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		<title>France’s Anti-Semitic Nightmare</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Brown]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The land of enlightenment becomes the land of darkness.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Paris_riots.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248056" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Paris_riots.jpg" alt="Paris_riots" width="295" height="166" /></a>The Land of Enlightenment is fast becoming the land of darkness for France’s Jewish citizens.</p>
<p>And many in the French Jewish community have been aware of this sad situation for some time, a realization that was reinforced by the attack on two synagogues by Muslim rioters in Paris last summer during the Gaza conflict. But the latest shocking, anti-Semitic crime that occurred early in December in the same city has deepened the community’s feeling that the possibility of living peaceful lives with a Jewish identity in France is rapidly disappearing.</p>
<p>The latest outrage produced by France’s growing anti-Semitic climate, found especially in its Muslim community, concerns the brutal and horrifying robbery of a Jewish family in their home in Creteil, a Parisian suburb. Three gloved and masked men, armed with pistols and a sawed-off shotgun, gained entrance to the family’s apartment after ringing the doorbell. Present in the apartment were a young man, 21, and his 19-year-old girlfriend, who answered the door. Both were immediately tied up and robbed of jewellery, cellphones, computers and bank cards.</p>
<p>“They said they knew we had cash in the flat ‘because Jews have money and they never keep it in the bank’,” the young man, identified only as Jonathan, said in an interview on French radio.</p>
<p>But the worst was yet to come. While one of the robbers left to use the bank cards, the man and his girlfriend were placed in different rooms, and the young woman was then raped.</p>
<p>Police arrested the suspects soon after the robbery, while a fourth accomplice is being sought. French law does not allow the immediate publication of their identities; but a German newspaper reported their first names as Ladji, Yazine and Omar, while a British publication stated two were “of African and North African origin.”</p>
<p>French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve stated the “anti-Semitic character” of the attack “appeared confirmed.” Unsurprisingly, the savagery perpetrated on the young Jewish couple also may not have been the gang’s first violent, anti-Semitic crime. Police suspect the criminals of having beaten a man in his seventies in Creteil in November because he was Jewish. Two young Jews, aged 18 and 23, were also viciously assaulted last May in the same suburb, which is home to many Parisian Jews. The two victims had just left their synagogue on a Saturday evening. Their assailants are unknown.</p>
<p>Regarding the home invasion, it was reported the gang had been monitoring their target for some time. It was reported that a couple of days before the robbery, one of the criminals had even gone to the apartment under a phony pretext to check whether Jews really lived there. The gang verified the family’s religious identity when the father appeared wearing a kippa.</p>
<p>“The horrible side of this aggression is its premeditation,” Haim Korsia, the grand rabbi of France, told <em>Le Figaro</em> newspaper. “It is not a crime of opportunity. It was thought through and reflected on. This act was ripened through a deeply rooted hatred over a length of time. It is therefore a very serious act that poses the question about the cohabitation of different persons in a same space.”</p>
<p>Some French Jews, however, have been answering with their feet the “cohabitation” question Korsia brings up. According to the German newspaper, <em>Die Welt</em>, immigration of French Jews to Israel is set to almost double over last year, when 3,280 left for the Jewish state, an increase of 70 percent over 2012. French Jews also formed the largest group of new immigrants to Israel this year. France has the largest Jewish community in Europe with an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 members.</p>
<p>According to <em>Le Figaro</em>, young, French Jewish families are also leaving France for Israel both because of the country’s increasing anti-Semitism, which, they believe, endangers their children, and the French economy’s poor performance. Parents fear putting their children into Jewish schools and summer camps because of anti-Semitic attacks. And who can blame them when one recalls French jihadist Mohammed Merah, who murdered four people, three of them children, at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012. Muslim rioters yelling “Death to Jews” in Paris during last summer’s anti-Israeli demonstrations have probably spurred others to head for France’s exits.</p>
<p>Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky is the director of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the country’s official immigration organization. In an interview with <em>Die Welt</em>, he related a telling incident concerning anti-Semitism in France and the fear it has engendered.  Accompanying a plane full of French Jews immigrating to Israel last summer, he said he asked the passengers, after they had received instructions concerning how they should react to rocket attacks in their new country, whether they had any fear?</p>
<p>“And they answered me: ‘No, in France we had fear. That’s over with here; we don’t have to hide’,” recalled Sharansky.</p>
<p>Sharansky also stated in the interview that anti-Semitism in parts of Paris has become so prevalent, it is dangerous even to go for a walk wearing a kippa.</p>
<p>“The threat here in Israel is different. Here, one can fight for his home,” he said. “In Europe, on the other hand, especially in France, the feeling is becoming stronger and stronger among Jews that they don’t have a home there anymore.”</p>
<p>And they most likely won’t, at least in France, if the political reaction to the anti-Semitic outrage in Creteil is anything to go by. The right words of condolence and outrage were said afterwards by all officials about the tragedy, but solutions to counter France’s growing Jew hatred were noticeably lacking.</p>
<p>President Francois Hollande serves as a good example of this phenomenon. He called the rape and robbery “unbearable violence” and “an assault on all France holds dear,” adding it proves the “fight against anti-Semitism must be carried out every day.” However, what Hollande left unsaid was how this fight was to be conducted and how it could be won.</p>
<p>Moreover, while Hollande says anti-Semitism must be fought, his Socialist Party (SP) supports a pro-Muslim immigration policy, since the SP views France’s six million strong Muslim community as its voting and ideological constituency. An increase in Muslim immigration, however, is a disaster for any struggle against anti-Semitism, as Jew hatred is highest among French Muslims. Many arrive in France from North African and other Islamic countries already possessing a strong hatred for Jews.</p>
<p>Korsia found it encouraging that “the social body” in France felt revulsion over the crime in Corteil, which, to him, was a “note of hope.” France’s Grand Rabbi would now like to see both Muslims and Jews approach each other and “encourage dialogue between the religions …especially, to reinvest in the national community.”</p>
<p>“It is necessary to work ceaselessly to make France a place of intelligence, of sharing, of respect, and to fight against those who do not want this,” he said.</p>
<p>Despite Korsia’s excellent, humanitarian intentions, however, the cards appear to be stacked against him. It is difficult to see how civilised dialogue will ever stop Islamist brown shirts, steeped in a deep, SS-like Jew hatred, from committing future barbarisms similar to that in Creteil, if not worse.</p>
<p>But France’s people should take note. A similar, virulent and violent anti-Semitism destroyed another leading European state 70 years ago. And if Jew hatred in France is left unchecked, their country appears destined for a similar, tragic fate.</p>
<p>“The hate against Jews in France is only the beginning,” warns Sharansky. “History shows that there, where Jews are being excluded, other people later become victims of the same ideology.”</p>
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		<title>ISIS Calls for Poisoning and Running Down Westerners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Danielle Avel]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorist group calls on Muslims in the West to do their duty. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/isis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246076" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/isis-450x253.jpg" alt="isis" width="304" height="171" /></a>In a new video, ISIS threatens to murder Westerners through a wide range of new means, including poisoning of food and drink and hit-and-run attacks.  This marks an increase in ambitious threats as ISIS (also known as Islamic State, ISIL, and Daesh) calls on Muslims to wage “jihad in the path of Allah” using easily accessible weapons.</p>
<p>The seven-minute video, entitled, <i>What Are You Waiting For</i>, opens with a group of Francophone ISIS fighters denouncing the West and throwing their French passports into campfire. French is the spoken language in the video, which also contains Arabic and English subtitles.  One jihadi known as Abu Osama Al-Faranci, states: “This is a message from your French brothers who have made Hijra, to the Muslims who are still living in the land of Kufr.”  In other words, it is an appeal by ISIS fighters who have emigrated to lands controlled by the Islamic State to Muslims living in the land of the infidelity.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-246046" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed1-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="413" height="269" /></a>Though the fighters in the video mostly speak to Muslims living in France, they also have a broader audience in mind; for instance, Abu Maryam al-Franci addresses “those Muslims in France and elsewhere.”</p>
<p>The jihadis featured in the video implore Muslims to make “Hijra” and emigrate to lands controlled by the Islamic State. But if Muslims do not emigrate, Abu Maryam (holding a machine gun and a machete) reminds them, “Indeed you have been ordered to fight the Kafir [unbeliever/non-Muslim] wherever you find him” and encourages Muslims in the West to attack civilians in their home countries.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-246049" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed2-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed2" width="450" height="293" /></a>Abu Salman al-Faranci introduces new methods to entice potential terrorists living in the West to commit murder in France, telling them to “terrorize them and do not allow them to sleep due to fear and horror.” Abu Salman continues, “There are weapons and cars available and targets ready to be hit… Kill them [infidels] and spit in their faces and run over them with your cars.” He goes on: “Even poison is available, so poison the water and food of at least one of the enemies of Allah.”  Abu Maryam hopes that infidels “will even fear travelling to the market.”</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed3.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-246051" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/unnamed3-450x293.jpg" alt="unnamed3" width="450" height="293" /></a>ISIS has proven itself successful at recruiting thousands of fighters from Western countries to join its ranks.  Should this resonance continue and jihadis living in the West heed the new ISIS call, it would have dire consequences for non-jihadi Muslims; any driver, waiter, or grocery clerk could be perceived as a terrorist in waiting.  For all of us, ISIS’ latest message hopes to turn a stroll down the street into a walk of terror and to turn our food and drinks into recipes for murder.</p>
<p><i>Danielle Avel is an investigative researcher and photojournalist. She can be reached through her </i><a href="http://danielleavel.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>website</i></span></a><i>, on </i><a href="https://twitter.com/DanielleAvel"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Twitter</i></span></a><i> @DanielleAvel and on </i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Avel.Danielle"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Facebook</i></span></a><i>.</i></p>
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		<title>Muslims are 7.5% of France, 60% of Prisoners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm sure they're only moderates]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;m sure <a href="http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2014/10/26/more-than-half-of-french-prisoners-are-muslims-report/">they&#8217;re only moderates who were arrested f</a>or crimes of peace. (via <a href="http://thereligionofpeace.com/">Religion of Peace</a>)</p>
<blockquote><p>Muslims in French prisons reach up to 60% claims France’s UMP party deputy Guillaume Larrive.</p>
<p>The conclusion drawn by Larrive in a report as part of an action plan “against Islamist radicalisation in prison” This action plan is now likely to involve several hundred prisoners, Le Figaro reported.</p>
<p>The report estimates that 60% of the prison population in France, that is to say 40,000 prisoners, can be considered Muslim, “culturally or originally”.</p>
<p>French deputy Larrive, who has worked on the budget of the Prison Service for 2015, calls for “setting up specialized anti-radicalization shock therapy units (USAR) for prisoners returning from jihad”…</p></blockquote>
<p>Or&#8230; and here&#8217;s a wild idea, don&#8217;t take them back. It seems like France has prisons packed full of Muslims already.</p>
<p>Trying to &#8220;deradicalize&#8221; ISIS Jihadists seems ambitious when France, like the UK and the US, can&#8217;t even prevent ordinary prisoners who aren&#8217;t Muslim from turning Muslim and going Jihadist. Muslims routinely run prisons. Try &#8220;deradicalizing&#8221; them.</p>
<p>But these numbers show that even apart from definite ideology, France has a major Muslim crime problem. Let&#8217;s set aside the phony extremist vs moderate continuum and concede that one does not need to be a devout Muslim or to be directly acting in its name to have absorbed its attitude of entitlement and xenophobia.</p>
<p>And to act on that sense of entitlement through criminal activity. That&#8217;s where the grooming mass rapes in the UK came from.</p>
