Attacks on Jews leave Marseille wondering about a rupture

International Herald Tribune/The New York Times ^ | April 9 2002 | Marlise Simons, The New York Times

[Sabramerican]

How many people reading this take a lesson from the obvious?

Arabs and Jews living in France. There is "coexistence". Then there is violence. Did the French Jews do anything to deserve being attacked? Is it a cycle a violence? Are both sides at fault? Who attacked who? Who, to this point, has taken the pain without retaliation? If the Jews do finally retaliate, would that make them equally guilty? A cycle?

When you ask yourself who is at fault in the Middle East, ask which people resort to violence first, last and always. For any or no cause. Motivated by hate.

[Lent]

"This is not anti-Semitic violence, it's the Middle East conflict that's playing out here," said Charles Haddad, a Marseille lawyer and longtime president of the region's Jewish Council

Can he spell "denial"?

[MissAmericanPie]

I hear that!

[steamroller]

A country that consists of a floodplain has more serious things to worryabout than Middle east politics.

[Torie]

Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Bahrain, Malyasia, Oman, and Bangledesh are candidates. Others are Islamic minorities that are not in danger of "exploding."

[Michael2001]

Where were you on 9/11?