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Renegade
4/24/2002 (16:51) |
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I noted the following sentence in the Jerusalem Post article:
'In related news, the World Jewish Congress is holding an emergency meeting of 100 Jewish leaders from 25 countries in Brussels yesterday and today to talk about the rising threat of European !anti-Semitism, which in France alone accounts for 20 incidents a day.'
It is particularly misleading to talk about 'European anti-Semitism' accounting for 'anti-Semitic incidents' in France. As far as I can gather just about all such incidents which have occurred recently in France (burning and defacing of synagogues, a recent attack on a Jewish football team, etc.) have been committed by young North African Arabs. While some of the culprits might be nominally 'French' by citizenship, they are not ethnically European and it is unlikely that they consider themselves to be either French or European.
What may be true, however, is that more and more Europeans are gradually waking up to the double standard of those organisations and individuals who constitute the 'Jewish lobby': on the one hand, support for aggressive, expansionist Jewish nationalism in Palestine, no matter how many thousands of Palestinians are killed; on the other hand, screams of horror about 'racism' and 'hate' whenever Europeans merely reject the wonders of 'multi-culturalism' and 'diversity' and express their wish to live in peace and security among their own kind in their own homelands.
On this subject, things are getting quite amusing here in France at the moment. The local 'Hitler reincarnation' (Jean-Marie Le Pen) came second in the first round of the presidential election last Sunday, beating the Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin to take second place, and will run off against the incumbent Clown President Jacques Chirac on May 5th. Media 'consternation' is at an all time high! Of the two remaining candidates for the Palais de l'Elysée, one is a 'Holocaust Denier'!! The 'darkest hours of our history' could be upon us again! The 'artists and intellectuals' are 'mobilising' against him! 'Spontaneous' demonstrations by students and schoolchildren are being organised! The Republic is in danger! Man the barricades! (Sorry, woman and man them! Person them!) No pasaran!
This will, of course, be the easiest 'anti-fascist struggle' in history, as Le Pen (unfortunately) has no chance of winning the second round whether anyone 'mobilises' in the meantime or not (some of the more violent forms of 'mobilisation' might actually win him more votes, but surely not enough to win). But I can only hope that the 'absolute horror' of France having a pro-French president who talks common sense will not be too far away.
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