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		<title>Socialist President of Bankrupt France Pledges $1 Bil for Global Warming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“France is sick." ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.iol.co.za/business/news/france-is-sick-economy-minister-1.1752393#.VCd6BPlr7J8">Someone obviously </a>read Obama&#8217;s <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20140923-france-holland-pleges-one-billion-dollars-climate-change-fund-un-summit/">handbook on governing</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Crisis-hit France is “sick”, the country&#8217;s new economy minister said.</p>
<p>“France is sick. It&#8217;s not well. We have to describe the situation as it is,” Emmanuel Macron told French radio.</p>
<p>Added to its economic woes, the country is weighed down by a political crisis that has seen President Francois Hollande plumb record lows in opinion polls and a shock cabinet reshuffle in August to purge dissenters.</p>
<p>The government&#8217;s unpopularity “is due to a lack of results”, said Macron.</p></blockquote>
<p>But President Hollande, the garden gnome of European politics, has the cure. More Global Warming ecoscam spending.</p>
<blockquote><p>French President François Hollande announced that France will contribute $1 billion to a near-empty global fund to help developing nations adapt to the effects of climate change as he spoke at a United Nations climate summit on Tuesday.</p>
<p>“France will contribute a billion dollars over the next few years,” Hollande said.</p>
<p>Previously, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been the only leader to make such a large contribution, pledging $1 billion over four years in July to the fund known as the Green Climate Fund.</p></blockquote>
<p>At least Germany has the money, which is more than France has.</p>
<blockquote><p>Hollande said. “There will have to be a new pricing system for carbon which will have to serve as a signal for the way we use it. We have to bring into play what finance has in terms of imagination and shift to it to serve the good of planet. We need to define a new economy for the world.”</p></blockquote>
<p>He has failed miserably at the current economy. Might as well try a new one.</p>
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		<title>France: &#8220;A Complete Rejection of Socialist Policies.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["You need to defend yourself, your community, society and country.”]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/frances-socialist-party-loses-grip-on-upper-house-1411934417">Maybe it will be our turn next</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>France&#8217;s ruling Socialist Party lost its grip on the upper house of Parliament Sunday, its third electoral defeat in six months&#8230;  Conservative candidates won a large chunk of the 170 seats that were up for re-election, according to preliminary results released by the Senate.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a complete rejection of Socialist policies,&#8221; UMP senator Roger Karoutchi told BFM TV.</p>
<p>The preliminary results also highlighted growing support for Marine Le Pen&#8217;s far-right National Front, which has seized on widespread popular disillusionment with Mr. Hollande. The National Front won two seats on Sunday—a first for the far-right party, which had never had representatives in the upper house.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/28/us-france-senate-idUSKCN0HN0UN20140928">About that.</a>..</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;These results are beyond what we hoped for,&#8221; said Le Pen. &#8220;Each day that passes, our ideas are increasingly being adopted by the French people&#8230; We have great potential.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There is only one door left for us to push and it is that of the Elysee,&#8221; said newly-elected National Front senator Stephane Ravier, referring to the French presidency.</p></blockquote>
<p>And the NF is picking up support <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/09/23/news-opinion/world/frances-national-front-gaining-among-jews-with-tough-stance-on-arab-anti-semitism-1">from some surprising quarters</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>From the window of his Paris home, Michel Ciardi can see into the waiting room of a government welfare agency where a predominantly Arab and African crowd awaits government checks.</p>
<p>A former communist, Ciardi once believed the scene at the agency was a necessary element of French efforts to help integrate new immigrants. But that changed in 2000 after the second Palestinian intifada triggered a massive increase in anti-Semitic violence, much of it committed by Arab and African immigrants.</p>
<p>The violence was enough to shift his political allegiance to the National Front, a far-right party long demonized by French Jews as anti-Semitic and a threat to republican values.</p>
<p>“I never considered voting National Front,” Ciardi told JTA. “But I realized you need to defend yourself, your community, society and country against those seeking to subdue us.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>France Admits Paying Hostage Ransoms to ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2014 21:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's called plausible deniability]]></description>
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<p>Or rather France admits by denying <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/hollande-faults-europe-for-scottish-independence-drive-1.1934076">or denies by admitting it</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>US and British officials have criticised France for “buying out” hostages. Four French journalists were freed by IS at Easter.</p>
<p>Asked why French hostages were freed, while US and British hostages are beheaded, Mr Hollande said: “France does not pay ransom. Nor does France exchange prisoners.<strong> That doesn’t mean other countries don’t do it to help us.</strong> I concede that.”</p>
<p>Referring to the French journalists in Syria, he added, “We did everything we could and we succeeded because other countries helped us.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s called plausible deniability. Though this isn&#8217;t even plausible. It&#8217;s barely deniability.</p>
<p>Are other countries (Qatar) paying these ransoms to ISIS out of the goodness of their hearts? Doubtful. Are they getting something in exchange. Obviously.</p>
<p>Why are they paying these ransoms for French hostages but not for British or American hostages? Obviously because there&#8217;s an arrangement in place.</p>
<p>So France gets its hostages ransomed through a third party as part of an unspecified arrangement. Hollande&#8217;s hands officially remain clean while remaining unofficially very dirty.</p>
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		<title>1 in 6 in France Support ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[France does host one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe]]></description>
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<p>France does host one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/16-french-citizens-support-isis-poll-finds-266795">so the results are not especially surprising.</a> Also France draws more Middle Eastern and North African Muslims than the UK does. If you asked about support for the Taliban, you might get better numbers in the UK.</p>
<blockquote><p>One in six French citizens sympathises with the Islamist militant group ISIS, also known as Islamic State, a poll released this week found.</p>
<p>The poll of European attitudes towards the group, carried out by ICM for Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya, revealed that 16% of French citizens have a positive opinion of ISIS. This percentage increases among younger respondents, spiking at 27% for those aged 18-24.</p></blockquote>
<p>Again not surprising, as Muslims and other Third World immigrants represent a larger share of the under 30 population.</p>
<blockquote><p>Newsweek’s France Correspondent, Anne-Elizabeth Moutet, was unsurprised by the news. “This is the ideology of young French Muslims from immigrant backgrounds,” she said, “unemployed to the tune of 40%, who’ve been deluged by satellite TV and internet propaganda.” She pointed to a correlation between support for ISIS and rising anti-Semitism in France, adding that “these are the same people who torch synagogues”.</p>
<p>France is home to an estimated 5 million Muslims, largely of North African descent, who arrived from the 1950s onwards in the wake of France’s decolonisation and the 1970s &#8216;regroupement familiale&#8217; policy, which welcomed the families of migrant workers from ex-colonies.</p></blockquote>
<p>Some have questioned the survey results because Muslims don&#8217;t make up even 1 in 6 people in France. It&#8217;s possible that the poll oversampled Muslims. The lack of demographic data from the pollster makes it hard to tell.</p>
<p>There have been suggestions that these numbers represent approval from the domestic European far right and far left. That&#8217;s possible, but they more likely represent general support from Third Worlders in France.</p>
<p>The true number of Muslims in France is under debate. France isn&#8217;t supposed to legally count ethnicity or race. So when your estimates are 5 to 10 percent of the population, there&#8217;s obviously a lot of room for error.</p>
<p>Considering how many Muslim settlers have had children on French soil, counting immigrants alone is not enough.</p>
<p>And there are a whole lot of Third Worlders who aren&#8217;t Muslim, but who are anti-France and would instinctively and stupidly identify with ISIS even though it would kill them.</p>
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		<title>France Ignores Obama, Will Supply Weapons to Kurds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Irak?src=hash">#Irak</a> Avec le président <a href="https://twitter.com/masoud_barzani">@masoud_barzani</a> <a href="http://t.co/mQzQbj8Gtp">pic.twitter.com/mQzQbj8Gtp</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Laurent Fabius (@LaurentFabius) <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurentFabius/statuses/498446846537515008">August 10, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Barzani is the President of Kurdistan, but whoever runs Fabius&#8217; Twitter feed doesn&#8217;t seem interested in clarifying that. That can be read as a signal of its own. France is backing the Kurds.</p>
<p>Officially the US is still refusing to supply weapons directly to the Kurds. Unofficially the Kurds claim to be getting weapons through the CIA. That may or may not be true.</p>
<p>Meanwhile France has rather unsubtly announced that <a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/france-looking-supplying-iraqi-kurds-arms-fm-200607589.html#a03WmUc">it&#8217;s going to supply weapons to the Kurds</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>France, in consultation with its EU partners, is looking at supplying arms to Iraq&#8217;s Kurds to fight against Islamic State jihadists, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Sunday.</p>
<p>&#8220;One way or another, they must receive, in a sure way, equipment that will allow them to defend themselves and to counterattack,&#8221; Fabius told France 2 television from Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will look into that over the coming days but in liaison with the Europeans,&#8221; he said from the city, which is not far from the IS frontline.</p>
<p>Fabius reiterated that France&#8217;s military would not intervene in Iraq without UN Security Council authorisation and a threat to French nationals. &#8220;But we commend the work the Americans are doing.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The subtext here isn&#8217;t very subtle. France will work through the EU rather than NATO. There&#8217;s also a dig at American unilateralism, this time under the great multilateralist Obama.</p>
<p>Considering that France casually invades countries that the UN Security Council has never even heard of, this sudden multilateralism is meaningless hypocrisy.</p>
<p>Despite some noises, it looks like France intends to avoid direct intervention in Iraq, but will be more aggressive about arming the Kurds and possibly other players. And Fabius is actually on the ground in Baghdad and Erbil. If anyone is likely to push the Iraqis one way or another, it&#8217;s the French, who for all their folly are actually able to conduct some kind of diplomacy.</p>
<p>On Twitter, Fabius keeps talking about European solidarity.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Allons-nous nous impliquer militairement ? La réponse est non <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Irak?src=hash">#Irak</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/20H?src=hash">#20H</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/France2?src=hash">#France2</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/France2_Infos">@France2_Infos</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Laurent Fabius (@LaurentFabius) <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurentFabius/statuses/498531992980684800">August 10, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>That&#8217;s certainly a &#8220;no&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>UK, Germany, France Endorse Hamas Demands on Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>It&#8217;s official. Hamas is the new PLO.</p>
<p>And<a href="http://myrightword.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/german-foreign-ministry-mistranslates.html"> three major European governments now endorse</a> its demands for free weapons smuggling into Gaza.</p>
<blockquote><p>From the Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of France, the United Kingdom and Germany on the situation in Middle East (as per IMRA) who are Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister of France, Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister of Germany&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;To be sustainable, a ceasefire must envisage steps to address both Israeli security concerns and Palestinian requirements regarding the lifting of restrictions on Gaza.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Israel has security &#8220;concerns&#8221; while Hamas has &#8220;requirements&#8221;. And you know which takes priority. Concerns or requirements.</p>
<p>As<a href="http://myrightword.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/german-foreign-ministry-mistranslates.html"> Yisrael Medad points out</a>, the <a href="http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN/Infoservice/Presse/Meldungen/2014/140809_FR_GB_DE_Nahost.html">German version explicitly </a>calls for lifting the blockade of Gaza. The <a href="http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/israel-territoires-palestiniens/la-france-et-les-territoires/situation-dans-la-bande-de-gaza/article/situation-a-gaza-declaration">French version </a>sticks to the &#8216;restrictions&#8217; language.</p>
