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A must read if you can read French.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:11:02 PM EST
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Unfortunately too long to translate.

Essentially, he says the Hizbullah incident was, if not fabricated, greatly exaggerated after the fact in order to teach Royal and her people a lesson: if you think you can go around the Near East meeting people you shouldn't (however democratically elected, think Hizbullah, Hamas), you are just bound to step on an "anti-semitism" landmine. Even if you don't, there are those (the blogger suspects the Hariri-Chirac camp and also strongly alludes to Walid Jumblatt) who will make sure the mine you didn't step on blows up in your face anyway.

So, though Royal met Hizbullah, she didn't go on to meet Hamas. Mission accomplished.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:50:10 PM EST
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And at least she did better than Jospin who got stoned (with stones, not joints) the last time he was in Lebanon.
by glomp on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:51:36 PM EST
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As Jerome analyzed, the blow comes to the right because no one in Israel moved a finger (and french people noticed), she got positivelly front-paged in major Israel newspaper, met lots of political leaders in Israel (mutually avantageous since there's a big political fight in Israel right now so local politicians jumped on this occasion).
by Laurent GUERBY on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 04:03:08 PM EST
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