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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today, Wednesday, 27 Adar 5772 met with French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe ahead of the levaya for the Toulouse terror attack victims.� The following remarks at the start of the meeting:

�I welcome French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe to Jerusalem.� I wish that the meeting could have taken place under better circumstances.� I appreciate the clear and decisive stand that has been taken by President Sarkozy and the French Government against this horror.� I believe that the struggle against terrorism requires greater clarity.� Terrorism is a systematic and deliberate attack on civilians, a deliberate attack against children.

�There is a substantial difference between such deliberate attacks against civilians and children and unintentional strikes against civilians that are part of legitimate actions to fight terrorism.� If we do not make this distinction, if we allow such a mendacious analogy, then the terrorists will have won.� If we make this moral distinction, then we will have defeated terrorism.

�I believe that this is the position of France; this is the position of Israel.� I also think that we must fight this extraordinary propaganda against Israel and Jews everywhere, against innocents, which leads these people to perpetrate such barbaric acts.� I believe that we stand together on all these issues and this has been made clear in recent days.� I would like to express the appreciation of the Israeli people, who alongside the French people were shocked by this barbaric act, to the French Government.�

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(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)