Le Pen triumph spreads fear among France's Jews

Reuters ^ | 4/22/02 | Emelia Sithole and Glaieul Mamaghani

[KantianBurke]

Guess the Jews prefer voting for a man who turns a blind eye to muslim attacks on them rater than vote for a politician who would eliminate the violence. Just goes to show that Jews prefer socialism to their safety. Hmm...maybe things haven't changed in these past 50 yrs..

[LarryLied]

Don't recall French Jews being concerned when Troskyites got in power in France or when communist KGB informers were discovered in the highest reaches of the government.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

Those who attacked synagogues and cemetries are the ones who hate Le Pen or support Le Pen ?

[Catspaw]

"I don't like Le Pen at all because he is anti-Semitic," Bivita said. "He doesn't like Jews. He doesn't like Arabs. He doesn't like anybody else except the French. This shows that the French are two-faced. They say one thing and they go and vote for somebody like Le Pen."

(Discreet cough)...aren't the Jews who were born and live in France French? Aren't the Arabs who were born and live in France French? Who exactly IS French?

[Callahan]

Lucky for the Le Pen dislikes Muslims even more than Jews.

[jonatron]

Ooh suddenly Reuters is so concerned about the jews of France!?!

I would bet this is merely a smear tactic against JM LePen.

The current french president has done very little to prevent anti-semitic violence lately, and the current administration is always sucking up to Iraq, Iran and working against Israel.

JM LePen is called an anti-semite the way Buchanan - in a smear campaign to try to convince the naive liberals of the world that it would be "unenlightened" to even consider voting for such a man.

Remember, this is from Reuters - the same people who refuse to call Al-Quaida and Hamas and Hizballah terrorists and who hate Israel.

[jonatron]

Those who attacked synagogues and cemetries are the ones who hate Le Pen or support Le Pen ?

They - the Islamic mobs are the ones LePen wants to kick out of France.

[Tacis]

My view is that LePen's victory ISN'T a thunderclap of endorsement of the policies and theories that he espouses. Rather, it is a rejection of the filth, corruption and dishonesty of the ultra left. The way the French system works, voters knew that the first estage was perfect for a gesture.

In the long run, Chirac, the incumbent, also not the cleanest politician around (but, this is Europe), was going to win. French voters can send a message in each estage. So, instead of having the tired leftest prance about in the finals, the voters rejected him AND ALL HE STANDS FOR, and paired LePen in the finals. LePen will lose badly and Chirac will win in a landslide, riding France of Jospin and the leftists, who have "co-governed" for 5 years. Without the extreme leftists (who, in France, are called Dakotans d' Sur), maybe Chirac can control immigration and reduce crime. I'm hoping that the whole thing gives a chill to our communist lunatic party, especially, in the Senate as the cleansing elections approach.

[bribriagain]

Careful, you'll get veronica's panties/boxers in a bunch.

[al-andalus]

Le Pen refers to the Holocaust as a mere 'detail' of history. You should read his writings. I'm not sure whom he hates more, Jews or Arabs, but at the moment it is the anti-immigrant votes he's after, so he's focusing on the Arabs.

I think he's an equal-opportunity hater of all who are not French Gentiles.

[dogbyte12]

27.6% voted none of the above in this election,... 19.7% for Chirac, and 17.06% for Le Pen, and either Le Pen or Chirac will become the country's leader. As screwy as our system is, their's stinks.

The object in France is to be far away from everybody else politically, I suppose. If 70% of voters in France were Conservative, and 30% liberal. But there were a bunch of conservative parties, and only 2 socialist/liberal parties, the runoff could easily be between the 2 liberal sides, who capture combined less than 30% of the vote.

[al-andalus]

Make that French Christians.

[veronica]

Now now brib get your mind out of the gutter. And I have read that little rant by Mr. Lied, or one nearly identical to it, so many times, I could have written it for him. He's a one-trick pony.

[LarryLied]

Amazing isn't it? Trotsky butchered Christians and was on a Jihad to stamp out the Christian faith But many in France cried last night when a Trotskyite was defeated and are warning the world about Le Pen and his antisemitism.

[veronica]

That would be the one nearly identical to it, Mr. Lied. ;-o

[Snuffington]

How strange. Le Pen got enough votes to force Chirac into a runoff, but Reuters couldn't seem to find a single person who voted for him to interview for their article. They seemed to have no trouble finding plenty of people who oppose him however.

It's shoddy, biased journalism like that which drives people toward candidates like Le Pen. They get sick of being manipulated.

From the news reports I've read, I honestly can't tell if Le Pen is truly a nutcase, or just someone who resists the socialist/internationalist new order and is being subsequently demonized. I've seen the press cry wolf too many times to take their warnings seriously.

[Gorest Gump]

JM LePen is called an anti-semite the way Buchanan - in a smear campaign to try to convince the naive liberals of the world that it would be "unenlightened" to even consider voting for such a man.

Comparing LePen to Buchanan? Now that's a smear!

[Paradox]

Who exactly IS French?

You asked?