Frenchie Wants Arabs to have Nukes
From Europarl:Madam President, the most surprising thing about our debate is our surprise, for Israel's expansionist policy is the inevitable and predictable result of the growing imbalance in the region, the stability for which we bear much of the responsibility. Firstly that is because since 1967 most of our states, with the notable exception of France, have continued to give the State of Israel – a state that is growing increasingly self-assured and domineering – the impression that it can violate international law and UN resolutions with impunity.
In reality, here as elsewhere we have followed Washington and persist in closing our eyes to the theocratic excesses of this religious state whose governments are under the thumb of fanatical parties and minorities that are just as bad as the other groups of religious fanatics in the region. That is why we should envisage imposing sanctions on Israel.
There is, however, another serious imbalance for which we are in part responsible, namely the imbalance of forces. I have no hesitation in saying that we must consider giving the Arab side a large enough force, including a large enough nuclear force, to persuade Israel that it cannot simply do whatever it wants. That is the policy my country pursued in the 1970s when it gave Iraq a nuclear force. We have now destroyed it. So we will carry on with our policy of imbalance and what is happening today is merely the annoying but inevitable result of our collective blindness and cowardice.
Matt's Chat
This is the danger of anti-Semitism gone amok... France wants to give nuclear weapons to countries who support blowing up school busses. Does anybody else think this is a good idea? I don't. And I put this in the pile of evidence that France is not an ally of the United States, but rather an enemy.Mark's Remarks
France admits it gave nukes to Iraq in the 1970s. Who knows what they gave them under the table in the 1990s? Also, who in the heck are the French to talk about fanaticism? Remember the debacle that was the French Revolution? Remember the Reign of Terror? Who are these whining and arrogant synchopants to charge fanaticism, especially when their nation has one of the biggest growing anti-Semite populations in the world. It is more evidence that the French are not friends of democracy, they are not friends of America. They are more and more looking like the enemy, a sad and pathetic country that has no prestige other than a large phallic symbol in its capital, trying to be a player one last time.
