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| November 22, 2012
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Tehran angered by France FM blaming Iran for Gaza conflict

Iran reputes the French FM for his observations that Tehran is the source of most mid-East conflicts, including the Gaza violence for the past week.

By REUTERS

 

DUBAI – Iran reacted angrily to assertions by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and accused him of not understanding the realities in the region after the diplomat accused Tehran of being responsible for the Gaza conflict.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius – Photo: AFP/File

On Wednesday Fabius accused Iran of negative intentions in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Gaza and that it bore a “heavy responsibility” for the fighting for providing long-range weapons.

Iran has denied allegations it has supplied Hamas with Fajr-5 rockets, which the militant group that controls Gaza said it had fired on Tel Aviv, but Iran has made clear it has provided military aid. Continue Reading »

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| October 31, 2012
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Hollande & Netanyahu call for tougher sanctions on Iran

Israel’s PM meets with French president in Paris where Hollande backs more EU sanctions on Tehran, urges ‘unconditional’ resumption of peace talks but rejects possible military action.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Francois Hollande called Wednesday for firmer sanctions on Iran to keep it from developing nuclear weapons.

France's President Francois Hollande and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - Reuters.

France’s President Francois Hollande, left, and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attending a joint news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, October 31, 2012. – Photo by Reuters

In a visit to Paris on Wednesday, Netanyahu praised French pressure on Iran and called for “even tougher sanctions.” Continue Reading »

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| October 8, 2012
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French President to Jewish Leaders: We will fight anti-Semitism with ‘greatest firmness’

Meeting between President Hollande & community heads comes after raids on Islamist cell, shooting incident near Parisian synagogue.

France is boosting security at Jewish religious sites after blanks were fired at a synagogue west of Paris amid renewed concerns about anti-Semitism around the country.

French President Francois Hollande meeting with Jewish leaders.


France’s President Francois Hollande and French Jewish leaders following a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on October 7, 2012. Photo by AFP

French President Francois Hollande met Sunday with leaders of the country’s Jewish community and pledged to fight extremism and anti-Semitism “with the greatest firmness.”

He said that authorities “in the coming days, in the coming hours” will increase security at Jewish religious sites so they won’t be subject to the kind of attack that targeted a synagogue in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil on Saturday night. Continue Reading »

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| August 28, 2012
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France launches official murder investigation into Arafat’s death

Police Investigation after formal complaint by Arafat’s widow following traces of highly radioactive polonium on Arafat’s underwear.

By DPA and Haaretz

 

 

French prosecutors have launched a formal murder investigation into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, AFP news agency reported Tuesday.

 

Yasser Arafat and his wife Suha hold hands prior to Arafat's departure from Ramallah, Oct. 29, 2004.

Yasser Arafat and his wife Suha hold hands prior to Arafat’s departure from Ramallah, October 29, 2004. – Photo by AP

AFP reported that the prosecutor’s office in the town of Nanterre west of Paris had ordered a murder investigation following a formal complaint by Arafat’s widow, Suha Arafat. The probe will be carried out by one or more investigating magistrate, who will have the power to summon witnesses. Continue Reading »

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| July 18, 2012
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Check out Israeli Technology World Wide

Israeli technology is quickly flooding foreign markets. Three of the newest on the docket: France, Britain, and Korea.

By Yael Willner

Monitoring employees Photo: Thinkstock

Monitoring movements
Photo: Thinkstock

 

The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, will soon be outfitted by Synel security technology. Synel, an Israeli subsidiary company in France, will provide time and attendance management hardware, as well as fingerprint verification, keypad entry, magnetic card, barcode card, proximity card, contactless smart card and facial recognition technology to help prevent burglary and unauthorized entry throughout the museum.

 

 

British Telecom logo

British Telecom logo

British Telecom, the large international communications company, will soon feature Cyber-Ark software to protect and secure its privileged accounts.

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| June 18, 2012
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Paris School Under Fire for Blatantly Anti-Israel Exam Question

French Jews outraged after a university in Paris posed a question on an exam as to whether IDF strikes can be classified as “genocide.”

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

 

An umbrella organization of French Jewry, CRIF, responded with “indignance” after an exam from the Bichat Hospital Faculty of Medicine at Paris’s Diderot University included a question on whether IDF strikes in Gaza can be classified as genocide, Agence France Presse reported.

students taking exam

students taking exam - Reuters

According to the CRIF and corroborated by a report by the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, Professor Christophe Oberlin set the students of humane medicine the question, using the example of the deaths of 22 members of the same family in a “classic bombing” during the Gaza conflict of 2008-2009. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2012
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French Jews say Lyon assault latest in series of anti-Semitic incidents

Jewish leaders call atmosphere unbearable, say attacks have picked up since Toulouse shootings in March

Jewish communal leaders in France say an attack on three Jewish men Saturday night was just the latest in a line of anti-Semitic incidents against the country’s Jews.

