The French President has also invited Ehud Olmert to Paris for the meeting launching the Union for the Mediterranean.
CRIF deplores the invitation addressed to Bashar al-Assad for the Bastille Day festivities.
By inviting the President of Syria to its national holiday, a celebration of human rights, France is inviting a man who is continually flouting those rights.
Damascus, according to CRIF, is supporting and covering terrorist organisations, practising political assassinations in Lebanon and elsewhere, and boasts of its alliance with Iran, which is seeking nuclear weapons in order to destroy Israel and destabilise its neighbours.
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