<p>But perhaps this was translated from the original German in more ways than one.</p>
<p>French FM Fabius was<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/08/04/france-gaza-war-may-require-imposed-solution-fabius-condemns-deaths-children/"> unusually aggressive before</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>France&#8217;s foreign minister is calling on the international community to impose a solution on Israel and Hamas, saying the warring sides have shown themselves unable to negotiate.</p>
<p>He said a cease-fire, followed by a two-state solution, is needed and &#8220;should be imposed by the international community because, despite numerous attempts, the two sides have shown themselves to be incapable of concluding negotiations.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I suppose this would be a good time to ask, &#8220;You and what army?&#8221; Israel isn&#8217;t Cote D&#8217;Ivoire or Mali, though Fabius may not be clear on that.</p>
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		<title>‘Exodus’ – French-Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 04:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Brown]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Semitic violence has France’s Jews heading to the exits.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/An-ultra-orthodox-Jewish-001.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237557" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/An-ultra-orthodox-Jewish-001.jpg" alt="An-ultra-orthodox-Jewish--001" width="318" height="234" /></a>The lights are going out in the land of the Enlightenment.</p>
<p>The violent, anti-Semitic nightmare Europe thought it would never see again after the Nazi Holocaust is raising its ugly head once more, this time on French soil.</p>
<p>Jew-hatred, mostly among France’s six and a half million Muslims, is reaching such threatening proportions that an increasing number of the country’s 500,000 Jews feel forced to leave their native land to ensure their safety. At one Jewish agency that assists French Jews to emigrate to Israel the telephone, it was reported, “does not stop ringing.</p>
<p>“For 2014, one will have to register a record number of departures of French Jews for Israel since its creation in 1948,” the agency’s director told the French newspaper <i>Le Figaro</i>. “It will safely exceed 5,000 people. In 2013, there were already 3,300, an increase of 73 percent compared with 2012.”</p>
<p>And one can expect the numbers to climb even higher after the recent displays of Jew-hatred in France that “shocked” and “dumbfounded” the country’s Jewish community. In two demonstrations on successive July weekends in central Paris, demonstrators, mostly Muslims of North African and Middle Eastern descent, allegedly protesting Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, shouted anti-Semitic slogans, attacked police, burned vehicles and damaged stores.</p>
<p>Authorities banned the second demonstration after the first one saw two synagogues and a kosher grocery store attacked, all accompanied by shouts of ‘Death to the Jews’. But the ban didn’t make any difference. The demonstration went ahead anyways. Mob rule and barbarism won out over law and order. And the government’s apparent powerlessness, or unwillingness, to enforce the ban was very noticeable.</p>
<p>“Saturday at the synagogue, there was only talk of packing one’s suitcases,” said the publication manager of a Jewish newspaper after the riots. “One has the feeling that this is only the start, that this is going to become more radical&#8230;”</p>
<p>According to <i>Le Figaro</i>, some young, French Jewish families are leaving both because of the country’s increasingly anti-Semitic climate, which, they believe, endangers their children, and the French economy’s poor performance. Representatives of France’s Jewish community told the newspaper parents fear putting their children into Jewish schools and summer camps because of possible anti-Semitic attacks. And who can blame them when one recalls French jihadist Mohammed Merah, who murdered four people, three of them children, at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012.</p>
<p>“In the face of civil society’s indifference, one senses a keen anxiety of some families concerning their ability to lead a quiet life of Jewish identity in France,” said the emigration agency director.</p>
<p>While this indifference is disturbing enough, the outright support the demonstrators receive from leftist segments of the French political class is equally disconcerting. France’s radical left parties, such as the Green, Communist and New Anti-Capitalist Party have made an alliance with the anti-Semitic demonstrators from the ‘banlieues’ (France’s immigrant ghettos). The New Anti-Capitalist Party, for example, helped organise the first demonstration, and a mayor, also a Green Party member, took part in the banned protest.</p>
<p>This alliance, according to French philosopher Robert Redeker, is due to radical leftists having abandoned their traditional hope of using the working class as the instrument to destroy society. To the radical left’s eternal disappointment, French workers were not revolutionary enough. But Muslim rioters are. In them, the extreme left sees the proletariat’s replacement in carrying out the historic duty of violent revolution.</p>
<p>Members of radical left parties have also made statements that are outrageous in content but nevertheless contribute to the increasingly poisonous and threatening anti-Semitic climate facing France’s Jews. For example, a French deputy to the Europe-Ecology-The Greens (EELV), another environmental political outfit, justified the attacks on the synagogues, claiming on Twitter they are like “embassies.</p>
<p>“When the synagogues are acting like embassies, it is not surprising that they are subjected to the same attacks as an embassy,” he wrote.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, the communists were also not behind in making similar, illogical claims to rationalise the violence and Jew-hatred. France’s Communist Party, along with the other radical left parties, was upset authorities banned the second demonstration. It issued a communique calling this measure a “very serious and extremely worrying hindrance concerning the right to demonstrate.” The communique also claimed “small, pro-Israeli groups” were the cause of the first demonstration’s “acts of violence and incitements to hatred.”</p>
<p>Well, one has to admit, it is nice to see someone finally calling for human rights and freedom of political expression while waving the hammer and sickle. But it seems to have escaped the French communists&#8217; notice, along with their party’s history between 1917 and 1991, that it was rioting, anti-Semitic Muslims attacking synagogues and not Jews attacking mosques that led to the ban. Besides, Islamists hardly need anyone to incite them to hate Jews. They’re self-starters.</p>
<p>One communist deputy to France’s national legislature even asked President Francois Hollande, in an open letter, to ban the Jewish Defense League (JDL), whose members defended the synagogues during the attacks. He called the JDL a “criminal, fascist organization,” since it was equally “responsible for the provocations” that led to the violence. Again, this particular communist politician needs a serious history lesson when it comes to “a criminal, fascist organisation.”</p>
<p>France’s mainstream Socialist Party (SP), which currently rules the country, is also a cause for concern. The head of France’s Jewish student union said Jewish students are still waiting for the government to “provide not only answers regarding security, but real proposals to re-establish co-existence in our neighbourhoods, our universities.</p>
<p>“We are posing questions on the ability of the Republic to protect its citizens,” he said.</p>
<p>These students might have to wait a while longer, however, if the SP’s left wing is charged with finding security and co-existence solutions, since it appears to be in the anti-Israel camp. Thirty-three SP deputies of the National Assembly signed a joint communique “for peace and justice in the Middle East” that was sent to media outlets. It called for “French and European authorities to use all their influence to stop immediately and without delay the violence which has been going on since July 8,” the date of Israel’s Gaza invasion. No mention was made of the rockets Hamas had fired at Israel prior to this date that brought about the Israeli military response.</p>
<p>“Together, we have the duty to use our freedom of expression and right to demonstrate peacefully,” the communique further stated.</p>
<p>Understandably, some editors took the communique as a SP call to demonstrate against Israel’s Gaza intervention at an upcoming protest march. Several signatories immediately denied this and blamed the media for misinterpretation, professing their opposition to anti-Semitism. However, about 30 SP deputies did take part in the authorised demonstration, which went off peacefully, possibly because the organizers had to put up security guarantees.</p>
<p>But the socialist deputies’ presence at the demonstration can be understood in a different, darker context as concerns France’s Jews. After the synagogue attacks, Francois Hollande, France’s president and SP leader, declared the fight against anti-Semitism “a national priority.” But the fact that a block of his party’s national deputies chose to be present at an event where anti-Semitic outbursts, possibly violent ones, could have occurred, shows they are not interested in any project that rejects this evil, even one initiated by their own leader. This also casts doubt on their professed anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Even worse, the Socialist deputies’ presence at the protest can be viewed as a silent endorsement of the previous demonstrations’ anti-Semitic violence. While the extreme left directly supports such vileness by openly blaming the Jews, mainstream socialists are doing the same, but indirectly and with subtlety. Which can only encourage further, anti-Jewish attacks.</p>
<p>France’s Jewish community should also not place much hope on their country’s political class resolving the deteriorating security situation, which, some believe, is now not only unresolvable but “explosive.” Hollande himself, for example, switched from a pro-Israeli position at the start of the Gaza conflict to one now termed “balanced.” This was obviously done to please France’s Muslims, which his party regards as a voting constituency. So after first appearing resolute in supporting Israel, he is now vacillating. France&#8217;s Jews can probably expect similar treatment in the future, especially around election time. Besides, one also must be quite cynical to begin with to be able to strike a “balanced” position between Israel and Hamas.</p>
<p>Considering the recent anti-Semitic riots and jihadist attacks their community has endured over the years, including murders, it is no surprise Jews are fleeing France in record numbers. And it is wise they do so, since, with increasing Muslim immigration, one can only expect a corresponding rise in anti-Semitism. No one speaks of a decrease.</p>
<p>But the best reason for France’s Jews to emigrate was revealed in the open letter the communist deputy sent to Hollande, calling for the JDF’s banning. By wanting to strip the synagogues of any defense, such as the JDF represents, the radical left displays its true goal, albeit its short-term one, which is for France to have its own ‘Kristallnacht’.</p>
<p>This also converges nicely with the aims of their anti-Semitic Muslim allies, already experienced in destroying synagogues and churches in Islamic countries. In a nice, Nazi-like touch, the radical left can also be expected to twist any future synagogue destruction to appear as the French Jews’ own fault. The two allies’ long-term goal, which, history has shown, occurs after a ‘Kristallnacht’, is a second Holocaust.</p>
<p>So when anti-Semitic demonstrators are yelling ‘Death to Jews’ on central Parisian streets, France’s Jews should realize they mean it. Some of those leaving now know that they do.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Gaza war, Jew hatred takes center stage. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_ARP3924221-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236280" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_ARP3924221-2-450x300.jpg" alt="-" width="278" height="185" /></a>Since the commencement of Operation Protective Edge, there has been a surge of anti-Semitic attacks in Western Europe. That should come as no surprise to anyone watching developments there. With rising Muslim populations and concomitant Islamic radicalism, anti-Semitism in Europe will continue to manifest itself in ever increasing lethality and numbers. The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9154350/Toulouse-shooting-little-girl-cornered-in-school-and-shot-in-head.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Toulouse</span></a> and <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182194"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Brussels Museum</span></a> shootings are not aberrations by crazed gunmen. These acts were calculated and are the product of a medieval society that encourages xenophobia taught within the context of religious indoctrination.</p>
<p>Mosques and Islamic parochial schools throughout Europe have become bastions of radicalism, where anti-Semitism and hatred of Western values are ingrained into impressionable young minds. Ironically, those who impart and perpetuate the hatred have been <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/welfare-jihad-islamist-calls-taxpayers-slaves-encourages-muslims-to-go-on-welfare/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">living off the fat</span></a> of those very institutions they claim to despise.</p>
<p>But this is old news. European anti-Semitism in both its traditional form and its current Islamofascist manifestation is nothing new.  Many who harbor anti-Israeli feelings are honest enough to make no distinction between their hatred of the Jewish State and Jews.  Then there are those intellectually dishonest types, like <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://observer.com/2013/12/the-anti-semitic-stench-of-pink-floyd/">Roger Waters</a>,</span> who claim that they only have a problem with the existence of Israel and that some of their best friends are Jewish. And then there’s the last category of naïve types, often uninformed radical leftists, who believe that animosity toward Israel and Judeophobia are mutually exclusive. For anyone ignorant enough to fall within the last category, Operation Protective Edge should dispel any lingering doubt about the true nature of anti-Israelism and its integral undercurrent of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Israel’s current counterinsurgency campaign and its efforts to protect its citizens from indiscriminate terrorist rocket attacks has inspired closet anti-Semites and other assorted judeophobes to come out of the woodwork. On Twitter, the hashtags <a href="http://twitchy.com/2014/07/12/vile-stuff-out-there-jake-tapper-notes-pathetic-hitlerwasright-trend/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#HitlerWasRight</span></a> and <a href="http://twitchy.com/2014/07/12/vile-stuff-out-there-jake-tapper-notes-pathetic-hitlerwasright-trend/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#HitlerDidNothingWrong</span></a> have gone viral prompting Jake Tapper of CNN to note that there’s “vile stuff out there via hashtags.”</p>
