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French senior civil servant fired for anti-Israel pamphlet
Updated: 23/Mar/2008 22:52
Bruno Guigue, deputy prefect of the southwestern French town of Saintes, wrote in an online column this month that Israel was the only regime that allows "snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates. »
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PARIS (EJP)--- A French senior civil servant was fired after publishing an anti-Israeli pamphlet on internet, the Interior Ministry announced Sunday.

According to French television, Bruno Guigue, deputy prefect of the southwestern French town of Saintes, wrote in an online column this month that Israel was the only regime that allows "snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates.»

Guigue, author of several books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, also wrote of the "Israeli jails where -- thanks to religious law -- they stop torturing on the Sabbath."
 
In his article, he appears to justify Iran's diatribes against Israel by the Israeli attitude itself and adds that "concerning terrorism the state of Israel can pride itself on a abnormal prize list."  
 
The column published on Oumma.com, a website of the French-speaking Islam, was entitled «When the pro-Israel lobby unleashes against the United Nations.»

Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie dismissed Guigue, after learning of the column on Wednesday. She said he acted contrary to his duty of reservation and called the case «exceptional».
 
The National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism welcomed the Minister's decision and called for a ban of the text from the website.  


 
 
 

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Day in history
The Rothschild-Hadassah University Hospital and Medical Center was opened on Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 9 May 1939.

When the hospital became inaccessible following Israel's 1948 war of independance, it continued to treat the people of the city in an assortment of makeshift facilities scattered throughout Jerusalem.
With no immediate prospect of returning to Mt. Scopus, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organisation of America, decided to build a modern medical campus in the suburb of Ein Kerem.



 
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