To be cowardly.
France: Hizbullah not a terror group
Hizbullah is part of Lebanese politics and must not be regarded as a terror organization, said the French Foreign Ministry in a statement Thursday night.
The statement was an apparent about-turn by France after President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Hizbullah was indeed a terrorist group when he met with the captured IDF soldiers’ families in Paris last week. Thursday’s statement was prompted by protests from Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
So a terror group’s leader objects to terror group being properly called a group of terrorists, and some minister sticks his tale between his legs and recants the Prime Minister’s statement faster than you can say “White Flag”.