Saturday June 6, 2015

I've Been Thinking:

It was bound to happen in France. It was only a matter of time.

The southern coastal city of La Seyne-sur-Mer is naming a street after Yasser Arafat, the notorious founder of the PLO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Arafat, a 1994 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize along with Israeli Prime Minister Ytizhak Rabin, died in France in 2004.

La Seyne-sur-Mer is a small city of about 57,000 people. It is famous for being home to one of the finest ship building yards in the world and certainly in Europe.

The mayor, Marc Vuillemot, said that he does not understand the problem. He explains that Yitzhak Rabin has a street named after him in the very same quarter. In his own words: "My understanding is that the two men received the Nobel Peace Prize together! I am not going to be the decider of who was the greater person."

The logic is wrong. Even if, in the end, the Nobel committee saw Arafat as worthy of the prize, he was still a mass murderer of Jews and Israelis.

In a strange twist of history... maybe even an ironic twist ... the Israeli attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osarik that took place June 7, 1984 was an attack on a reactor that was manufactured and assembled by in La Seyne-sur- Mer.

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