Hollande Didn't Want Netanyahu @ Paris Rally

by JASmius



I just knew this kumbayah-fest couldn't possibly be completely on the level:

The socialist government of French President Francois Hollande did not want Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take part in Sunday's mass rally in Paris against terrorism, according to Israeli media reports....

Israel Channel 2, which generally takes an anti-Netanyahu line, reported that the French had signaled his presence would be divisive.

Only after Netanyahu said he would go did Hollande call to invite him, the Israeli media reported.

Cowardly anti-Semitism, in other words.  At least the Islamic Fundamentalists have the courage of their Jew-hating convictions.

Relations between the Israeli and French governments have been tense. France has played a vanguard role in backing the Palestinians at the UN Security Council. Hollande has been further irked by Netanyahu's recent calls for French Jews to emigrate to Israel.

Well, if Hollande won't actually do anything to protect French Jews from Muslim attacks, Bibi sure as hell will.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told Jeffrey Goldberg, another Netanyahu critic at the Atlantic magazine that, "If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France. The French Republic will be judged a failure."

"France will no longer be France" without that specific 1/660th of its population?  What is this, a moderately subtle "the Jews will take all our money with them" joke?  Hopefully they'll leave the stench behind.

Speaking of a lack of subtley:

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky attended a ceremony at the Grand Synagogue of Paris on Sunday night along with Netanyahu and Hollande. The French president left the synagogue before Netanyahu began to speak, Israel Radio reported. Sharansky's agency would be charged with coordinating the absorption of Jewish immigrants from France.

And by contrast....:

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was warmly welcomed by Hollande....

Some Israeli media reports claimed that French authorities purposefully placed Netanyahu in the second row of marching leaders and Abbas in the first tier alongside Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Passive-aggressive prejudice is almost high-school-eque, isn't it?  Like Revenge of the Nerds only without the beer, belching, and boobies, and with a core dump of bigotry.

It was all for show, in other words.  The Charlie Hebdo massacre was too public for the French government to ignore, so they hastily cobbled together yesterday's march as an empty publicity stunt that will have absolutely no change-in-foreign-policy reality to it.  And after another week or two of mourning, it'll be back to jihadist-coddling business-as-usual.

Second look at Barack Obama playing golf instead?