existential threats will go after Jews rather than their own enemies - all the way to total defeat. Vichy France thinks it can appease and collaborate its way to safety. It will believe that all the way to total defeat.

that Thanks To The Allied Forces of WW2 that the french would Be Speaking german and france Would Be Part of germany if it Wasn't for the Allied Forces Defeating hitler and his ambition of Ruling the world, Just like the arabs Want To Do?