CHIRAC COMES THROUGH

After the Malaysian prime minister’s Nazi-like outburst, Jacques Chirac makes sure that the EU’s condemnation isn’t too strong:

At their own summit in Brussels, Belgium, European Union leaders had drafted a harshly worded statement condemning Mahathir’s remarks, but French President Jacques Chirac blocked the wording from becoming a part of a final declaration.
The text had said Mahathir’s “unacceptable comments hinder all our efforts to further interethnic and religious harmony, and have no place in a decent world. Such false and anti-Semitic remarks are as offensive to Muslims as they are to others.”
Chirac, however, said there was no place in an EU declaration for such a text. EU leaders compromised by having Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi criticize Mahathir at his closing news conference. Officials said the draft text also would be issued as a separate statement and would be posted on the EU presidency Web site.

The French anti-Semitic? Where did anyone get that idea from?