More French Smack
France’s Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy (anagram: A dolt, by Zeus!) is a little pissed off:
French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy on Saturday criticized Israel’s rejection of a 72-hour halt to fighting to evacuate the injured, children and elderly from southern Lebanon.
“I actively regret” the refusal, Douste-Blazy told a news conference in Paris. He said he would immediately renew France’s appeal for such a temporary truce through the United Nations.
I’m trying to reconstruct with my high school French what he possibly could have said that could be translated that way.
Israel’s reason for rejecting the suggestion?
“There is no need for a 72-hour temporary cease-fire because Israel has opened a humanitarian corridor to-and-from Lebanon,” said government spokesman Avi Pazner.
“The problem is completely different. It is Hezbollah who is deliberately preventing the transfer of medical aid and of food to the population of southern Lebanon in order to create a humanitarian crisis, which they want to blame Israel for,” Pazner said.
Certainly, Egypt has had no problem getting in and out of Lebanon.