I don't understand this comment at all. If Europe moved right, it would be more like the US.
Maybe they are associating the far right with anti-semitism, which could be true, but the leftists in Europe are very vocal in their disdain for Israel.
That comment has me baffled as well.
It is the left that has turned on Israel. And anti-Semitism doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it. Something larger, even more pernicious, may be at work here...
The West is turning on Israel because it is losing confidence in itself.
Highly recommended.
I agree with you, Dog. This article is all over the place and makes no sense, just like all the other Le Pen articles written this weekend. But the inconsistancies are truly breathtaking!
Every dawgone one of the articles calls him some variation of an "extreme right winger," yet they also call him a racist (leftist characteristic), anti-Semite (leftist), nationalist (leftist), fascist (leftist), etc.
The Euro-Coms have been slamming "right wingers" in the U.S. for supporting Israel and the Jews, while they openly loathe them in Europe! So which is it? Are right wingers "extreme" because we support the Jews? And if Le Pen is an anti-Semite, how does that connect him with "the right"?
And, furthermore, I've been asking for years now...What is an "extreme right-winger"? What are people aftraid of? -- do these prats who fear the "extreme right-winger" worry that he might legislate them more of their freedoms back? It is shocking that the same "outrage" and "horror" (Neil Kinnock, UK socialist) doesn't get expressed when someone like Jospin gets into their govenment. No -- instead, electing some Eurocrat with designs on usurping more of their liberties, is just fine with them.