France has reportedly warned Israel to keep its hands of senior Hizballah officials invited to participate in a diplomatic conference in Paris. The warning came after French intelligence claimed it learned of a Mossad plot to nab as many of the Hizballah chiefs as possible. Continue reading »

Excepting the period of Napolean’s reign, French arrogance and naivety regarding their neighbors and the world at large have only brought defeat for that proud nation over the past several hundred years.

And now the French expect the rest of the West to follow their lead when it comes to dealing with global Islamic terror.

Said French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to the French National Assembly last week:

“Against terrorism, it is not a war that has to be fought, but — as France has done for years — a determined struggle based on constant vigilance and effective cooperation with our partners.”

But those “partners” he speaks of - entities like Syria, Iran, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, etc - are the very ones facilitating terrorism! Cooperation with them will only embolden them to continue playing the terror card, even if discreetly.

Villepin went on to absolve the practitioners of terrorism of all guilt by claiming the phenomenon is an alien concept that has attached itself to real crises in order to spur senseless violence.

He then played apologist for Al Qaeda, Hizb’allah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc by suggesting those crises were in fact justification for terrorist violence against the party purportedly causing the grievance.

“We will never bring this plague to an end except by also fighting against injustice, violence, against crises.”

But Villepin really took the cake with his concluding statement:

“It is the duty of France and Europe to show that the clash of civilizations is not an inevitability. It is only we — French and Europeans — who bear this wisdom inherited from history.”

Ironically, France, under Emperor Charlemagne, was the first European power to repulse Islam’s long desire to overrun the Christian-dominated continent, in what is and always has been a “clash of civilizations.”

To follow the advice of France’s modern leadership is to play right into the hands of Allah and his followers. In light of the past century of French blunders and defeats, we should know better.

The international community, no doubt strong armed to a certain degree by the Bush Administration, actually showed a great deal of clarity in its statement Sunday regarding the escalating situation along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Beirut has been screaming for a ceasefire for days, urging the world to impose a cessation of hostilities not on Hizb’allah, but on Israel.

But leaders of the world’s top industrialized nations (G-8) meeting in St. Petersburg told Lebanon it will have calm only AFTER aggression against the Jewish state ceases. Continue reading »