<p>In Morocco, the Rabbi of that nation’s tiny Jewish community was <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182824"><span style="color: #0433ff;">severely beaten</span></a> as he was walking to his synagogue while passersby ignored his pleas for assistance. His crime? He was a Jew, which seems to be the only prerequisite.</p>
<p>In France, an Islamist mob <a href="http://www.shalomlife.com/news/24581/palestinian-demonstrators-attempt-to-break-into-paris-synagogues/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tried to storm</span></a> two Jewish synagogues trapping a group of worshipers for a period of time before the racist hooligans were dispersed by police. Two Jews and six policemen were hurt in the melee. The attack comes on the heels of a <a href="http://forward.com/articles/201997/paris-shul-firebombed-as-anti-semitism-flares-acro/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">firebombing of a synagogue</span></a> in a Paris suburb and an anti-Semitic assault on a 17-year old girl by an Arab who called her a “dirty Jewess” and threatened that, “inshallah [she] will die.” Demonstrators in another Paris suburb chanted “slaughter the Jews,” and “death to the Jews.”</p>
<p>In Germany, <a href="http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2014/7/14/anti-israel-protest-in-germany-turns-violent"><span style="color: #0433ff;">neo-Nazis and Islamists joined forces</span></a> in a demonstration against Israel that turned violent. To placate the hooligans, frightened German police allowed the Nazis and Islamists to commandeer a police vehicle and utilize the vehicle’s megaphone to broadcast anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slogans.</p>
<p>The vitriolic bigotry that we are witnessing today is not limited to Islamist hooligans running amok in Europe but has also found its place in the highest echelons of state government. Western governments have become so inured with Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism that official state sponsored anti-Semitism emanating from the Mideast’s Arab and Islamic nations are routinely ignored. Jews are commonly referred to as the <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/16/morsi-claims-descendents-of-apes-and-pigs-remark-is-out-of-context-as-new-vid-of-him-slamming-obama-surfaces/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">descendants of apes and pigs</span></a>, the Holocaust is dismissed as a <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/exposing-abbas-5335"><span style="color: #0433ff;">fabrication</span></a> and government papers habitually display <a href="http://blog.adl.org/international/arab-editorial-cartoons-say-obama-and-romney-controlled-by-jews"><span style="color: #0433ff;">grotesque cartoonish depictions of Jews</span></a> with exaggerated and contorted features and the West, with the exception of Canada and Australia, remains shamefully stoic in the face of such outrages.</p>
<p>But state sponsored anti-Semitism, masquerading as anti-Israelism has found comfort and haven outside the Mideast as well. In Turkey – a country governed by the narcissist thug, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – a popular pop singer tweeted “<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/turkish-singer-tweets-may-god-bless.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">may God bless Hitler</span></a>” and &#8220;<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/turkish-singer-tweets-may-god-bless.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bring the end of those Jews</span></a>.&#8221; The tweet was greeted with support by government officials. Ankara’s mayor and senior member of the ruling Justice and Development Party, Melih Gökçek voiced support for the tweets calling them “full of intelligence,” though he had enough common sense not to retweet the reference to Hitler.</p>
<p>In a perverse and reviling distortion of reality, South Africa’s leading political party issued a statement that <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/south-africas-ruling-party-compares-gaza-op-to-nazi-crimes/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">compared</span></a> Israel’s efforts to combat terrorism to crimes perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II. The statement, riddled with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and factual inaccuracies, was issued by the ANC’s deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte.</p>
<p>There is perhaps no greater form of anti-Semitism than that which denigrates the memory of the Holocaust and its six million victims while at the same time, absurdly accusing Jews of perpetrating a new Holocaust. Yet this abomination and anti-Semitic canard is routinely regurgitated among the bottom feeders and the ANC now has the dubious distinction of being added to that disgraceful club.</p>
<p>While Israel faces existential threats from its Arab neighbors and Judeophobia takes hold in Europe and elsewhere, the Obama administration and its cowering allies in Western Europe allow the disease of anti-Semitism to spread, fester and otherwise go unchallenged. We’ve witnessed this shameful apathetic behavior in the past and our inaction then led to the biggest calamity the world has ever known. The world looks to the United States for leadership and moral guidance but the administration’s shameful silence in the face of such evil is proof that it is pathetically devoid of both.</p>
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		<title>Syrian Jihad Comes to France</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 04:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[French jihadists return home.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nemmouche534.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226859" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nemmouche534-450x253.jpg" alt="nemmouche534" width="322" height="181" /></a>Last February, French authorities broke up a terrorist plot they described as “imminent,” seizing nine hundred grams of explosives from the apartment building of a twenty-three year-old Islamist recently returned from Syria where he was suspected of having waged jihad. Two men escaped the police raid, in which several wills were also found, one belonging to a 25-year-old man described as “a candidate for the jihad.”</p>
<p>“This case is emblematic of that which one has always feared,” a police source close to the investigation told the French newspaper, <i>Le Figaro, </i>at the time, explaining that young French Muslims who had participated in the Syrian jihad and returned “radical, trained, hardened” with a terrorist project in mind are France’s newest terrorist threat.</p>
<p>This fear became a reality for French authorities when Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, a French Muslim and veteran jihadist of the Syrian war, was arrested Friday in southern France “in possession of firearms and large quantities of ammunition.” Nemmouche is suspected of having killed three people in a shooting rampage in Brussel’s Jewish museum on May 24. After the arrest, police apparently found a video he made, claiming responsibility for the attack.</p>
<p>The French government’s growing concern about the danger posed by returning jihadists to France (and now to other countries) manifested itself last April when Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced a plan to prevent young French Muslims from leaving home for Syria. Once there, they join the al-Qaida-connected al-Nusra Front to battle the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Some also enlist in the even more extreme terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). All of which only deepens their radicalization and hatred for the West.</p>
<p>The French government’s plan contains about 20 measures, chief among which is a “green number”, active since April 29, which people can privately inform authorities about potential jihadists. In its first ten days of operation, the anti-jihad “green number” was reported in the French media to have registered 24 cases (18 by phone and six by internet) of interest to authorities. They involved people between the ages of 14 and 34, of which eight were women and 16 men.</p>
<p>“These calls have already established five actual departures for Syria,” an interior ministry source told <i>Le Figaro</i>.</p>
<p>But opposition political leader Marine Le Pen of the National Front Party called Cazeneuve’s plan “cosmetic.”</p>
<p>“It does not attack the root of the problem, the speech in some mosques that are genuine calls to jihad,” Le Pen told a French radio station. “Nor does the plan attack recruiters and funding from foreign countries known to support terrorist fundamentalism, such as Qatar.”</p>
<p>What triggered France’s sudden concern for citizens and residents taking part in the Syrian war three years after its outbreak was not security issues but rather the deaths of two young brothers killed there last December. They were part of a group of 12 young French Muslims that had left France to fulfill their jihad duty in Syria. The brothers’ deaths and this group’s departure “unleashed a mobilization against jihadist indoctrination” in France early this year.</p>
<p>But another, perhaps more important, reason regarding the French government’s sudden interest in returning French jihadists concerns numbers. Cazeneuve revealed the disturbing fact that the number of Syria-bound French jihadists has increased 75 percent over the past few months. Security officials are calling this “an unheard of exodus.” Altogether, according to Cazenueve’s figures, 285 French Muslims are currently involved in “the Syrian quagmire,” 120 are in transit, a further 100 had returned to France and about 30 have perished in the conflict.</p>
<p>These are astonishing numbers when compared to the approximately 50 French jihadists intelligence officials identified as having taken part in the Afghanistan jihad from 2001 to 2011. In total, about 2,000 European Muslims are believed to have reached the Syrian battlefields, according to the military news website <a href="http://strategypage.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>strategypage.com</i></span></a>. About 100 Americans jihadists are also believed to be in Syria, one of whom last week became the first American suicide bomber there.</p>
<p>And as if all this wasn’t cause enough for concern, French authorities have admitted they will not be able to keep track of the expected large numbers of returning jihadists, stating that surveillance “is going to cost a fortune.” In other words, they will be overwhelmed &#8211; if they aren’t already. One observer perhaps illuminated this unsettling situation best when, using dark humour, he commented that, at this rate, there will be so many former French jihadists from the Syrian war the government will have to build a veterans homes for them.</p>
<p>The extent of the France’s jihadist problem is actually worse than Cazeneuve portrayed. There are also French citizens waging jihad in North Africa as well as in Yemen where two French nationals were recently arrested in connection with the war al-Qaeda is waging against Yemen’s government. So the number of current and former French jihadists is actually estimated by some at about 800. But this may not include those flying under the radar and as yet unknown to authorities.</p>
<p>To give an idea of the extent of the European jihadist phenomenon, according to <a href="http://strategypage.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><i>strategypage.com</i></span></a>, Turkey, a major entry point to Syria, currently has a list of about 4,000 European Muslims that their governments believe are jihad bound and have asked be detained. Turkey has caught and returned about 500 so far.</p>
<p>Some of the French jihadists have been arrested upon their return to France and put on trial for associating with a terrorist group. But, if convicted, the punishments they receive are usually light. And if they are minors, then none at all.</p>
<p>One of the problems the French legal system faces in prosecuting returned jihadists is that they have not committed a crime on French soil. It is also sometimes difficult to establish whether they actually joined a banned terrorist group when abroad. Some of the accused have said they had left France simply to go on holidays<i>. Le Figaro</i> reports that there are currently 40 cases before the courts regarding French jihadists. Some concern crimes, such as armed robbery, committed by jihadi hopefuls before leaving France to finance their trip to the Syrian battlefields.</p>
<p>Some of the reasons offered for jihad’s attraction for young French Muslims range from poor integration into French society (between 50 and 60 percent of men in French prisons are Muslim, although Muslims make up only ten percent of France’s population), testing the limits of authority of a society that has set few for young people, and the doctrine of Islamic supremacy. The latter is inculcated by radical preachers who do not like non-Islamic societies and do not accept that other religions are equal to Islam. Rather, France and other western countries must become Islamic, by force if necessary.</p>
<p>Because of the large numbers of French Muslims taking part in the Syrian jihad and the resulting danger they represent, many in France are now questioning the meaning of French citizenship. This issue may now become a burning one after Nemmouche’s arrest.</p>
<p>It is currently argued that returning jihadists may be French nationals, but are citizens only on paper. In addition, many French jihadists, like the two arrested in Yemen, possess dual citizenship, often from an Islamic state. As one observer commented, they are not French “neither by culture, nor by their mode of living, nor by any attachment to France.”</p>
<p>“They have only a French identity card,” stated another. “It is the difference between being and having.”</p>
<p>As a result, it has been proposed that French jihadists not be allowed to return to France because of the increasingly visible security risk. Some believe they should not even be prevented from leaving the country, only prevented from returning. This argument was given a boost when four French journalists, kidnapped and held eleven months by ISIL, said after their release last April that some of their captors spoke French. This topic will probably receive greater attention after the Brussel’s tragedy.</p>
