Jerusalem – Thousands of Israelis gathered in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to send a message of solidarity to the people of France on the heels of Friday’s deadly series of terror attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and hundreds wounded.
In addressing the emotional rally, Interior minister Silvan Shalom assured France’s ambassador Patrick Maisonnave and other French dignitaries in attendance that, “Israel stands by you and we will help you. We will defeat those who want to destroy our values. We will stand shoulder to shoulder with you as a nation that understands better than others what it is to be under a terror assault.”
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Other speakers included former president Shimon Peres and Israel opposition leader Isaac Herzog who spoke amid intermittent chants of “vive la liberté.”
The rally ended with the singing of both the French and Israeli national anthems.
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I’m sure that those french who arrived in israel this year are glad that they did
Let the French take a lesson of statesmanship and diplomacy from those supportive enlighted and very smart liberal Israelis, who promised a ‘new middle east’ with their peace initiatives, , , ,and do the exact opposite,
Sorry people!
I know it’s sensitive but I can’t hold back anymore!
The terror attack this evening in Paris was horrible! Families have been destroyed and the devastation is horrific! I know how they feel, anyone who lives in Israel knows what it feels like to live through terror attacks.
HOWEVER!
The French government has been condemning Israel at every chance they had! While we are sending our condolences and support to France, they didn’t even bother to cover the attack on Friday when a Jewish father and son were gunned down by Muslim terrorists! France took Hamas off the terrorist list and instead started marking goods produced by Jews in Judea and Samaria!
With all due respect, I will not post a French flag on my profile and quite frankly I don’t understand why anyone would! It is the French government who has been condemning Israel for fighting the same radical Islamic organizations that attacked Paris!
Some may call me insensitive, I agree! it is exactly this insensitivity that is the reason I am NOT posting a French flag on my feed!
what do you call the reactions (or the lack of) from the French government when Israel has been under attack day in and day out?! Should I call for restraint? Should I give credit to the claims ISIS is using to justify this terror attack?
So instead of putting a French flag up, I will raise the Israeli one. Why? Because Israel warned France and the rest of the world of the effect of radical Islam! We tried to explain who and what we are fighting but they would not listen!
We told them this was not about land or occupation but they didn’t listen! They pressured us to make deals with those who shoot us, blow us up and stab us and when we refuse to do so, they condemn us!
We warned them that this is about a radical culture that has no respect for life, but they ignored us and shook their finger at us for fighting the same radical Islamic ideology that attacked Paris. Only we fight it every day!
So here is the Israeli flag!
The one that is fighting radical Islamic terror every day!
The flag that is condemned and yelled at from every international podium for fighting the same evil that murdered over 130 of French innocent civilians.
It seems that nothing the arab terrorists do will wake up the West. Thank G-D for the Zionist IDF, which is protecting Israel. No one else will.
Don’t worry guys, as soon as we give the palis a state, they’ll all turn peaceful…(in the inimitable words of ban ki mooney, Obama, EU, etc.)
Why doesn’t the rest of the world do this when Israelis are killed????
Following the recent events in Paris, Israel calls upon both sides to exercise restraint to prevent escalation.
Israel also recommends that the Government of France agrees to a draw a border, crossing Paris in two parts, so that the parties could live peacefully side by side.
The Israeli government announced that it certainly does not justify violent actions but suggests that France should check the issue of discrimination against the Muslim minority in France, which brings young people to carry out acts of desperation. Sound gamiliar
where is their solidarity with jews killed by terrorists in jerusalem or is this a labor led left wing peace rally. by the people up there it seems like the same deniers of arab terror.
I’m just wondering if anyone recalls France EVER showing solidarity with Israel after anything.
How sad that other countries don’t come out in solidarity with Israel every time they suffer a terror attack! Do Jewish lives matter??????