Pro-armenian Jew Now Running France W/ Devejian

[phantom22]

Nicholas Sarkozy is now at the helm in France. His right-hand man is Patrick Devejian. A lot of Pepto-bismol will be selling in Ankara. Does this make you Li-banana Hyes uncomfortable? (yes banana! you are monkeys - I was married to one) Edited May 7, 2007 by phantom22

[abass80]

I think that time will tell if he will have pro-armenian policies or not. I'm sure that he will have anti-turkish policies (not accepting Turkey into EU it is the right thing) but that doesn't necessarily mean that he will be pro-armenian! The one thing for sure is that he will be pro-french!

 

As for his religion i think that he is a Catholic. Just because there is a Jew somewhere in his mother's family tree doesn't make him one too.

[gamavor]

I don't know if Sarkozy is pro-Armenian, but for sure is one of the few pro-European Jews in the big politics.

[annannimusss]

If you look at his bio, it clearly says he is a Roman Catholic.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy

 

 

 

[gamavor]

 

Not that it matters but his ancestry is partly Jewish. The Jewish lineage is determined by the mother side. If the mother were Jew than according to the jewish tradition the offspring is jewish. The following is from the same page. I like his nickname - sounds purely Armenian

 

 

Andrée Mallah, then a law student, was the daughter of Benedict Mallah, a wealthy urologist and STD specialist with a well-established reputation in the mainly bourgeois 17th arrondissement of Paris. Benedict Mallah was originally a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki (Salonica), Greece. According to Jewish genealogical societies, the Mallah family of Salonica anciently came from Provence in southern France, which they had probably left at the time of the Jewish expulsions in the Middle Ages. Benedict Mallah, the son of a jeweler, left Salonica, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1904 at the age of 14 to attend the prestigious Lycée Lakanal boarding school of Sceaux, in the southern suburbs of Paris. He studied medicine after his baccalaureate and decided to stay in France and become a French citizen. A doctor in the French Army during World War I, he met a recent war widow, Adèle Bouvier (1891-1956), from a bourgeois family of Lyon, whom he married in 1917. Adèle Bouvier, Nicolas Sarkozy's grandmother, was a Catholic like the majority of French people. Benedict Mallah, for whom religion had reportedly never been a central issue, converted to Catholicism upon marrying Adèle Bouvier, which had been requested by Adèle's parents. Although Benedict Mallah converted to Catholicism, he and his family nonetheless had to flee Paris and take refuge in a small farm in Corrèze during World War II to avoid being arrested and delivered to the Germans.

[Dave]

Whether he will be good for us Armenians or not is debatable. Devedjian with him is clearly a plus though.

 

But it is clear that he's another one of Bush's lapdogs.

[Z'areh]

I don't give a rat's behind what extraction Sakozy has, the important thing is, i) if he can fix the sick French economy, ii) if he can be successful in blocking Turkey's EU entry, iii) if Djevedian can have a high profile cabinet post.

 

On the other hand Segolene Royal's remarks (especially on the last day of the campaign) demonstrated that she needs more political maturing, if she can have a staying power in this field maybe she can be the next president. In the mean time ANC-F backing Segolene will push the socialist party in promoting Armenian interests in the French parliament, and we all know that opposition parties can be much louder in defending Armenian interests than any ruling party. So there will be checks and balances when it comes to Armenian issues.

 

 

[Dave]

- Edited May 8, 2007 by Dave

[skhara]

Whether he will be good for us Armenians or not is debatable. Devedjian with him is clearly a plus though.

 

But it is clear that he's another one of Bush's lapdogs.

 

He is quite anti-Russia and anti-Iran from what I understand (perhaps its the 'Jew' in him) -- by that very reason I don't see how on earth he can advocate 'pro-Armenian' policy. Although him being anti-turk helps.

[AK-47]

Experts say under Sarkozy’s rule France pays and will pay special attention to the South Caucasian states – Armenia and Georgia. “First, because, as it is known, the Armenian Diaspora is very powerful in France. And second, a certain relation exists between French and Georgian political elite: a vivid example of those relations is the fact that French citizen Salome Zourabishvili became Georgian first Foreign Minister after the “rose revolution”, who used to work in the French foreign ministry before occupying that higher post in Georgia,” “Komersant-Vlast” reports.

 

Source: http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=22157

 

[Z'areh]

Sarkozy's Hungarian village celebrates!

 

 

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/07/...kozys-Roots.php

 

 

I'm sure the Azeris will now think Sarkozy must be of Armenian origin, he comes from Alattyan,

[Zartonk]

Anti-Turkish does not equal pro-Armenian

[gamavor]

I'm sure the Azeris will now think Sarkozy must be of Armenian origin, he comes from Alattyan,

 

You must have been reading someone's mind. In one Bulgarian forum Sarkozy was already re-named Sarkozian!

[AK-47]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDyUNWyuw8 Funny exchange of insults between Sarkozy and a visitor:

 

Visitor - "Oh no, don't touch me! You will make me dirty."

 

President of France Nicolas Sarkozy - "Then piss off, poor idiot"