It was Dr. Guillotin (Deputy of Paris) who on October the 10th, 1789 proposed to the French Constituent Assembly that all condemned criminals should be beheaded on the grounds of humanity and egalité (equality).
Posted on 12/31/2006 8:54:15 AM PST by SJackson
Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews
Robert Fulford reviews in the National Post David Pryce-Jones’ new book Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews:
In truth, France supports Israel on all occasions except when Israel needs support. Mainly it pursues what the Economist recently called "decades of pro-Arabism."
The Prime Minister himself (the one who proudly bears the most majestic name in world politics, Dominique Marie Francois Rene Galouzeau de Villepin) makes it plain that help for Israel is conditional. Most recently, it seems to depend on Israel refraining from overflying Lebanon to monitor weapons imported for Hezbollah. The French don’t love Hezbollah but neither do they want them annoyed by Israel.
De Villepin has explained to the Israelis that their future rests on a landfor- peace agreement with the Palestinians. He doesn’t say who besides Israel should sign this agreement. Palestinian politics are in apparently permanent chaos and the most powerful force, Hamas, refuses to recognize Israel’s existence.
During the Lebanon war, de Villepin called Israel’s response "violent and aberrant." Often, he seems to embrace what Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post calls "The view that every problem in the region is somehow or other bound up in Israel’s stubborn refusal to disappear." In 2001, he remarked that Israel was a "parenthesis" in history, not destined to last long.
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Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews, a new release by David Pryce-Jones, indicts French policy since the 19th century. This is a short, sharp book; many who read it will never think of France in the same way again. Who among us, for instance, understands that in 1977 France did all it could to make possible the Islamic Republic of Iran?
The Ayatollah Khomeini was thrown out of Iraq as too troublesome and turned away by Syria and Kuwait. France, however, welcomed him.
He was set up in two suburban houses with six
phone lines and two telexes. The police allowed his bodyguards to carry firearms, including two machine guns. Given every courtesy, he used this help to stir up rebellion in Iran. During four months in France, he gave 132 interviews. When finally the Shah surrendered the throne, Khomeini flew to Tehran in a chartered Air France plane; on landing, an Air France pilot helped him down the steps to the ground.
In return, France was attacked again and again. In 1981, Iranian agents killed the French ambassador to Lebanon. In 1983, suicide bombers killed 58 French peacekeeping soldiers. More recently, thousands of riots, large and small, have made Muslim neighbourhoods into places the police fear to go. In 2005, rioters (identifying themselves by shouting " Allahu akhbar!" or "Allah is great!"), burned 45,000 cars and injured some 3,000 police officers. In 2006, there have been about 100 similar incidents per day. France may be losing the ability to govern itself.
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France's Middle East policy comes home to roost
Robert Fulford, National Post Published: Saturday, December 30, 2006 When the World Jewish Congress met in Paris last month, the French Prime Minister assured the delegates that France "stands resolutely at the side of Israel." That stirring promise, uttered as the dismal year of 2006 was coming to a close, embodied French policy in the Middle East, a combination of barefaced hypocrisy and too-clever-by-half diplomacy.
In truth, France supports Israel on all occasions except when Israel needs support. Mainly it pursues what the Economist recently called "decades of pro-Arabism."
The Prime Minister himself (the one who proudly bears the most majestic name in world politics, Dominique Marie Francois Rene Galouzeau de Villepin) makes it plain that help for Israel is conditional. Most recently, it seems to depend on Israel refraining from overflying Lebanon to monitor weapons imported for Hezbollah. The French don't love Hezbollah but neither do they want them annoyed by Israel.
De Villepin has explained to the Israelis that their future rests on a landfor- peace agreement with the Palestinians. He doesn't say who besides Israel should sign this agreement. Palestinian politics are in apparently permanent chaos and the most powerful force, Hamas, refuses to recognize Israel's existence.
During the Lebanon war, de Villepin called Israel's response "violent and aberrant." Often, he seems to embrace what Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post calls "The view that every problem in the region is somehow or other bound up in Israel's stubborn refusal to disappear." In 2001, he remarked that Israel was a "parenthesis" in history, not destined to last long.
