The Religious Authority, Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah issued a communiqué in which he commented on the latest stands of French President especially his talk about the sufferings of the Israelis. Following is the text of the communiqué.

The role that the French president has assumed which tries to be a satellite of the American foreign policies towards the region, and which adopts the Israeli point of view vis-à-vis their conflict with the Palestinian, hurts the major causes of the Arabs and Muslims, and represents at attempt to distort historical facts and change the future in a way that serves Israel and international Zionism.

The Sarkozi Administration that refuses to apologize to the Algerians for the carnages the French colonialism committed in their country resembles, to a great extent, the state of Israel which not only kicked the Palestinians from their land but also continues to commit daily massacres which have become a daily policy on which all Israeli officials agree.

Nevertheless, Israel would not have continued this policy of killings, starving and besieging the Palestinians, as well as enlarge the settlements had it not been supported by the Western administrations, especially the US Administration.

The Sarkozi Administration which is trying, nowadays, to board the train which Tony Blair was in when he was a prime minister, although it knows that such an attitude runs against French interests; being a satellite to the down falling Bush Administration constitutes a great risk that threatens the French role in the entire Arab and Muslim region, knowing that Sarkozi and his administration do not represent the real positional of the French people.

We say to the French president who talks about the necessity of recognizing the right of the Israelis, who have suffered for a long time to live in peace... If he is talking about the sufferings of the Jews; such a suffering was not inflicted by the Arabs and Muslims who, on the contrary, embraced them in all their countries, especially on the economic and cultural levels. Their sufferings were the result of the Western behavior towards them especially that the Western Christian mentality considered them responsible for the clarification of Christ which is not acknowledged by the Muslims. In addition, the Holocaust was initiated by Western parties in Germany and other countries.

The West, including France, should have made amends for this horrendous brutality against the Jews by embracing them in their mother countries in Europe and not in Palestine, whose people were rooted out of their country with the full support of the Western countries.

Sarkozi, who presents himself as a champion for the Israeli cause, especially in the peaceful nuclear Iranian dossier, should not be more loyal to the American Administration than the Administration itself. He should not neglect the facts that were emphasized by the last American intelligence report. He also has to remember the French role in producing the Israeli nuclear arsenal, and act in a way that conforms with France's and the world's interests, to destroy this arsenal that represents a threat to regional and world peace.

As to the Palestinian state that has become a tool for political manipulation, as demonstrated by the American and French discourse… We ask the French president, about the structure of this state, its borders and its future in view of the Israeli settling policy that has deprived the Palestinians from any chance of building a viable state… Instead, we ask the French president to make a unified practical effort instead of telling the Palestinians some vague useless words.

At a time we believe that the French administration will not assume any meaningful role or position in the region, as a result of choosing to support Israeli interests, we ask the Arabs and Muslims to shoulder their responsibilities towards the Palestinian cause, which if it falls will lead to the fall of all the thrones of the Arab and Muslim officials.