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June 22, 2004
Many Jews Set To Flee France

Anti-semitic incidents are accelerating at such a rate in France that Jewish Agency officials believe tens of thousands of Jews may immigrate to Israel -- and a top Nazi hunter is urging them to get out now.

The prominent French Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld bluntly told the Jerusalem Post this weekend that French Jews would be better off leaving their country.

"One of the lessons of the Holocaust is that even if you want to fight against a wave of anti-Semitism, the best [thing] is to leave if you can," he said, and noting Arab-Jewish tensions he added:""There will be an escalation of attacks [against Jews] in Europe, and especially in France."

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Jewish Agency said a report compiled by the agency had found 30,000 out of France's 575 000 Jews were considering leaving for Israel and he characterized French Jews' situation as increasingly "difficult." This comes on the heels of French Justice Minister Dominique Perben reporting that 180 anti-Jewish acts had been recorded so far this year.

Many Americans often seemed puzzled (and some enraged) by France's attitude towards the war on terror and especially by the events leading up to the Iraq war. But there is a reason -- internal domestic politics...and that's why the Jewish community finds itself increasingly beset with blase, half-hearted or blatantly incompent government responses to accelerating hate crimes. Front Page magazine noted:
France is home to the largest Muslim community in Europe -- estimated between 5 and 8 million, roughly over 10 percent of France’s total population. In the past few years, the radical element of these French citizens has grown quickly, and is quietly overpowering more moderate Muslim voices. Many French Muslims idolize Osama bin Laden and consider the destruction of synagogues and assault of Jews to be justified retribution. These worrisome phenomena are caused by a number of things: increasing influence of radical imams in French mosques, the penetration of Saudi Wahhabism and extremist satellite networks spreading their propaganda.
Nazi Hunter Klarsfeld offers a bleak verdict of the situation: he feels "things cannot improve" in France for Jews. And he attributes the growing number of attacks to the way the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is beamed into French Muslims' homes by rabble-rousing Middle East Arab TV stations via satillite, plus France's foreign policy which he calls "openly pro-Arab." The final ingredient in the mix, he says, is "years and years" of French public and media support for the Palestinian cause.

This has implications for the United States because all this taken together makes it clear France will never support U.S. Middle East foreign policy, even if the Bush administration is replaced by a Kerry administration.

In the longrun, as the Arab population there increases in size and political clout, it also means less support for the United States in what will be a decades long war on terror. If France has been an ally but iffy at times, it'll likely be more iffy more times in the future.

(The Real Dummy thanks Allah Is In The House for the tip.)

Posted By Joe Gandelman at June 22, 2004 02:06 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Starting to get the feeling that the radical Islamo-Bolshiveks have taken a page from the Libertarian Party's "Free State Project"...

The "west" wont let you build a bomb?

No problem! Take over a western nation that already HAS one.

Posted by: eric at June 22, 2004 07:53 AM

I'll never forget being deployed to Saudi Arabia in support of OSW (Operation Southern Watch). There were like 4 nations doing joint air operations to enforce the UN's southern no fly zone. France had troops & aircraft there, but didn't fly missions with us. They were there for "training".

Training apparantly consisted of pointing antennae at our secure facillities containing classified materials as well as giving the Iraqi's a wake up call whenever we launched sorties. I will always be suspicious of that countries intentions.

Posted by: HullBreach at June 22, 2004 08:47 AM

We have a new and unexpected enemy my dear friends and fellow countrymen. Through donations it has supported terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas in sponsoring terror against innocent people

It has supported decrepit and corrupt regimes, doing everything short of directly giving them weapons of mass destruction.

It conspires with our enemies day by day through a corrupt oligarchy that rules without care or regard of human life. Many lives have been lost last summer due to negligence and ignorance.

The time has come.

We must liberate France and end this threat to America and the free world once and for all.

Posted by: Chaz at June 22, 2004 10:45 PM

OTOH, if only 10% of the population can hijack the other 90% like this, France has problems other than just a burgeoning muslim population.

Posted by: TBox at June 22, 2004 11:14 PM

With a strict aversion to making decisions between right and wrong, France's descent into anarchy is not so surprising. The last French revolution was a bloody terrible mess. Is it about to be repeated?

Posted by: daniel at June 23, 2004 08:19 AM

So when was the last time the French picked a winner? Most of them spent WWII in their wine cellars when they weren't busy turning their Jewish neighbors over to the Nazis for cigarettes.

When NATO was formed to counter the Soviet threat in the '50s, France would have no part of it. They formed their own Force de Frappe consisting of ballistic missile submarines and an air strike component, but who was sure who their target would really be?

France is one of the cradles of western civilization but please don't ask them to raise a hand to defend it. They're simply not up to it. Their amoral, irreligious socialist society is too busy being bred out of existence by the Religion of Peace. Creams and sauces, and ponderously gothic movies regarding social graces, that they can manage. World leadership was 900 years ago.

Posted by: torpedo_eight at June 23, 2004 10:45 PM

Actually, Napoleon was between 1 and 2 hundred years ago.

Posted by: TBox at June 24, 2004 01:37 AM

Is it too late to dissassemble Lady Liberty and send her back to France on the first freighter?

Posted by: GPA at June 24, 2004 02:46 AM

France is not an ally. The only question is when do they become an enemy?

Posted by: FooFoo at June 26, 2004 06:31 PM

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