More French Perfidy

As I vented yesterday, the vote of the UN General Assembly against the defensive fence that Israel is building was nothing short of shameful. It is one thing for Arab states to vote for such a resolution, no one expects any more form them. It is quite another for the countries of the EU, who all are or will soon be the targets of Islamist terrorism, to vote this way. Now, Haaretz is reporting that the EU states had actually decided to abstain a mere hour before the vote.

At the last moment, however, France backed by Sweden blocked a final decision to abstain and pushed fellow members to support the resolution.

"It was the French connection that delivered Europeans' support for the resolution," a Western diplomat who wished to remain anonymous told Haaretz yesterday. "In behind-the-scene negotiations over the wording of the resolution, it was sometimes hard to distinguish between the eagerness of the PLO observer al-Kidwa and that displayed by French Ambassador [Jean-Marc de la] Sabliere," the diplomat added.

If, and when, there is a terrorist attack in France, I, for one, will have no sympathy whatsoever. They have consistently betrayed Israel and the US, the two countries most actively fighting what is, in effect, World War IV - the War on Terror - and they should be treated like the back-stabbing appeasers and collaborators that they are.