Posted on 04/22/2002 7:06:36 AM PDT by truthandlife
Well, they didnt vote for Jospin , did they? And if you think LePen is the "answer", then you don't know much about French "stuff". A Chirac Presidency without a Socialist Prime Minister will do a much better job of protecting the borders and keeping the peace, then that demagogue LePen... But, having said that, he's done a nice job knocking off Jospin, and many of us are thankful to him for that.
The ONLY "minority" in France who should be scared of Le Pen is the Arabs. Jews have nothing to fear, but they love the Marxist climate there. Why would Israelis want such left-wing skunks among them. Wasn't Rabin, Barak, Beilin and Sarid enough?
Could these people get any more sappily melodramatic. Sheesh....get a life! Also, note that she corrected herself with, "..but not only on the left."
Yes. That is what Le Pen should explain, but in a manner that recognizes the Holocaust.
I do think that there is a difference between Genocide and what the communists other thatn Stalin did. (Stalin did commit genocide. Ask the Checens, Kalmyks, Volga Germans, and Crimean Tatars.
I suspect that many are. The fact that a major news service can find four or five people to quote, to prove their particular bias, does not make a convincing point.
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Jews who settled Gaul under Rome formed major communities in two areas the Rhineland and the Mediterranian.
Most Ashkenazi Jews are decended from those Jews who settled in the Rhineland. These communities were dispersed in 1097 when Knights and peasants on the way to free Jerusalem from the Saracens decided to kill all nono-Christians. Most of these Jews fled to Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Some Jews remained in Spain until the reign of Phillip 2.
Starting in the 15th century, some Jews, most of whose ancestors came from the French Rhineland, returned to France. Many more Jews came to france in the 19th century.
The Jews of the Mediterranian coast had a different history. They named the area Sepharad. The times of trouble for them came with the Gothic invasions. After the fall of Rome the Gothic rulers tended to be anti-Israel adn Jews where periodically expeelled or forced to convert. The later Muslim invader, on the other hand, tended to be far more tolerant. After Poitiers, many French Jews ran from the oppression of the Carolinians into Al-Andlus. Many French Jews expelled by Phillip II also settled Spain.
As the Spanish retook Spain, they began to institute anti-Jewish policies, culminating in the expulsion in 1492.
Many Sephardic Jews settled North Africa.
Thus in a strange way, the Algerian Jews who went to France only returned.
This is why I argued that Jews have been part of French history for so long.
The world is getting topsy-turvy. The liberals who used to favor the Jews now favor the Muslims and don't mind if the synagogues are bombed. Until someone might come along and get rid of the Muslims, which should help the Jews, but now the liberals are suddenly very concerned with the fate of the Jews again. It seems it's okay for Muslims to kill Jews but not for non-Muslims to kill them in the minds of liberals. The liberals use "far-right extremist" to describe anyone who isn't a Communist so it's hard to know when they aren't crying wolf with that term.
The case of convoluted victimology, in my opinion. Jews were victims. But muslims were victims, too. Two groups hate each other. Now which side you will take ? Victim hierarchy is not neatly linear.
So, the President can call new elections and fire the PM, but he cant veto laws directly. He can threaten, but they can call his bluff, etc
Thats why Chirac has less power with a split gov't, as does Jospin who is currently PM. Economically, France has done pretty well the last 5 yrs, but crime has skyrocketted, and Jospin's party has no answer for that. The right and right of center are just under half the electorate, but at least half of those (r of c) will go with Chirac . Of the left, only maybe some of the union militant types will go with LePen. Most of the Left will vote and vote against him; theyre hysterical about LePen..My guess is he gets 25, maybe 30 % tops
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