“There has been a series of acts like the one in in Villeurbanne,”  said Richard Prasquier, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), according to Le Figaro.

 

Protesters raising a banner reading "in France, we kill Blacks, Jews, and Arabs" during a silent demonstration in Paris in March. (Photo credit: Daniel Hoffman)Protesters raising a banner reading “in France, we kill Blacks, Jews, and Arabs” during a silent demonstration in Paris in March. – Photo: Daniel Hoffman

 

Police are still searching for the culprits behind the incident Saturday night near the southern city of Lyon, in which 10 attackers assaulted three 18-year-old Jewish men outside a Jewish center in Villeurbanne. Continue Reading »

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| May 7, 2012
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The Israeli-French honeymoon is likely over

Following the decisive victory of socialist party candidate Francois Hollande, France will experience a series of characteristic, economic, and foreign policy changes, but Netanyahu has no reason to rejoice.

Regime change in a democracy is always a delightful moment. The cruelty and swiftness with which voters cast their ballots is a reminder of the fact that despite the corruption, filth, and unscrupulousness that exist in a functioning democracy, democracy is nonetheless an exceptional method of keeping resources that belong to the masses out of the hands of the few.

Newly elected president Francois Hollande May 6, 2012 in Tulle, France.

Newly elected president Francois Hollande waves after a speech following the results of the second round of the presidential election on May 6, 2012 in Tulle, France - Photo by AFP

In France, where the role of President still holds a smidgen of kingliness, removal from office is that much more cruel and impressive.

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| April 3, 2012
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France Expels Radical Muslims

France is expelling “foreign Islamic radicals” in a new strategy to cope with the growing wave of Muslim terror. The UN has not commented.

France is expelling five “foreign Islamic radicals” in a new strategy to cope with the growing wave of Muslim terror. The United Nations, which frequently has condemned Israel for deporting Arab terrorists, has not commented.

France's Interior Minister Gueant speaks to media meeting with French Muslim leaders

France's Interior Minister Gueant speaks to media meeting with French Muslim leaders - Reuters

The action by France follows the murders of seven people, including a rabbi and three young Jewish children in Toulouse, by Al Qaeda-linked terrorist Mohammed Merah, who was killed in a French police raid on his apartment two weeks ago. Continue Reading »

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| March 29, 2012
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Israel Seeking Foreign Partners in Gas Fields

Israel is looking for foreign partners to help in exploiting some 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas sitting off its coast.

Israeli officials are actively seeking foreign partners to help tap massive natural gas resources recently discovered off of its coast.

“All parties with expertise and know-how in prospecting, extraction and infrastructure are welcome,” Shaul Tzemah, head of Israel’s energy ministry, told French delegates at a seminar on Wednesday.

“It’s now or never – if you want a presence, there are opportunities to be grasped,” he told representatives of Electricité de France (EDF), Suez-Gaz de France and Technip.

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| March 22, 2012
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Toulouse Terrorist is Dead

The terrorist who murdered seven people, including a rabbi and three young children, is dead after a 30-hour siege in Toulouse.

French police raided the apartment in which 23-year-old Mohammed Merah was holed up after he failed to fulfill two promises to surrender Wednesday.

Officers first flooded the apartment with gas in an effort to paralyze the terrorist. However, they were met with a hail of bullets when they attempted to enter the apartment — gunfire that lasted several minutes.

Merah reportedly died when he leapt from his window trying to escape the oncoming police.

Three police officers were wounded as they stormed the apartment, according to the AFP news agency, including one “fairly seriously.” Continue Reading »

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| March 19, 2012
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France: Jews fear another terror wave

In wake of fatal shooting near Jewish school in Toulouse, France’s Jews express concern of possible new anti-Semitic trend

The Jewish community in France expressed shock and horror over Monday’s shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, and some may fear the incident is a prelude of a new wave of anti-Semitic terror.

An unknown assailant opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah School in Toulouse around 8 am Monday, killing at least four people and injuring five.

French authorities have launched a manhunt for the shooter, who fled the scene.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Interior Minister Claude Gueant are said to be en route to Toulouse. Continue Reading »

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| March 6, 2012
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French PM knocks halal, kosher laws as campaign heats up

Francois Fillon suggests Muslims, Jews give up ritual slaughter as President Sarkozy steps up their efforts to woo far-right voters

France’s prime minister urged Muslims and Jews to consider scrapping their halal and kosher slaughter laws on Monday as President Nicolas Sarkozy and his allies stepped up their efforts to woo far-right voters.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon made the suggestion after Sarkozy called at the weekend for butchers to clearly label meat slaughtered according to religious laws and his allies warned immigrants might impose halal meat on French schoolchildren.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon Photo: Reuters

Prime Minister Francois Fillon - Photo: Reuters

Fillon and other conservative leaders linked this tough stand on ritually prepared meat to issues such as immigration and French identity that the far-right National Front uses to tap into resentment against Europe’s largest Muslim minority. Continue Reading »

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