Political timing?

You know it's funny
I was reading just the other day that France opposed the Israeli offensive.
I thought Sarkozi was the president of the E.U
Makes you wonder if the Israeli's knew that France would not be agreeable to a ground war, and waited until the Czec's were in their turn for the mouthpiece of the E.U .

France officially hands over the six-month rotating presidency of the 27-member bloc to the Czech Republic on Jan. 1

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