Meanwhile, Back to Those French Peacekeepers
Yep, still not doing anything.
Tag: "France"
Keeping the Peace
Those French peacekeepers doing what they do best. Besides holding up white flags, that is.
Sep 14, 2006 | 5 comments | View Post
A Frenchman and His Dog
The Associated Press has gone to the dogs. French United Nations peacekeeper Staff Sgt. Sebastien Moity of the Dog Handler Squad unit greets Japp, a Malinois shepherd dog, during a training session in Naqura, headquarters of United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon, or UNIFIL, Friday, Sept. 8, 2006. The dogs are trained to attack but [...]
Sep 09, 2006 | 4 comments | View Post
Excuse Moi
Not many news reports cry out “blog post” like this one. French try not to be so rude AS Parisians crowd to the beaches in August, tourists are descending on the City of Light in droves, undeterred by a recent survey highlighting complaints that visitors get the cold shoulder from locals. The most visited country [...]
Aug 13, 2006 | 2 comments | View Post
Headline of the Day
..is this one: French are rudest, most boring people on earth: British poll ..since it sums up what most of us have known for so long. But even though the headline does not teach you anything new, I suggest you read the article, if only for the *shock*horror* reaction of the French. The French have [...]
May 21, 2006 | 3 comments | View Post
French Media and the Halimi Affair
Israellycool reader Grumpy Troll has given some more insight into the French media’s coverage of the murder of Ilan Halimi. Here in France, the religion of Ilan Halimi’s killers is virtually unreported. No major French news agency has revealed that the murderers recited the Qur’an in calls to the family. There has only been Nicolas [...]
Mar 05, 2006 | 4 comments | View Post
Reasons to Hate the French: #976574575
More French anti-Semitic ugliness: On Sunday, tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of the city of lights in a huge protest against anti-Semitism. It seems, however, that one demonstration, regardless of how big it was, is not enough to eradicate the ugly phenomenon. The Le Parisien newspaper revealed Tuesday that a [...]
Mar 01, 2006 | 11 comments | View Post
The Big French Phoney
French President Jacques Chirac, his prime minister and other politicians joined about 1,000 people at a Paris synagogue, for the memoral service of Ilan Halimi, the young French Jew murdered by Muslims because he was Jewish. I can’t say that I am particularly touched by photos like this one of Chirac at the synagogue.. ..because [...]
Feb 24, 2006 | 0 comments | View Post
Deja Vu
Ilan Halimi, a 23-year-old Jew from Paris, was recently kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered. Almost immediately, the French police ruled out anti-Semitism as the motive, despite a number of important facts: The killers tried to kidnap at least two other Jews After Ilan’s family said that they could not pay the demanded ransom (Euro 500,000), [...]
Feb 21, 2006 | 3 comments | View Post
Why I Don’t Carrefour the French
Carrefour is a French hypermarket chain – one of the largest in the world (Hat tip: Gideon).
Feb 12, 2006 | 11 comments | View Post
