The official site of the PA is running with the following report:
Meanwhile, the current French Foreign Minister does not seem much better.The former French Prime Minister and current member of the European Parliament, Michel Rocard, blasted Israel as an “abnormal case in the world”, describing its creation by the 1917-Balfour Declaration as a “historic mistake”.
Rocard, who is also a well-known member of the French Socialist Party, was delivering a lecture at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on June 16, in which he said that the Balfour promise England gave to the Jews to create a national homeland for them in Palestine was a “mistake”.
He also described the Israeli state as a “unique and abnormal condition because it was created with a promise, and that millions of Jews gathered from all around the world, creating an entity that continues to pose a threat to its neighbors until today.”
Rocard also drew attention to the fact that Israel was also historically created on a racist basis, depending on armed conflict to set its borders. Rocard referred to the colonization of the Arab world, of which his country was involved in, as the main reason behind the current state of violence and conflict in the Middle East.
I guess it will serve them right when their country is taken over by Muslims.On the eve of the first regional visit by newly appointed French Foreign Minister Michael Barnier, Israeli officials expressed regret that the French continue to court Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
Barnier will leave Paris Sunday for his first official visit to the Middle East, going to Egypt and Jordan. A week latter, Barnier will go to the PA for two days for meetings with Arafat, pa Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and PA Foreign Minister Nabil Sha’ath.
Barnier will not be coming to Israel, apparently because of the government’s policy of not meeting foreign officials who meet Arafat
