What Will Be The Price For Bibi's Visit to Congress?

Barry Shaw / American Thinker

When the French called for an anti-terror march of world leaders following the Paris terror attacks, one of the first to accept was Israel’s prime minister.

According to the rumor mill, Francois Hollande tried to dissuade Benjamin Netanyahu from participating in the rally, but Bibi stuck to his guns, determined to show the world that Israel, under constant threat from terrorism, is defiantly linked, in fact leads, the war against terror.

Hollande not accustomed to snubs, responded. There was a price to pay for Israel’s prime minister defying the French president. Hollande invited to this anti-terror event Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of a Palestinian less-than-state regime with decades of bloody terror atrocities on its hands and united in a unity government with Hamas, an officially designated terrorist organization.

When it comes to leadership spite, it seems, decency and morality evaporates.

Hollande did join Netanyahu in attending the synagogue ceremony in memory of the murdered French Jews. How could he not?  But he beat a hasty retreat before Bibi told the Jewish audience to get the hell out of there, a completely different message from the one that Hollande was presenting to his Jews.

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