French Minister Pelted With Eggs in Gaza

[oberliner]

GAZA — Several dozen Palestinians confronted France’s foreign minister as she entered Gaza from Israel on Friday, throwing eggs and shouting angry slogans at her armored motorcade over a comment falsely attributed to her about an Israeli soldier being held in captivity here since 2006.

The minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, had met in Jerusalem on Thursday with the parents of the abducted soldier, Gilad Shalit, after which a statement by Mr. Shalit’s father accusing the captors of a war crime was misreported as hers.

The protesters were bused to the Erez crossing point by Waed, a Hamas-affiliated group focused on freeing Palestinian prisoners in Israel, and intercepted the motorcade as it entered Gaza. Eventually, Hamas police dispersed the protesters at the crossing, but they then followed the motorcade to a United Nations building and later to a hospital that France is helping rebuild from damage sustained during Israel’s three-week war here two years ago. At one point, Ms. Alliot-Marie was nearly hit in the head with a shoe as she ducked into her heavily armored Jeep. A member of her entourage suffered an injury serious to require an examination later at an Israeli hospital.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/world/middleeast/22gaza.html

[azurnoir]

1. would that be the same incident as this one?

I am sure you would never purposely run a duplicate thread, albeit from a different source

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x342004

surely though your will get more comment, in fact it already has LOL

[oberliner]

2. Same incident - different take - additional details

As I mentioned earlier, people often post different articles with different perspectives on the same events.

[azurnoir]

3. yes it could be interesting perhaps we should keep this up

same event different perspectives albeit on this forum more often those different perspectives are posted on the same thread, point and counterpoint

[oberliner]

4. Well it does seem that you and I are the only posters here these days!

Maybe we can just have a joint pod-cast or something.

[Lithos]

5. ROFL

Let me know if you do...

L-

[azurnoir]

6. it is doubtful but it would be interesting would it not? n/t

[oberliner]

7. PM me if you are interested in setting something like that up

I don't know how many listeners we'd get - but so far we've got at least one potential subscriber!

[shira]

8. I'll subscribe! NT

[azurnoir]

10. I think that you and another poster could very possibly

be much more effective at getting the message out, whatever that may be, besides I have no knowledge of pod-casting, however if you want the other side so to speak I can think of 3 other posters that would be much more equipped than I for such a thing, but that may not be what's in mind

[oberliner]

14. I think you and I would make for a much more interesting podcast

Sort of like a point/counterpoint type thing.

[azurnoir]

20. Here I must demure for reasons already posted

Ias I said there are 3 posters all have been members of DU for a longer period of time than I, that would be far more qualified and IMO are far more knowledgeable of the broad subject and it's history than I am, unfortunately none of them post much anymore
I would name them however I am not sure that is allowed, even though it is not a negative comment

[azurnoir]

12. BTW as to PMing you your settings do not allow that n/t

[oberliner]

13. They sure do

I get PM's all the time.

Maybe it's your settings?

[azurnoir]

15. nope I use that feature in a very singular and limited at that way n/t

[oberliner]

16. It says "That member does not wish to receive private messages" when I try to send you one

So maybe you should check again?

I just re-checked my settings and it says that I am allowing them - and I don't have anyone on ignore.

[azurnoir]

18. intresting that is the message I recieve as well

however I can speak publicly here

[oberliner]

19. Well if you want to set up a podcast with me - I'll need your contact info

I'd prefer to exchange that information privately if possible.

I can send a note to the admin to try to figure out why we are unable to send messages to one another if you are interested in going forward with this.

[Lithos]

9. I think it would be from at least a curiosity standpoint

:)

[azurnoir]

11. curiousity that is one way of putting it I guess.........n/t

[shaayecanaan]

17. Remarkable when you think of it...

that a French foreign minister would visit Gaza and that Hamas would provide security for the event. Perhaps not something that would have happened five years ago.