<p>Gilbert Collard, a National Front federal parliamentarian, put forward the non-return argument on French television last April after the kidnapped journalists’ homecoming. He prophetically stated it is necessary to prevent the jihadists’ re-entry into France in order to avoid more killings like those committed by Mohammed Merah, a French Muslim terrorist who murdered three Jews and four soldiers in France in 2012. Regarding the danger these jihadists pose, Collard said one would have to be “completely mindless, decerebrated, not to be worried.”</p>
<p>“One is going to have …people who have left to conduct holy war return to French territory trained, equipped and who are going to be unmanageable,” he said.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, due to an unshaken belief in multiculturalism and an attachment to the Muslim vote, France’s socialist government will most likely never adopt Collard’s common-sense, life-saving proposal, especially since he belongs to the party French socialists love to hate. But this unwillingness and inability to look reality in the face and confront the danger radical Islam and jihad pose to France, insures that returning jihadists do not have much to fear in the future, while law-abiding French and European citizens, especially Jewish ones, do.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140524_EUP002_0.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226316 alignleft" alt="20140524_EUP002_0" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140524_EUP002_0-450x290.jpg" width="315" height="203" /></a>A series of stunning election results for the European Parliament have rocked the continent’s political establishment. In France, Marine Le Pen&#8217;s National Front (FN) </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/europe-votes-super-sunday-far-spotlight-090146106.html">scored</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> its first victory in a nationwide vote over both the center-right UMP and President François Hollande’s ruling Socialist party. In England, The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) also </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10855972/Ukip-storms-European-elections.html">notched</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> its initial triumph, beating the Labor and Conservative parties. Both victories were indicative of a surge best described as an anti-EU, anti-mass immigrant wave aimed at establishment politicians and the apparently untenable status quo.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Le Pen minced no words in describing her victory. &#8220;The people have spoken loud and clear&#8230; they no longer want to be led by those outside our borders, by EU commissioners and technocrats who are unelected,” she declared. &#8220;They want to be protected from globalization and take back the reins of their destiny.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The National Front garnered 25 percent of the vote, outpacing the UMP at 21 percent, and Hollande’s Socialists at 14.5 percent. The defeat marks the second in a row for the Socialists, who lost dozens of town halls last March.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The news was </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10855972/Ukip-storms-European-elections.html">just as good</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for UKIP, which captured 27.5 precent of the vote, with Labor at 25.4 percent, and the Conservatives coming in third with 24 percent. UKIP, founded in 1993, gained 23 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) compared to 18 for both the Labor and Conservative parties, and their victory marked the first time since 1910 that a national election was not won by either the Conservatives or Labor. UKIP’s charismatic leader, Nigel Farage, predicted this victory would act as a springboard towards mounting a serious challenge in next year’s general election. “We will go on next year to the general election with a targeted strategy and I promise you this – you haven’t heard the last of us,” Mr Farage said. That targeted strategy includes mounting a challenge in 20 to 30 constituencies next year. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Farage explained the genesis of his triumph. “The political establishment will be terrified by this. They will all have to do a very large amount of soul-searching and realize that the usual platitude ‘We’re listening’ isn’t enough,” he contended, adding that Labor and the Lib Dems suffered the greatest losses as the result of UKIP’s triumph. “It is going to be disastrous for Ed Miliband, disastrous for Nick Clegg and a poor night for David Cameron,” he added. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He also echoed the sentiments of Le Pen. &#8220;The whole European project has been a lie,&#8221; Farage said on a television link-up with Brussels. &#8220;I don&#8217;t just want Britain to leave the European Union, I want Europe to leave the European Union.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Other EU nations realized surprising outcomes as well. In Denmark, the anti-immigration and anti-EU Danish People&#8217;s Party </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/05/far-right-parties-sweep-eu-polls-20145261436233584.html">won</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> its country&#8217;s EU election, garnering 26.7 percent of the vote and four of 13 MEP slots. In Sweden, the Feminist Initiative Party won 7 percent of the vote and representation in the EU Parliament for the first time, while the Green Party surged from percent from 11 percent in 2009 to 17.1 percent, and the Sweden Democrats rose from 3.3 percent to 7 percent over the same period.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In Greece, the left-wing anti-austerity and Euro-skeptic Syriza party captured  26.6 percent of the Greek vote, pushing the current governing party, New Democracy, into second place with 22.8 percent. The extremist Golden Dawn party, a former neo-Nazi organization whose leader and members await trial for crimes including murder, arson and extortion, captured 9.4 percent of the vote, giving them three MEPs. In Austria, the Freedom Party, which ran on halving the nation’s contributions to the EU, a referendum on the EU&#8217;s crucial bailout fund, and yet another anti-immigrant platform, gained 20 percent of the vote.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These results were partially offset by other outcomes. In Italy, Premier Matteo Renzi’s center-left Democratic Party </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303903304579586150978707772">won</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about 41 percent of the vote, marking its best performance to date. The anti-establishment Five-Star Movement, led by former comedian Beppe Grillo, garnered 21 percent of the vote, down four percent from its spectacular win in the general election last year. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservatives claimed victory with 35.3 percent of the vote, but the center-left Social Democrats made strong gains, and the Alternative for Germany, a new anti-EU party created in 2013, gained 7 percent of the vote and first-time representation in Brussels. And in the Netherlands, the right-wing Euro-skeptic Party for Freedom led by Geert Wilders surprisingly lost an MEP, dropping its total to four. Nonetheless, Wilders released a statement saying his party looked forward to working with France’s Le Pen, referring to her as &#8220;the next French president.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The voting began last Thursday in Britain and the Netherlands, but the majority of the 28 EU member states voted on Sunday. Turnout was relatively light. Of the 388 million Europeans who were eligible to vote, only 43.1 percent exercised that right, barely higher than 2009’s all-time low of 43 percent. Turnout was lowest in Slovakia at a record-setting 13 percent, and highest in Belgium at 90 percent where voting is compulsory and a general election was held on the same day. But the overall results were stark: while the combination of pro-EU center-left and center-right parties will keep control of the 751-seat EU legislature, the number of Euro-skeptic MEPs will more than double.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Writing for Breitbart London, James Delingpole </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/26/UKIP-why-these-election-results-matter-and-why-the-political-class-will-tell-you-they-don-t">explains</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that despite every effort by the political establishment to downplay or deliberately misconstrue the results of the elections, it marks the beginning of a revolution &#8220;which will completely transform the face of politics across Europe and which will inevitably lead to the destruction of the European Union.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Furthermore, he explains why in terms that should resonate deeply—with the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">American</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> public. &#8220;What these election results symbolise is the depth of disgust felt across Britain and through continental Europe at the remoteness, incompetence, complacency and dispiriting saminess of the political class (and its amen corner in the mainstream media, in the corporations, in the bureaucracy and the judiciary),” he writes. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It remains to be seen if Americans will reject our own version of top-down bureaucracy populated by a tone-deaf ruling class, determined to embrace such dubious initiatives as comprehensive immigration reform, or global warming legislation&#8211;championed by the mainstream media echo chamber and various members of the corporate class. For the longest time, the American left has yearned for our nation to emulate Europe. If this rejectionist avalanche is any indication, the November mid-term election may indeed see that wish fulfilled in a way that the Left hadn&#8217;t expected.</span></p>
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		<title>0.3% of Jewish Population of France Leaves in 3 Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 15:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of French Jews leaving for Israel has been growing steadily. ]]></description>
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<p>If France didn&#8217;t already have one of the largest Jewish populations in the world, in no small part because of the flight of Middle Eastern Jews from the Muslim world, immigration on this scale would have more of an impact.</p>
<p><a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/05/sharp-rise-in-french-jews-leaving-for.html">As it is, it&#8217;s fairly significant</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The number of French Jews emigrating to Israel rose nearly four-fold in the first quarter of the year and could touch a record in 2014, a Jewish organization said Monday.</p>
<p>The Jewish Agency for Israel, a global body responsible for the immigration and absorption of Jews into Israel, said 1,407 people left France for Israel between January and March against 353 people a year earlier.</p>
<p>The number of French Jews leaving for Israel has been growing steadily. A total of 1,907 left in 2012 and it rose to 3,280 in 2013.</p></blockquote>
<p>If these numbers are correct then half as many French Jews got out in 3 months as in all of last year. It&#8217;s not entirely clear what would have touched off this jump. It may be a growth in local Muslim violence that did not make the national news.</p>
<p>As it is, it once again demonstrates that Islam is incompatible with diversity. A growing Muslim population displaces other ethnic and religious groups who flee its intolerance.</p>
<p>Many of France&#8217;s Jews fled Algeria and Morocco. Now they have to become refugees from Muslim intolerance all over again.</p>
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		<title>Amidst U.S. Retreat, France Scrambles for Strategic Allies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 04:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerome Vitenberg]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old colonial powers turn to one another to maintain security in central Africa. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/os.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224935" alt="os" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/os-450x291.jpg" width="315" height="204" /></a>France’s role in Africa has changed in recent years.  To ensure that it is not perceived as – and does not conduct itself like – a neo-colonial power, its interventions in Africa have sought to accord with its own democratic values of respect for the rights of the people and for the rule of law, even in cases where this brings France into conflict with some African leaders who have become accustomed to a corrupt way of life.</p>
<p>In 1994, approximately one million people were slaughtered in the war crimes committed during the “Rwandan Genocide.” The shocking images of its atrocities increased recognition of responsibility in France and the West for preventing future humanitarian tragedies in Africa.</p>
<p>From a strategic perspective, any descent into chaos in Central Africa would also have consequences in North Africa, itself only a short distance from Europe’s southern shores. This is simply a modern-day application of the Eisenhower domino theory, without its counter arguments related to the occupation of countries by foreign forces: Today, local governments require time-limited Western military intervention to assist their own armed forces.</p>
<p>Combining a more enlightened role and modern strategic needs, Paris, thus currently favours brief UN-mandated military interventions to support African political solutions.  This is precisely the mission of France&#8217;s Operation Sangaris: to bolster the efforts of local armies and the African Union&#8217;s MISCA force in the CAR. However, due to severe financial constraints, France also needs Western and professional partners.</p>
<p>While the EU and the United States have been looked to for this role, inviting these two partners to join as the main contributors to peace-making in Central Africa may not be the most judicious choice. First, seeking military intervention from the EU outside of its borders strengthens its political status, and contributes to a corresponding decrease in the sovereignty of the various European nation-states by effectively ceding it new executive powers in an area that has hitherto been the preserve of the individual members.</p>
