Posted on 05/07/2007 1:31:50 AM PDT by Cincinna
JERUSALEM, May 7, 2007 (AFP) - Israel on Monday welcomed the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in France's presidential poll, hailing him as a friend of the Jewish state.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert congratulated "the French people on the election of Nicolas Sarkozy to the French presidency."
"I am convinced that the relations between Israel and France will develop and deepen during his mandate ... and that our cooperation will be fruitful and we will be able to launch a policy of peace in our region," Olmert said in a statement.
Right-wing opposition chief Benjamin Netanyahu said that "with Sarkozy, France's politics will be much more balanced."
"He is sensitive to Israel's security needs and can make himself heard in Arab countries," Netanyahu, a former premier who today is the leader of the main right-wing opposition party Likud, told army radio.
"He is a man who sees the interests of France via a different angle and his election is a gift for Israel and Franco-Israeli relations," he said, adding that Sarkozy, who has a Jewish grandparent, was "a friend of Israel."
The Israeli press was equally enthusiastic.
"A new era in relations with France," said a front-page headline in the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot.
"The Jewish origins of the next Catholic French president have provoked large hopes in Jerusalem," it said.
The rival tabloid Maariv hailed "the French revolution thanks to which a clear friend of Israel has been elevated to the Elysee for the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic."
The paper underlined that Sarkozy favoured a creation of a Palestinian state, has reproached the Palestinian Authority for not preventing violence against Israel and has opposed the controversial nuclear programme of Israel's arch-foe Iran.
"Sarkozy will be an honest mediator between Israel and the Arab world and that ... in itself is already a small French revolution," it said, adding that, "Israeli politicians estimate that for the most part Mr. Sarkozy up to now has adoped largely amicable positions
A great breakthrough for America and for Israel.
IIRC, Sarkozy’s grandfather was Jewish.
I hope he protects the French Jews. I am shocked that 15,000 have moved to Miami and others are requesting refugee status to come here, too. Refugees from a first world country shock me.
T-shirts in English???...wow,,what gives???
The photo is obviously a fake. As proof, notice the “French” girl with her arm raised. Notice something missing? No arm pit hair!
Just kidding. I congratulate the majority of the French voters for their decision to reject the Socialist candidate.
Maybe English supporters of Sarkozy give them to those French Sarkozy babes? :)
Vive la France!
That's a double oui! :)
Oui! Oui!
That looks like Paris Hilton..
Notice these female Sarkozy supporters don’t have hairy armpits.
The one in the photo has a brain :) and is not heading to the clink for drinking and driving.
Nice!
Speaking of armpit hair, this should be a dating tip. If the woman has hair growth, then she/it is probably a liberal....
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