8. FRENCH NOVEL IN PRAISE OF SUICIDE TERRORIST
A new best-selling French novel for teens, entitled, "Rever la Palestine" 
(Dream of Palestine), sympathetically portrays a young Arab who becomes a 
suicide bomber - and the Simon Wiesenthal Center is spearheading a major 
protest.  The author is herself only 15 years old, an Egyptian living in 
Italy, who writes about Palestinian teenagers fighting "bloodthirsty Jews 
who assassinate children and old people, profane mosques, and rape Arab 
women."

One of the novel's heroes calls for Jihad against the Jews, "a doomed 
people," and to "kill all Israelis." The main character in fact blows 
himself up along with five Israelis.

The book, published by Flammarion, France's third largest publishing house, 
quickly sold out in major bookstores in Paris.  Flammarion is a subsidiary 
of the Italian media giant Rizzoli Corriere della Sera, owner of one of the 
largest Italian daily newspapers, as well as Rizzoli bookstores in the 
United States. The Wiesenthal Center is urging

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Amazon France and other French online websites to stop selling the book, 
which it says is "full of libelous accusations and which clearly incites 
racist violence and validates terrorism."