<p>Second, asking for financial and military assistance from the United States, the classic sponsor of such operations till 2008, fails to recognize what I have called the “US foreign policy Whirlfall” &#8212; a whirlpool generated by the US retreat from global interventions, reinforced by the windfall that America’s global rivals are reaping from US-imposed policy limitations on its allies. At a time of global retrenchment, President Obama is unlikely to engage in a new military mission in Africa.</p>
<p>Since the Fashoda Incident in 1898, when France and Britain faced off over their respective territorial claims in East Africa, and the signing of the Franco-British <i>Entente Cordiale</i> in 1904, it is Britain that has traditionally been France&#8217;s partner in Africa. With similar African histories, the two countries share the same democratic respect for the rule of law and human rights.  The British, too, understand that their role in Africa is to support the African people and governments, not to re-create a colonial empire.</p>
<p>The two countries already work closely in combating piracy and other maritime and coastal threats, and share human and electronic intelligence. But notwithstanding the British intelligence and logistical support provided for Operation Sangaris, the partnership has much greater potential, for Central Africa itself, as well as for the UK and France. Further, with its defense budget crippled, France has signaled its need for additional British involvement that would not only share the costs of the operation but also strengthen the operation&#8217;s effectiveness on the ground.</p>
<p>The British Armed Forces’ (BAF) operational capacity would offer more than simply logistical support. Expanded Royal Air Force operational missions could be flown in coordination with the French Air Force, while the British Army ground forces could contribute a few regiments of land personnel, both in operational and training roles.</p>
<p>Moreover, beyond the purely military dimension, the British offer an additional area of expertise, one that is critical to strengthening the establishment of civil societies that France is seeking to advance in Central Africa. With its excellent BAF education facilities, many of them affiliated with UK universities, the British have the ability to provide high-quality educational courses to the African armed forces that are in dire need of training to achieve greater efficiency and autonomy. These centres could also provide British academic training to relevant members of the region&#8217;s executive, legislative and judiciary branches, thereby sharing the financial burden of such training which France is now bearing alone. Such assistance would aid in the democratization process and support the regeneration of state institutions.</p>
<p>Britain&#8217;s failure to devote additional resources to stabilizing Central Africa would also be harmful to its future position in the region. Without greater UK involvement, France would remain financially strapped and politically isolated and would have no alternative but to lobby for the creation of a European task force and the implementation of “EUFOR RCA Bangui” approved in January 2014.</p>
<p>Is the UK willing to relinquish its national interests in Africa and cede still more of its national sovereignty by promoting Brussels’ influence?  The alternative is to make some adjustments to the severe budget cuts the British armed forces are facing and allow the UK Ministry of Defense to provide the French with a short-term increase in operational assistance.</p>
<p>With Britain under budgetary pressure, spending 150 million pounds a year – the approximate financial cost for this increased assistance – in an obscure and remote military enterprise whose outcome is uncertain, might seem like an unnecessary expense that should be avoided. Nevertheless, such expenditure would represent less than half a percent of the MoD&#8217;s annual budget.  As removed as Bangui may be from the British consciousness, it would be a small investment given the political, diplomatic, strategic and commercial dividends it will bring the UK in the years to come.  Dispatching a British brigade to the region would breathe new life into a partnership between two nations so famously committed to human dignity.  Surely this is reason enough for the UK to stand up and be counted.</p>
<p>Clearly, the main immediate beneficiaries would be the people of Central Africa who have suffered so much for so long. Assisting the French in Central Africa would represent a clear fulfillment on a humanitarian obligation.  Yet it would also keep France from becoming pushed into a corner in which it would be at the mercy of Brussels.  Finally, it would put London &#8220;on the map”, very close to what Winston Churchill described as the “Pearl of Africa”. British support for Sangaris is thus intrinsic to the UK&#8217;s modern global ethos.</p>
<p>Fashoda is approximately a century and 1,500 kilometers away from Operation Sangaris’s arena. Should the UK be supporting the MISCA and the French?  “To be or not to be” – there really is no question.</p>
<p><em>Jérôme Vitenberg is an international political analyst. He has taught Political Science and International relations for the LSE via the University of London’s International Programmes at DEI College, Greece.</em></p>
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		<title>French Muslims Lash Out on Facebook Over Black Interracial Dating</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[”We’ll make all your sisters pregnant, and tomorrow Arab boys won’t exist any more.” ]]></description>
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<p>Multiculturalism doesn&#8217;t mean that a country is not racist. It just means that there are many new complicated flavors of racism between all the new ethnic and racial groups, which happen to be far more racist than the &#8216;racist white natives&#8217; they are displacing.</p>
<p>Take France, Europe&#8217;s future Muslim superpower. There&#8217;s a lot of anger over girls dating black men. Except the girls aren&#8217;t French. <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/french-muslim-teenagers-facemook-kardashian">They&#8217;re Arab Muslims</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Scrolling through Facemook—a sort of Facebook within Facebook, with more than 70,000 members—I stumbled upon countless offensive posts by groups with names such as &#8220;Anti beurette à khel&#8221; (&#8220;No to Arab girls dating black guys&#8221;) and &#8220;Les beurettes utilisent l’Islam pour justifier leurs débauches&#8221; (Arab girls use Islam to justify their debauchery).</p>
<p>Clicking through the groups&#8217; pages, I realized this has evolved into a sort of modern-day witch hunt: Girls&#8217; photos, names, and even phone numbers are posted on the groups&#8217; &#8220;Timelines,&#8221; often with humiliating captions. These girls are criticized for drifting away from Muslim traditions and for using something called the &#8220;Bilal excuse&#8221;—Bilal was the only black companion of the Prophet Muhammad.</p>
<p>Haissam: I don’t think I&#8217;ve ever come across anything like this. There has always been a rivalry between North African teenagers and black teenagers, but it was more like banter. We knew it wasn’t serious. Today, I see a lot of people insulting these girls.</p>
<p>What is their problem?</p>
<p>They are accusing those girls of wearing too much makeup, staying out late at night, drinking, smoking, and using Islam as an excuse to redeem themselves. They say that these girls go out with young black guys because they think North African boys are too narrow-minded and bossy. When Muslim girls are criticized by their older brothers for their behavior, they&#8217;ll say things like &#8220;He may be black, but he is Muslim, so you can not judge us. Only Allah can judge us,&#8221; and that makes the bigots even angrier.</p>
<p>What is the situation like on a daily basis?</p>
<p>If an Arab girl walks with a black boy, they will be pointed at and called names. Some Arab teenage boys see this as a betrayal. A few years back, the problem was Arab girls who dated French boys; they were accused of doing that only to Westernize themselves. Now it’s even worse, though. As this phenomenon is growing, you get black guys fighting back and going around saying stuff like ”We’ll make all your sisters pregnant, and tomorrow Arab boys won’t exist any more.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Multicultural France&#8230; moving forward to a post-racial and very racist future.</p>
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		<title>Indivisible Anti-Semitism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Jew hatred and the BDS movement can't be separated. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/rsz_465197167.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221077 alignleft" alt="rsz_465197167" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/rsz_465197167-430x350.jpg" width="301" height="245" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Indivisible-anti-Semitism-345343">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>On March 19, it will be two years since Mohammed Merah slaughtered three Jewish children and a rabbi in the courtyard of the Ozar Hatorah Jewish day school in Toulouse, France.</p>
<p>Far from being a wake-up call that forced the French to their senses, and compelled them to purge their society of the Jew-hatred that inspired Merah to film himself blowing his victims’ brains out, his act served as an inspiration for other anti-Semites.</p>
<p>According to the French Interior Ministry, anti-Semitic attacks rose 60 percent in 2012 over 2011 levels.</p>
<p>Over the past decade and a half, anti-Semitism has moved from the backroom to the living room throughout Europe.</p>
<p>All aspects of Jewish life are under assault.</p>
<p>Religious observance has become an act of near rebellion against social graces.</p>
<p>In 2009, the British Supreme Court ruled that Jewish schools that followed religious tradition and only admitted children who have a Jewish mother were guilty of racial discrimination.</p>
<p>In other words, the British Supreme Court said that traditional Judaism is racist.</p>
<p>In country after country, campaigns to ban Jewish ritual practices are in full swing. Government after government has passed or moved toward passing bans on shechita, Jewish traditional slaughter of animals. Mila, infant male circumcision, is also under assault. Both, of course, are foundations of Jewish observance.</p>
<p>Denmark is the latest European state to ban shechita. And the movement to implement a similar ban in Britain has grown so popular that Prime Minister David Cameron felt compelled to oppose it during his speech at the Knesset on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Of course, even more popular than accusing Jews of subjecting cows and chickens to monstrous slaughter is the practice of accusing Jews of subjecting Palestinians to monstrous slaughter.</p>
<p>For Europe’s elite, radical and increasingly, violent anti-Zionism has become the anti-Semitism of choice. Among other things, anti-Zionists believe that Israel is inherently illegitimate and necessarily, and purposely, evil. For them, Israel is Nazi Germany.</p>
<p>And supporters of Israel are for them the greatest evildoers in the world. They should be accorded no courtesy, and be treated as human scum.</p>
<p>This has been made clear, most vividly in recent years on college campuses where pro-Israel supporters are run off campuses, shouted off stages and barred from presenting their views.</p>
<p>One recent episode of this sort occurred on March 5 at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where British professor Alan Johnson tried to speak in opposition to an initiative to get the university to join the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.</p>
<p>A YouTube video of the event showed how a mob of BDS supporters prevented him from speaking. They shouted curses at him and his colleagues and demanded they “get the f*** off our campus!” Writing of the experience and the hate movement that stands behind it in The Times of Israel, Johnson reported that the student leading the effort to silence him is the head of NUIG’s Palestine Solidarity Society named Joseph Loughnane.</p>
<p>In 2008, Loughnane said, “The Jews run the American media and push their agenda.”</p>
<p>Johnson wrote that “the border between being radical and transgressive [toward Israel] and being anti-Semitic is now porous.”</p>
<p>Although accurate, Johnson’s assertion understates the problem.</p>
<p>Opposing Judaism and Jews, denying Jewish rights to education and ritual observance, and attacking Jews; and opposing the Jewish state, denying Jews their right to self-determination and attacking supporters of the Jewish state, are two sides of the same coin. There is no border – porous or solid between them. They are one and the same.</p>
<p>And all anti-Semites know it.</p>
<p>On Monday, The New York Times reported that attempts by French authorities to silence the anti-Semitic comic Dieudonne M’bala M’bala have backfired. The performer who invented and popularized the inverted Nazi salute has bridged the divide between French Muslim anti-Semites and French fascist anti-Semites.</p>
<p>The habit of Dieudonne’s fans to have their pictures taken at Jewish sites and Nazi death camps while performing the salute caused French officials to ban his public performances, arguing reasonably that his incendiary anti-Semitic incitement is a threat to public safety.</p>
<p>Rather than listen to authorities and recognize that Dieudonne’s actions are obscene, hateful and dangerous, the official ban on his performances has only raised his popularity. According to the Times, his most recent YouTube video had two million hits in its first week.</p>
<p>The Times argues that by banning Dieudonne, French officials only helped him by raising his public profile and transforming him into a martyr for freedom of speech.</p>
<p>But this is not the real reason that the ban has backfired.</p>
<p>The ban backfired because the French don’t take the government seriously.</p>
<p>How can it be wrong for Frenchmen to parade through the streets of Paris ordering the Jews to leave the country, when the French government also trucks in anti-Semitism? How can French authorities’ 14-year defense of France 2 television network’s invention of the Muhammad al-Dura blood libel be squared with their denunciation of Dieudonne? It will be recalled that in October 2000, France 2’s Israel correspondent Charles Enderlain broadcast a story where he presented doctored footage that created the illusion Dura had been killed while crouching in fear, by venal IDF soldiers in Gaza. That doctored footage served as the impetus for massive anti-Semitic demonstrations, and murderous anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in Israel, throughout Europe and around the world.</p>
