My application to history is simple and harsh. Not everyone in France and the surrounding country side was totally on the allied side. You as a torn people stood aside while Nazi's flooded your steets and took those members of a race prisoner and loaded them on a trains and tractors. No one stood in their way except Poland and they were crushed because the entire might of industial Germany was on them. That was the time to join and attack. Did the Germans out number you as a collective Europe? Those collected in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland or the entire Eastern block before Lenin devestated them? Did the words of the Nazi pary appeal to you when Hitler blamed Europes problems on the Jews?

Attacks on oulaying conties and then Britain didn't come from Germany, they game from Calias, Zebrugge, Amsterdam etc and they were not all German. In fact there were some Americans in there as well when Germany made the call for Arian Brothers to join the homeland. People even got excited across the Atlantic to join the socialist workers party and make blame for world issues on a minority race.

My point was Isreal didn't steal anything and Arafat isn't a saint because he bomb school children and cafes where people work and play, he sometimes even kills his own.

Having said that, I know there are good people who resisted the Nazi party but many felt the same way as Hitler until it was too late to turn back and the truth was known. In many cases the local people didn't know or drowned out what was happening around them.

Perhaps Chirac doesn't like Baby bush because he said "we don't need your permission to defend our country" world leaders have some huge egos. Then add in Isreals constant backlash at France for supporting Arafat and our desire to support Isreal and then Frances economic ties to the middle east and you have ONE BIG ****ING MESS>