The only thing Sarko regrets is that he and his girlfriend Obama got caught. I do not expect Obama to apologize or try to make amends.
by Gil Shefler and Tovah Lazaroff
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Jerusalem to assuage the diplomatic damage caused by a gaffe he recently made at the G-20 gathering, a Jewish French diplomat said on Thursday.
France’s former special envoy to the Middle East Valerie Valerie Hoffenberg said her ex-boss would visit “soon” to try to clear up the “misunderstanding of the Israeli [government] concerning France’s position.”
Sarkozy was quoted as calling Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “a liar” in a conversation with US President Barack Obama at the G-20 summmit in Cannes earlier in the week.
The remark, which was made in private but overheard by the press, has created a full-scale diplomatic crisis involving the governments of three countries.
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Sarkozy told the Jewish leadership he felt that Israel had lost the media war and had failed to make its case to the international community that it wanted peace, according to the sources.
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Tags: Gil Shefler, Tovah Lazaroff