<p>In January 2006, Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and tortured to death because he was a Jew.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that during his 26 days in captivity Halimi’s kidnappers telephoned his mother 700 times, during which she heard the tortured cries of her son while his kidnappers recited verses from the Koran over the phone, French law enforcement officials insisted that Halimi’s abduction was a run-of-the-mill kidnapping for ransom, rather than an anti-Semitic hate crime. Consequently they refused to accept that his life was in danger, or that they should devote resources to finding and saving him.</p>
<p>And their denial of the nature of the crime didn’t end when Halimi turned up naked, at the railway siding, with burns over 80 percent of his body, only to die shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>It took French authorities another week to acknowledge that Halimi was murdered because he was a Jew.</p>
<p>Two years ago, French authorities tried to hide the fact that Merah was a Muslim, claiming instead that he was a Nazi. When they were finally forced to acknowledge the truth, they blamed Israel for his crime.</p>
<p>Speaking to reporters, then-French interior minister Claude Gueant said that Merah was associated with al-Qaida and that he was upset about what Gueant referred to as Israel’s “murder” of Palestinian children.</p>
<p>The 17,000 Frenchmen who marched through the streets of Paris on the eve of International Holocaust Memorial Day in January and called for the Jews to get out of France see through French authorities’ hypocrisy.</p>
<p>French and other European authorities who libel Israel by projecting onto the Jewish state the crimes committed by Muslim terrorists against Jewish children do not scare the likes of Dieudonne and his millions of supporters.</p>
<p>They know it is a joke when the same officials who cultivate and legitimize anti-Semitic blood libels profess shock and outrage at their unvarnished Jew-hatred. They are not intimidated.</p>
<p>And they certainly are not convinced of the error of their ways.</p>
<p>The simple fact is that you cannot fight anti-Semitism by endorsing it. The only way you can fight anti-Semitism is by fighting all forms of anti-Semitism, including the demonization and delegitimization of Israel.</p>
<p>The European have good company in denying this basic fact. Senior American Jewish leaders similarly ignore it.</p>
<p>EARLIER THIS month, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee announced their opposition to state bills barring universities from using public funds to fund academic organizations that participate in boycotts against Israel. Bills of this type are being debated by the Maryland and New York state legislatures and are being drafted at the federal level by members of Congress.</p>
<p>Both groups claimed that they oppose the bills even though they oppose the BDS movement, because they claim that such actions limit academic freedom.</p>
<p>Three things stand out in their explanation.</p>
<p>First, preventing taxpayer money from being used to fund campaigns to demonize and criminalize Israel and so promote hatred of Jews has nothing to do with limiting academic freedom.</p>
<p>Second, the actions of BDS activists have nothing to do with academic freedom. By demonizing and intimidating students and faculty who oppose them, their aim is to end both free speech and academic freedom.</p>
<p>And conversely, fighting them advances both free speech and academic freedom.</p>
<p>Finally, it is simply bizarre that the ADL and the AJC felt compelled to weigh in on this issue to begin with. If they didn’t want to be associated with this action, they could have kept their mouths shut.</p>
<p>By entering the fray on behalf of the BDS movement, they gave legitimacy to it, despite their claims that they oppose anti-Israel boycotts.</p>
<p>Both the ADL and the AJC present themselves as among other things, Jewish civil rights groups that aim to defend Jews, including the Jewish state.</p>
<p>And yet, here they are making an artificial distinction between the two – a distinction not shared by the haters.</p>
<p>It is no doubt tempting to accept the artificial distinction between rejecting Israel’s right to exist and rejecting the right of Jews to practice Judaism. Doing so allows you to pretend that the problem isn’t as bad as it is, and to pretend that the fates of Israel and Jews of the Diaspora are not directly linked. It allows you to pretend that Jewish Americans who join the BDS movement are not anti-Semites. And it allows you to pretend that European leaders who minimize real anti-Semitic crimes by equating them with imaginary Israeli crimes are not inherently hostile to Jews.</p>
<p>But you cannot fight Jew-hatred by making distinctions between its various forms. They are all components of the same thing. And either you fight all of them, with no distinction, or you fight none of them, and even legitimize the bigotry.</p>
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		<title>The Douala-Djibouti Corridor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 05:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jerome Vitenberg]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How France is enabling a bloc of non-Islamist, liberal democracies in Africa.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/lk.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218049" alt="lk" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/lk.gif" width="400" height="162" /></a>The current French involvement in the Central African Republic, which follows in the footsteps of its ongoing “Operation Serval” in Mali, has led many to wonder about President Francois Hollande’s goals in his African campaigns.</p>
<p>In recent months, the CAR&#8217;s ex-<i>Séléka</i> Muslim rebel fighters, bolstered by Sudanese and Chadian mercenaries, have waged a campaign of murder, rape and pillage against the country&#8217;s 80% Christian-majority population. With the government in disarray, Christians have organized defensive “<i>anti-balaka</i>” (“anti-machete”) militia groups that have carried out reprisal actions. The spiraling inter-religious violence has displaced half a million people and claimed a thousand civilian lives in December 2013 alone.</p>
<p>The French military “Opération Sangaris,” supported by the African peace-keeping force, MISCA, is engaged in a crisis intervention aimed at stabilizing the CAR and protecting its civilian population. Given the dramatic context, the French action to disarm the various militias, secure the infrastructure necessary for the distribution of humanitarian aid, and re-establish public order is admirable.</p>
<p>Yet, the ramifications of events in the CAR extend far beyond its own borders. The country&#8217;s descent into chaos, indeed, would be like a volcanic eruption in this combustible region, affecting the future of a strip of nations stretching from the Cameroonian port of Douala on the Atlantic to Djibouti on the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.</p>
<p>First, a power vacuum in the CAR would clear the way for Chad to seize the country&#8217;s oil- and diamond-rich north. Instability would also increase on its borders with Sudan and the DRC. A further menace would unfold in the form of attacks against Cameroon by the militant Nigerian jihadist group, <i>Boko Haram,</i> with <i>Al-Qaeda, AQIM </i>and<i> Al-Shabaab</i> likely to join the fray. Moreover, the turmoil would open the door to involvement by extremist groups in the illegal mining and sale of diamonds, precious metals and uranium, with all that implies for regional and global security.</p>
<p>“Opération Sangaris” is named for the Red Glider, a butterfly native to the area, as an expression of its planned short life.  However, the chronic issues in the CAR will not be solved by temporarily imposing order only to allow the cycle of violence to begin again once the forces are withdrawn.</p>
<p>For it is the problem of failed states – ruled by dictatorial regimes that routinely disregard human rights and looting their countries&#8217; wealth, while some Western corporations turn a profitable blind eye – that lies at the heart of CAR&#8217;s troubles and of those of the wider region.  Among the consequences of this corruption is the tragic lack of economic development in a region abundant in natural resources.  With few exceptions and despite limited economic progress (at least in statistical reports), Africa is the only continent to have been left behind the wave of socio-economic growth that raised up much of the Third World at the end of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</p>
<p>Over the past decade, China, Russia and the Arab world have recognized this shockingly under-developed continent&#8217;s immense economic potential and invested heavily in certain countries.  The United States and Europe woke to the opportunity more belatedly.  As President Hollande acknowledged in 2013: “African growth pulls us along, its dynamism supports us and its vitality is stimulating for us. We need Africa.”</p>
<p>With their historical links to these lands, France and the United Kingdom, cooperating under the 2010 Lancaster House security cooperation treaty, are facing a moment of truth.  It is becoming more and more difficult to ignore their obligation to assist the desire of the region&#8217;s peoples for a durable democratization process that will end the incessant cycle of military coups and civil wars.</p>
<p>Visiting Western heads of state routinely promote democracy, accountability, transparency and development.   But unlike most of the countries now sowing the seeds of their future economic interests in Africa, the liberal democracies – and particularly France and the UK – have both the ideological incentive and the tools to act more responsibly.  Their leaders have the statutory and executive power to prioritize business ethics, corporate responsibility and sustainable development in the way their nationals engage in commercial enterprises abroad.</p>
<p>Explicitly translating their national leaders&#8217; words into deeds, corporations should adopt ethical “best practices” in their African business dealings, transforming their signature on commercial contracts into a hand extended in friendship to the local communities, to Africa&#8217;s people, to its youth.  Just as they do at home.</p>
<p>To assist Africa with discarding its chronic socio-economic malaise, France should take a longer view in its current intervention.   This would require turning “Opération Sangaris” into the kernel of a wider initiative to bring security, free-market economic growth and democratic rule of law to a &#8220;Douala-Djibouti Corridor&#8221; of model countries.</p>
<p>Such a corridor would serve three functions. First, it would create the prerequisite stability to improve its peoples&#8217; quality of life.  Second, it would benefit three of its major neighbours – Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya – still struggling with their own transitions towards “full democracy” status.  Third, it would serve as a beacon of hope for the citizens of the authoritarian regimes outside the corridor, guiding them in their journey towards a brighter, freer, more prosperous future.</p>
<p>From Douala in the west through the CAR, South Sudan and Ethiopia to Djibouti in the east, the future of this strip of states will in large measure determine the futures of more than a billion Africans, from the Mediterranean to the Cape.  The CAR capital Bangui is the pivot point, the key to the 21<sup>st</sup> century&#8217;s “New Frontier”.</p>
<p>France&#8217;s “Opération Sangaris” may, at cursory glance, appear more like simply another fire-fighting mission than the start of a recovery for central Africa. But with a little far-sightedness, it could lead to the creation of a “Douala-Djibouti corridor” of liberal democracies, a belt of freedom and hope for its ordinary men, women and children.</p>
<p>As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry revealed in the “The Little Prince,” work is needed before we can enjoy life&#8217;s glories: “We must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if we wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”</p>
<p><strong>Jérôme Vitenberg is an international political analyst. He has taught Political Science and International relations for the LSE via the University of London&#8217;s International Programs at DEI College, Greece, and has been a Sales manager for Africa in the telecommunications industry.</strong></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Labor Negotiations&#8217;: Goodyear Union Kidnaps Bosses</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ALeqM5hwyLOxB8KUtip3H0xzodoj4Yr56Q.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214859" alt="ALeqM5hwyLOxB8KUtip3H0xzodoj4Yr56Q" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ALeqM5hwyLOxB8KUtip3H0xzodoj4Yr56Q-450x305.jpg" width="315" height="214" /></a>This weekend, when management-labor negotiations broke down at a tire factory, employees kidnapped their bosses. Where, you ask, did this happen? In the Central African Republic? Somalia? Burkina Faso? No – in Amiens, France. Turns out it&#8217;s become something of a Gallic custom.</p>
<p>It started this way: Goodyear decided last year that it wanted to wash its hands of the plant; when the French government tried to get another U.S. firm, Titan, to take it over, the company head, Maurice Taylor, Jr., checked it out, found the union confrontational and the workers unproductive loafers, and asked: “How stupid do you think we are?” Unable to find a buyer, Goodyear decided to shutter the operation – but in exchange for letting it do so, workers demanded “severance packages of 80,000 euros, or about $110,000, plus €2,500 for each year worked.” When Goodyear balked, the kidnapping commenced.</p>
<p>Welcome to <i>la belle République</i>, A.D. 2014.</p>
<p>But first a flashback to 2007. About an hour and twenty minutes into <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hHnSlZsVRI"><i>Sicko</i></a><i>, </i>his paean to socialized medicine that was released that year, Michael Moore sits at a table at what looks like a swank Paris bistro with a group of expatriate Americans – young, upscale professional types – who sing the praises of the French health-care system. As they regale him with stories about all the services they get for nothing, or next to nothing, he feigns astonishment. It&#8217;s not just the free first-class medical care. The day care, they tell him, is also terrific – and also virtually free. One of the Americans gushes that because she lives in France she can count on her kids receiving “a certain level of care, a certain education. College, I don&#8217;t have to worry about” because “you get a college education for free.” The French freebies seem well-nigh unlimited: for heaven&#8217;s sake, when you have a baby, the government will even send somebody over to cook and do your laundry for you.</p>
