Chirac to Sharon: You're not welcome in France

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French President Jacques Chirac informed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon he is not welcome in Paris after he urged all French Jews to leave the country immediately, Israeli television reported.

I'm sure Sharon cares and it hurt over the news.

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So Chirac wants the Jews to stay in France.

That seems like a good thing to me.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/453959.html

Haaretz said

Sharon's comments are also problematic from the political perspective. France regarded the prime minister's statement as a crude intervention in its domestic affairs, casting doubt on France's ability to protect its citizens.

The anti-Semitic incidents of recent years in France are indeed grave, the tension between the Jewish and Muslim community is indeed difficult, but the French government is making enormous efforts to struggle with all that. Outside the formal frameworks of the institutions, there are various initiatives to eradicate anti-Semitism specifically, and racism in general - racism toward Arabs is no less worse - and Jewish and Muslim citizens of France are taking part equally in those efforts.