What is the problem with the French establishment and Israel?

A few years ago it was Daniel Bernard, France's Ambassador to the UK (Palace of St James really) who called Israel a '"shitty little country". Now YNet report that:

'Microphones accidently left on after G20 meeting pick up private conversation between US, French presidents. Sarkozy admits he 'can't stand' Israeli premier. Obama: You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day!

French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly told US President Barack Obama that he could not "stand" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that he thinks the Israeli premier "is a liar."

According to a Monday report in the French website "Arret sur Images," after facing reporters for a G20 press conference on Thursday, the two presidents retired to a private room, to further discuss the matters of the day.

The conversation apparently began with President Obama criticizing Sarkozy for not having warned him that France would be voting in favor of the Palestinian membership bid in UNESCO despite Washington's strong objection to the move.'

Have the French really moved on from the Dreyfuss affair? Was the collaboration of Vichy France with the Nazis in the matter of sending hundreds of thousands of Jews to their death in the gas chambers really an aberration? Is the French establishment so full of Arabists that they make the British Foreign Office seem impartial?