Challenging for (dogs me arrive food especially bitten scratched four official, 2008 alone, there were 350 sentences for racial offenses, including for racial insults. Given how rigidly the French government restricts and controls both speech and the media, the important role of Hebdo and other publications like it is even more poignant. fact, Hebdo editors are known for defying the government's recommendations and publishing material deemed controversial. Hebdo has always kept its insolence, and since the caricatures crisis, it has become a symbol of press independence, said Patino, director of the journalism school at the Institut d'Études Politiques de known as Sciences Po, a recent New York Times article. The debate about caricatures overlapped others about freedom of speech and religion. It became the most visible. http: french-censorship-and--hebdo_b_6438450.html KathJuliane Once one gets past the distractions of the raging controversy centered on presumably state-funded Hebdo, when fact the French press is state funded and controlled, it's time to look again for Cui Bono? The heinous acts today won't be the last. Bibsy Nutteryahoo Israhell, of course. As +BN connected the dots, it's related to Palestine, and now the Jews are spelling out how the shooting incident and all of the drama help them with Palestine's complaint to the ICC on Jewish war crimes. Also, the Zionist state is really located Europe. Who knew? Read on. Excerpted from Monitor Pulse: A few years ago, before the Arab broke out the Middle East and became a gloomy, rainy I had a talk with a former senior official 's Bet on condition of anonymity. This 's entire life was dedicated to the war against terror; acquiring him a personal and even intimate familiarity with radical Islam. At the time, he told me, sometime the next decade, become one of the safest places the Middle East. Afterward, it become one of the safest places Europe. The massacre at the Hebdo offices caught the middle of a fierce, emotional dispute regarding the decision of 's military advocate general Maj. Gen. Efroni to conduct a series of criminal investigations into some of the harsh battles of the Protective campaign. Topping the list are the events of Aug. 1, the day when the body of 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin was snatched and the Defense Forces invoked the Hannibal Directive at the presumed site of the abduction, the southern Gaza Strip. This tactic is used by the IDF whenever the abduction of Israeli combat soldier or officer is suspected. Under such circumstances, the IDF delivers heavy fire on the suspected area with all the means at its disposal, to avert the abduction at any price. On Aug. 1, some dozens of Palestinians were killed, most of them civilians, as a result of the IDF fire intended to avert the kidnapping. The abduction was indeed prevented, because a Givati brigade officer risked his life to enter the tunnel into which Goldin had disappeared. The officer managed to bring back remnants of the body, thus saving from another Gilad Shalit affair and preventing a scathing new national trauma that could have completely transformed the Israeli agenda. This week, the Israeli media was filled with petitions and exclamations from officers and combat soldiers who oppose criminal investigations against those who IDF uniforms and fight defense of the state and its citizens. I was asked this week by a senior officer the Southern who asked not to be named, Who agree to volunteer for a combat unit and wage war against Hamas Gaza if he knows that no one back him up and that sometime or other, after the battles are over, someone try to incriminate him? Our strength lies our solidarity and the knowledge that the entire Israeli people stands behind its fighters. when it turns out that jurists also stand around listing all kinds of errors and mistakes that are made the heat of battle, people think twice. But there are no less convincing rationales on the other side of the coin. Since the Palestinians have already signed the Rome Statute and are preparing to submit a complaint to the Criminal Court The Hague against for supposed war crimes during the course of the Protective campaign, IDF investigation give the ICC's prosecutor the ladder from which to descend from his tree.