This is challenging the affected superiority of the French. How does one put it - the dismissive attitude that the Americans are overreacting or are unsophisticated? I think you know what I mean - the French elite groupthink which I see as a form of mass denial. Contructed on the creeping fear of Civil War with the domestic Islamists. I do sense they have this fear and in the great French tradition of doing business as usual, are denying it.
A chink in the armor of this mentalite' is the local jews as targets for the Islamists. What to do, what to do. Blame Israel?