France's history as Arafat ally

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But France has remained true.

Just two weeks ago France's Foreign Minister, Michel Barnier, made it quite clear: Nothing, he said, will be done without Arafat or against Arafat.

Relations between France and the Palestinian movement have grown progressively closer over the last three decades, encouraged both by the widespread public sympathy in France for a people living under military occupation and by broader strategic concerns as France seeks influence across the Middle East.

In 1982, it was France that stepped in to extricate Mr Arafat from Beirut when his beleaguered PLO forces were threatened with destruction by the Israeli army.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3964567.stm

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they just love the weasel.

[bluedonkey]

1. Because France

sees Israel for what it is?! A threat to the Middle East!