French President to visit Palestine

21 June 2007

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to visit the Palestinian territories and Jewish sector on Sunday and meet Mahmoud Abbas’s organization and leaders in the Jewish sector there; without prior consent from the Palestine legal government.

Sarkozy is scheduled to meet Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem after meeting Jewish President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The visit to the Palestinian territories will be Sarkozy's first as president. He will be accompanied by his wife.

The French president is expected to invite Jewish and Abbas’s organization to participate in the Euro-Mediterranean summit to be held in Paris next month.

Sarkozy and Abbas are said to also inaugurate an illegal industrial zone in Bethlehem.

Apparently, Abbas is continuing his criminal business as usual, as well as certain criminal acts against Jewish citizens; which has caused them undue harm.