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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (23330)4/3/2002 10:05:48 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
[The French] like I, probably don't think that Israel can survive, and that therefore plans have to be made for an eventual Palestinian victory.

Extremely unlikely. This "eventual victory" is far enough off to be an abstraction. The French have a love affair with communism and the underdog. I can tell you having lived there how l'hégémonie des États Unis (and Israel's successful capitalist economy by association) sticks in their craw. They're just self-righteously dying for Israel to get it in the neck.

The Palestinian territories in Israel are like one gargantuan crime riddled housing project, the likes of which you find in many areas of France, but many orders of magnitude worse (and to make things really the worst, the Palestinians are being exploited for political ends by other Arab nations.) France hasn't been willing to deal correctly with that problem right at home, so I can't see them doing any forward thinking concerning the Mideast conflict.

The comparison with Algeria isn't pertinent because la France métropolitaine wasn't directly threatened by the war, and it was too easy to write off les pieds noirs; who by the way were hardly welcomed back when they had to flee the country once France capitulated. (1.2 million of them, including such well known names as Albert Camus...)

All you have to do is look at Algeria today, 40 years after the departure of France, to see what a cesspool what is now Israel will become if and when the Jews are forced out.
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