Hi,
I'm french and in the news in France, they don't show the reality of the conflict in Israel, which is : every day, since the beginning of the intifada, palestinians are killing or trying to kill israelis. For example, on the Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com), you can read about several palestinian attacks every day and the french people don't know about it. The question is why the french government is hiding these facts to their people ? First possible response : economic reasons : the arabs have petrol and are very good customers, the money is more important for France than the morale. Israel has no petrol and is a tiny country with technology, not a good buyer. Second possible response : in WWII, in which continent the jews were killed and all the political leaders knew about it ? in Europe of course, not in USA. Antisemitism is still a reality in Europe but it must not be shown.
About the constant critics of french about USA, the reason is that in France, if a neighbour brings some day an expensive car, this french will be jealous, in USA, it's not the case. So same in world, USA is number 1 in army, technology, economy, movies, music, olympic games so the french are jealous.