He accurately reflects elite French opinion. Philippe Karsenty, who monitors French journalism for a service called Media-Ratings, claims that French leaders see Israel as a dominant and malign force in the Middle East. French diplomats believe the U.S. made war on Iraq at Israel's insistence. They also appear to consider Iran's (putative) nuclear bomb a problem mainly for Israel, not for the rest of the world. Karsenty argues that Israel-bashing has become France's substitute
for anti-Semitism. As he puts it, "you can't say 'I hate the Jews' but it's very positive for your career, as an intellectual, a journalist or a diplomat, to say that Israel is an evil state and that you want it to disappear."
On questions related to the Jews, official Paris seems tone deaf. Criticizing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Holocaustdenial conference in Iran last month, the French Foreign Minister condemned "revisionist" ideas. That very word clumsily plays into the hands of the deniers. They love it. "Revisionist," a respectable term since the 1860s, used by everybody from Biblical scholars to military historians, gives deniers an unearned air of respectability. The accurate termis "liars."
Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews, a new release by David Pryce-Jones, indicts French policy since the 19th century. This is a short, sharp book; many who read it will never think of France in the same way again. Who among us, for instance, understands that in 1977 France did all it could to make possible the Islamic Republic of Iran?
The Ayatollah Khomeini was thrown out of Iraq as too troublesome and turned away by Syria and Kuwait. France, however, welcomed him.
He was set up in two suburban houses with six
phone lines and two telexes. The police allowed his bodyguards to carry firearms, including two machine guns. Given every courtesy, he used this help to stir up rebellion in Iran. During four months in France, he gave 132 interviews. When finally the Shah surrendered the throne, Khomeini flew to Tehran in a chartered Air France plane; on landing, an Air France pilot helped him down the steps to the ground.
In return, France was attacked again and again. In 1981, Iranian agents killed the French ambassador to Lebanon. In 1983, suicide bombers killed 58 French peacekeeping soldiers. More recently, thousands of riots, large and small, have made Muslim neighbourhoods into places the police fear to go. In 2005, rioters (identifying themselves by shouting " Allahu akhbar!" or "Allah is great!"), burned 45,000 cars and injured some 3,000 police officers. In 2006, there have been about 100 similar incidents per day. France may be losing the ability to govern itself.
Pryce-Jones says that instead of standing with the West, France has betrayed our common culture in the belief that supporting Middle Eastern dictators will re-establish French power in the region and prove that France, more than any other nation in the West, can work with the Muslims. The result has been precisely the reverse. If it were not tragic it could be dismissed as absurdist comedy.
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Israel will have to stand alone. Sadly, there are too many Jews who are mired in self-hatred. They remain clueless about the necessity to stand up, be counted, fight, and defend.
France has dreams of grandeur.
They see tearing down the U.S. as the key to the next French empire. They wish to diminish the U.S. while simultaneously positioning themselves to step into the vacuum our fall would create.
That France cannot possibly fill our shoes does not occur to them. That France will fall right along with us does not occur to them.
France has already passed the point of no return demographically. Without outside help they are, again, doomed.
The only down side to the fall of France is that their nuclear weapons will fall into the hands of Islamofascists. However, the Islamofascists will have nukes in Pakistan and Iran by then, and most likely many other places as well.
So the fall of France will not actually change things much. It might even help, since this enemy will be easier for the myopic among us to see.
Given their actions, I will shed no tears for the end of France.
The French have always believed they have a special relationship with the headrags. They're just now finding out how special.
Well then we Christians have to stand with them, don't we?
It was Dr. Guillotin (Deputy of Paris) who on October the 10th, 1789 proposed to the French Constituent Assembly that all condemned criminals should be beheaded on the grounds of humanity and egalité (equality).
Emphasis on "France running the show". When these French elitists say "Europe" they mean France, because to them Europe is France, France Europe.
Happy New Year. :O)
Israel has always been alone except for God and Him she refuses to rely on.
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