Chirac seems particularly eager to appease the US these days. I hear that the US government (and cooperating media) are protecting Chirac from very incriminating documents pertaining to illegal cash donations from Arab oil sources to his notoriously corrupt campaigns over the years and decades. Did the US find information about Saddam's donations to Chirac back in the 1970s when Chirac's wife was overwhelmed with the gifts that vice-president Saddam was sending? So France summoned Iranian ambassador over remark about the destruction of Israel. Will France summon Israeli ambassador over the actual destruction of Palestine by Israel?