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Article: Chirac Thwarts EU Condemnation of anti-Semitism.
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- Israel Faxx
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- October 20, 2003
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By IsraelNationalNews.com
French President Jacques Chirac has thwarted a European Union condemnation of a strongly anti-Semitic speech by the Malaysian Prime Minister - and Israel is considering filing an official protest against France.
Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohammed, speaking at the Islamic Summit Conference (OIC) in his country last week, bemoaned the ineffectual and feeble state of Muslims and Arabs around the world, lacing his words with some of the most anti-Semitic statements sounded by a world leader in the past several decades. "1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews," he said. "There must be a way... We are actually ...