It seems to be mostly an anti-Netanyahu thing, because they have been criticizing him regardless of what he did or didn't do. When he at first was not going to go, he was criticized for not attending. Then he went and he was criticized for going, and for why he went, and for what he said, and for what the people there did or said about him, etc.
Personally, even not being a big fan of Bibi, though I like certain things about him, I see absolutely nothing wrong with his having decided to participate in the event. I think it only natural that the Prime Minister of Israel participate in an anti-terror event and talk to a community of Jews grieving from a terror attack. I think it would have been more strange if Netanyahu had not gone to France.
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First the French didn't want him there because they thought that a prominent Zionist Jew at a rally against intolerance would upset the very demographic in France that's the source of the problem!
ReplyDeleteThen they tried to put him in the second row while terrorist and Holocaust-denier Mahmood Abbas was given a front row spot.
Come on, don't Jews have any pride in the way Bibi thumbed his nose at his rude hosts?
And that there is heavy criticism on Obama for not sending someone senior?
ReplyDeleteIgnore those nattering nabobs of negativism (credit due to William Safire, of course).
ReplyDeleteIt's pure Bibi-phobia.
Bibi should have held up a placard to free Pollard at the France venue!
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