Stardate 20011221.0705 (On Screen): Another day, another less-than-convincing disclaimer from French Ambassador Bernard.
He had not used an expletive to refer to Israel, and had only brought up its small size to contrast its huge geopolitical importance, Charpentier said.
Just to review, the original report was that he characterized Israel as "that shitty little country" and asked why the world should risk World War III for them? So he's denying that he said "shitty", but admitting that he made a comment more or less along these lines. This is even less convincing than his last denial where 
he claimed not to remember it at all. (discuss)
