Posted on 03/12/2007 3:31:19 PM PDT by Nachum
Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in France are flocking to southern Florida, according to a local newspaper. Most of the 14,000 who have fled since 2001 have moved to Israel, but the Florida coast is a close second. Jewish organizations estimate that 2,000-4,000 French Jews live in the Miami-Dade County area.
"The general hostility of Muslims in France toward Jews, is...behind my decision to leave,'' Rod Kukurudz, who now lives with his wife and their three daughters in Surfside, Florida, told the Miami Herald. "French Jews see the handwriting on the wall and say, `We're not going to wait until it's too late,' '' said Greater Miami Jewish Federation official Jacob Solomon.
An organization involved in French Jewish immigration estimates that 50,000 more French Jews are planning to move to Israel and another 10,000 to Florida.
I would think it's a small net plus for the GOP, maybe more than small. This is a self-selected group who understand how bad things have gotten, and how much worse they're likely to get. I doubt very much that most will be Democrats. And those who are, will rarely be the sort of Democrats we all detest.
Even if they vote straight ticket democrat, I would welcome them to this country.
Better off in a land where they can live safe and buy a gun if they need it.
France if self destructing. God bless all those who can see the writing on the wall.
I think most of these people will see through the political idiocy and political correctness of most of their Jewish-American cousins. Now and then, they might even educate a few.
I'm glad they got out of France too. You know the old saying, Jewish people are the canary in the coal mine. When things start going south societally speaking, the situation might begin with the Jews and anti-Semitism, but it doesn't end with them. France had better wake up.
Drink to death...:-)
You and I both know how they will vote when they get the chance. Democrap.
The part I liked was where it said the French were not an anti-semitic people. LOL, Now thats funny.
We all know how hard the French fought Hitler to stop the trains that were transporting the jews to the death camps.
I watched a movie once called "The Train" starring Burt lancaster. In it Burt and all of the French people were trying to stop the Germans from stealing art treasures.
It seems the art treasures meant a lot more to the French than the whole community of Jews they sent off to die.
No, these are observant Jews. They vote like Baptists.
France committed suicide 90 years ago. April 16 is the 90 year anniversary of their worst defeat in WWI (2nd battle of the Aisne), which followed on the heals of Verdun where they lost 550,000 alone in 1916.
The people occupying France today are French in name only (FINO?). The warriors who followed French military doctrine of constant offense never had a chance to reproduce - their bones are piled high in ossuaries.
The French today are the offspring of weaklings & cowards.
It is bad-- for Europe-- but I don't think it is up to a few thousand Jews to save Europe's sorry butt. I doubt the French government, or the EU, is doing much to protect them, when the chips are down.
"They vote like Baptists."
fundamentalist Baptists. Many Baptists are liberal..
La Nouvelle Boca Raton Phase III Copropriete. Bonjours.
Not a chance. 88% of US Jews vote Democrat and anti-Israel. Keep in mind, they're French.
I think they are the smart ones. I just wonder about the intelligence of whites who stay in Africa.
If I were a Jew in Europe I would be bailing out too.
They're smart enough to get out of France, let's hope they're smart enough to vote Republican as soon as they can.
What kind of visas do they get to allow residency here, refugee ?
France if self destructing. God bless all those who can see the writing on the wall.
I welcome them too. Immigrants tend to be the best and brightest.
The cowards never started. And the weak died along the way.Viking Saying
At least they are not fleding NY State taxes....
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