The press-release hinted on the business link between Mr Chirac and Mr Hariri in Washington. Barakat said Lebanon, the only pro-French nation in the Middle East, was betrayed by the President of France. How ironic that Mr Chirac addresses PLO audiences in the territories and shake the hands of those who slaughtered thousands of French speaking Lebanese Christians in Damur, Aishiye, and bombed French interests in Lebanon. We wonder why Mr Chirac did not visit the schools in the security zone where our sons and daughters learn French, said Barakat. We remind Mr Chirac, that in 1925, our people in south Lebanon shed their blood in defense of their traditional friendship with France.
Arab money is more valuable to France than faithful allies.