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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?

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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (1439)	1/12/2002 12:54:04 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) of 32591

Re: European media... I saw a perfect example of what is considered important last week. Recall how the French ambassador supposedly held some racist remarks among British company. This was reported in the French news in a kind of light hearted tone, as if "Oh those British just love to put people on the spot". And that's about all I heard of the affair. On the other hand the CEO of Vivendi Universal, Jean-Marie Messier made some comments about cultural diversity at a business meeting in New York, and it was as if this was some kind of scandal to attack French culture... to the point where he actually wrote a fairly long article explaining himself! I would have vastly more respect if it was the diplomat who had done this, but from what I can tell he didn't even think it was worth a retraction. And he should have been called on the carpet by Chirac the moment the news came out. There are definitely more reports than I've been used to about vandalism of synagogues and schools in France, it's not my imagination. I'm unsure if it's just the Jews, the French seem to blame everyone but themselves for their economic ills. That anti-mondialisation clown José Bové is some kind of folk hero... go figure. He and his acolytes completely destroy a local MacDonald's to protest against evil american corporations. What was scarcely reported is that a MacDo in France doesn't sell a single food item that isn't produced in Europe with european products (except for, I think, sesame seeds for the buns.) Antisemitism is alive and well over there, as is the Luddite movement.

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