<p>What a country. Everything&#8217;s free! Nobody pays! There&#8217;s a thirty-five-hour work week, five weeks minimum paid vacation, and employment laws that provide almost total job security for everybody, competent or not. What could go wrong? If any of Moore&#8217;s worldly, well-heeled, presumably well educated interlocutors sees any potential problem with this system, there&#8217;s certainly no hint of it in the movie. Yes, one of them does hint that the government would cut back on the largesse if it could get away with it. But it <i>can&#8217;t </i>get away with it: as she explains, “one of the things that keep everything running here” – one of the things, she means, that keep the gravy flowing – “is that the government is afraid of the people, afraid of protests&#8230;.In France, that&#8217;s what people do.” And why, pray tell, would the government want to rein all this in? That question goes unanswered – indeed, unasked.</p>
<p>Seven years after Moore&#8217;s film, the <i>poulets</i> have<i> </i>come home to roost. Indeed, during the last year or so, even publications that one might have expected to join Moore in celebrating the French welfare state&#8217;s munificence have run stunningly frank accounts of its dire consequences. In November 2012, <i>The Economist </i>served up a <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2012/11/fran%C3%A7ois-hollande">piece</a> entitled “Battling French Decline.” Last January, under the headline “France is in free fall,” CNN <a href="http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/09/france-economy-crisis/">reported</a> on the country&#8217;s “shocking deterioration in competitiveness,” noting that its workforce boasts “the lowest number of working hours in the developed world” and the highest social expenditures (“42 euros for every 100 euros in total expenses go to social charges, versus 34 euros in Germany, 26 in the UK, and 20 in the US”). Last June, in a piece <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/economic-decline-in-france-the-failed-leadership-of-hollande-a-903732-druck.html">headlined</a> “Bonjour Tristesse: The Economic and Political Decline of France,” <i>Der Spiegel </i>described the Hexagon as being “in the grip of a crisis”: “The mood hanging over the country is depressed&#8230;.It feels as if the French model had reached an end stage.” In August, the <i>New York Times </i>asked: “can the Socialist government&#8230;pull France out of its slow decline and prevent it from slipping permanently into Europe’s second tier?” And in July, predictably enough, the <i>Times</i>&#8216;s house numbskull, Roger Cohen, put an idiotically positive spin on all the bad news under the headline “France’s Glorious Malaise.” Cohen&#8217;s argument, if you can call it that, was that “French malaise, moroseness and melancholy” is “a perennial state” – “a fierce form of realism,” “a bitter wisdom,” a “badge of honor.”  Yes, he admitted, France is saddled with an unaffordable welfare state, but, hey, it&#8217;s also got “superb medicine, good education, immense beauty, the only wine worth drinking,” and so on. “Better,” he concluded, “to be miserable than a hypocrite, nauseated than naive — and far better to be morose than a fool.” Well, if he knows about anything, it&#8217;s about being a fool.</p>
<p>Then came the November-December issue of the <i>National Interest. </i>In a long essay entitled “The Decline and Fall of France,” economist Milton Ezrati stated flatly that “France&#8217;s economy&#8230;is in profound decline,” and provided the data: “More than one thousand factories have closed in France since 2009….Government in France now constitutes some 57 percent of the entire economy&#8230;.France’s share of global exports has fallen from 7 percent in 1999 to only 3 percent today&#8230;.employers in France pay the government the equivalent of almost 64 percent of their payrolls&#8230;.some 54 percent of the working-age population holds themselves outside the workforce, compared with 42 percent in Germany and 32 percent in the United States.” France, concluded Ezrati, “is beginning to resemble a less developed economy.” (Of course, a major factor in this decline – but one that hardly any of these accounts so much as mentions – is the presence within the French borders of some five to ten million Muslims, a high percentage of whom are social clients.)</p>
<p>Even after all these tales of gloom and doom, however, a <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/fall-france-225368">piece</a> published last week in the just-relaunched <i>Newsweek </i>counted as a head-turner. Under the headline “The Fall of France,” Janine di Giovanni recalled Louis XIV&#8217;s persecution of the Huguenots, “the worker bees of France,” hundreds of thousands of whom fled the realm for safer climes. Today&#8217;s France, like the Sun King&#8217;s, is suffering a “brain drain”: now that productive Frenchmen – those who actually earn a decent living by the sweat of their brow – are taxed at rates upward of 70 percent, “there has been a frantic bolt for the border by the very people who create economic growth – business leaders, innovators, creative thinkers, and top executives. They are all leaving France to develop their talents elsewhere.” Two years ago, part-time <i>Parisienne</i> Claire Berlinski <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_diarist-france.html">observed</a> in <i>City Journal </i>that while “France can no longer pay for its comfortable way of life,” Paris still felt “like a city whose troubles are far away.” No more, says di Giovanni: “the past two years have seen a steady, noticeable decline in France. There is a grayness that the heavy hand of socialism casts.” Di Giovanni, herself a British expat living in the City of Light, has been at the receiving end of a lot of the government goody bags that were acclaimed by Michael Moore&#8217;s American-expat pals, but she, unlike them, recognizes some of those perks as “pure waste”: for example, after she gave birth, the government – without even asking her if she wanted it – sprung for twice-a-week physical-therapy sessions so she could lose her baby fat. Di Giovanni summed up the whole sad situation by quoting a corporate lawyer: “France is dying a slow death. Socialism is killing it.”</p>
<p>Last fall, a cousin of mine who lives in Paris drew my attention to a story that perfectly demonstrates just how France is doing itself in. Monoprix, a big supermarket chain, wanted to extend its opening hours and do business on Sunday as well. It would&#8217;ve been good for the economy – and for the chain&#8217;s employees, who backed the idea. But France&#8217;s largest union, the extremely powerful General Confederation of Labor (CGT), threatened Monoprix with an 80,000-euro fine for every worker affected. So that was the end of that.</p>
<p>So it goes in France these days. While protecting even the most unproductive employees by making it almost impossible to fire anyone, the government punishes entrepreneurs brutally. “You&#8217;d have to be crazy to start a business here now,” my cousin lamented recently. The self-employed are drained dry: “you almost pay more to the state than what you can gross in a year,” he told me. In order to be able to declare and pay taxes on his hard-earned freelance income, he was obliged to cough up a hefty fee – around seven thousand euros the first year, ten thousand the second – for the right to identify himself as a “microenterprise.”</p>
<p>“No one in France,” wrote Berlinski two years ago, “seems to have grasped the connection between the country’s army of ceaselessly striking civil servants and the prospect of economic doom.” Well, some of them plainly grasp it now. But all too many, it appears, are – like those American expats in <i>Sicko </i>– still in heavy denial, enjoying their free ride while clinging to the illusion that it&#8217;ll go on forever. Moore, with his socialist magical thinking, was doubtless sure when he made that stupid film that if only Americans kicked up more of a fuss, as the French do, they could live like kings – getting not only free health care, but free <i>everything –</i> while not necessarily doing much of anything to pay their way. Now, however, as Ezrati notes, France, far from being able to cure everyone&#8217;s ills without cost, is itself increasingly being described as the “sick man of Europe” (which, Ezrati adds, is “quite a distinction at a moment when Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy share the hospital ward”). As it turns out, Moore was absolutely right to single out France as a splendid example for Americans. He just didn&#8217;t realize it was a <i>cautionary </i>example.</p>
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		<title>French City with 40% Muslim Population is the Most Dangerous City in Europe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Marseille.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-214087" alt="Marseille" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Marseille-450x270.jpg" width="450" height="270" /></a></p>
<p>The <a href="http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/marseilles-is-now-30-40-muslim-excessive-violence-riots-and-rapes-are-turning-it-into-the-most-violent-city-in-europe/">French city of Marseille has an estimated</a> <a href="http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/press-releases/muslims-marseille-feel-abandoned-their-city">30 to 40 percent</a> Muslim population and has been ranked <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130627-debate-Marseille-gangs-out-of-control-part1/">as the most dangerous city in </a>Europe.</p>
<blockquote><p> The gritty Mediterranean port, France’s second-largest city, was appointed the “cultural capital of Europe,” a rotating European Union honor. City fathers launched beautification projects, created new tourism attractions and invited people from around the world to visit. A splendid stone esplanade was laid around the Old Port, peppered with novel sculpture, and a high-tech historical museum went up next to City Hall.</p></blockquote>
<p>How did that work out?</p>
<blockquote><p>The eruption has refocused attention on Marseille’s long-standing reputation as a European drug-smuggling hub, a place where entire neighborhoods have slipped away from police control and fallen under the command of gangsters who earn millions importing and selling North African hashish and settle turf disputes with AK-47 assault rifles.</p>
<p>“Marseille is sick with its violence,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said.</p>
<p>Vowing to squash the drug trade and end the violence, Valls last week dispatched 250 paramilitary and other national police officers to reinforce the usual deployment of around 3,000. The night after they were deployed, with television cameras in tow, another body was found, burned to a crisp with a bullet in its charred skull, the execution method local traffickers call the “barbecue.” The next day, two Turkish immigrants were shot and wounded, and a pair of youths driving by on a motor scooter opened fire with a pistol on a third man, wounding him in the legs.</p></blockquote>
<p>Marseille doesn&#8217;t have a violence problem. It<a href="http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/marseilles-is-now-30-40-muslim-excessive-violence-riots-and-rapes-are-turning-it-into-the-most-violent-city-in-europe/"> has a Muslim immigrant problem</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In September 2011, at between 4 and 5 am, around 15 people “apparently in a state of drunkenness” broke into the barracks belonging to a military fire service, shouted at the firemen on duty there then began firing shots at them. 7 firemen were wounded, of whom 4 were taken to hospital. The party of “jeunes” had apparently come from a bus chartered by a group of Cape Verdians in Nice to travel to an “Africa night” in Marseilles.</p>
<p>A week later, a bus driver was attacked by passengers when he refused to allow two burka-clad women to travel on his bus. It is illegal in France to wear the burka in public. When one of the women tried to board the bus, displaying a bus pass bearing a photograph, the driver insisted that she unveil so he could verify her identity. She refused to do this and, after some discussion, decided to leave and wait for the next bus.</p>
<p>Angry passengers (“jeunes”) then took the side of the women and beat up the driver, accusing him of being a “racist”. They then invited the burka-wearing woman to re-enter the bus. But when the police arrived, they scattered. Police booked the woman for wearing a burka.</p>
<p>In reacting to the incident, the president of the Marseilles Transport Authority, which operated the bus, appeared to sympathise with the woman rather than, as might have been expected, his own driver. The driver’s reaction was “inappropriate”, he said. The explanation comes with this “president’s” name: Karim Zéribi.</p>
<p>Muslims have now set up unofficial checkpoints in various parts of Marseilles. Anyone entering “their” area has to stop and submit to inspection. Last week, the driver of a van belonging to a food bank, which distributes free food and drink to poor people, was stopped by a group of “jeunes” when trying to enter the Marseilles district of “Air-Bel”. The road had been barred with concrete blocks and bins filled with sand. They searched his vehicle “like policemen applying the law in their territory” in order to “check there weren’t any policemen inside”. When they saw he only had milk, they let him pass through.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is what a real No Go Zone looks like. As I wrote last year, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/inside-france%E2%80%99s-future-muslim-majority-city/">Marseilles is on track to becoming France&#8217;s first </a>majority Muslim city.</p>
<blockquote><p>Muslims had attacked the port city in the 9th century capturing it and enslaving its native inhabitants. That which Muslims once took, their theologians insist is theirs in perpetuity. The Muslim return to Marseille is seen as a reconquista, a return to the land that was once theirs.</p>
<p>Nearly half of all immigrants to France are Muslim. In Marseille 41.8 percent of those under 18 were of foreign descent.</p>
<p>La Marseillaise, France’s National Anthem, got its name when volunteer revolutionaries from Marseille sang the song. Now Marseille is at the center of a new revolution. The Islamic Revolution. Muslim volunteers from France have been identified training with the Taliban and after Mohammed Merah’s massacre at a Jewish school, a group of Jews in Marseille were attacked by Muslim men shouting, “Vive Mohamed Merah, F— the Jews, Palestine will win.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This is what happens when the cultural capital of Europe meets Muslim immigration.</p>
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