Straight from the horse's mouth --Jews are paranoid:
The Jewish paradox
If a French Jew is asked how things are, he will immediately complain that the past few years have been the most difficult for Jews since the end of World War II. There are some 600,000 Jews living in France today, the majority in Paris. They constitute barely 1 percent of the population, but wield power that is totally disproportionate to their numbers. And this is the great paradox of the life of the Jews in France: fear alongside power. A diminished sense of personal security alongside a collective status that makes them one of the strongest communities in France. On the one hand, the Jews are in a depressed frame of mind, yet on the other they chalk up achievements in everything they do. Otherwise, how is it possible to explain the fact that four of the five potential candidates for president in the next elections are Jews?
France had two preeminent Jewish prime ministers in the 20th century: Leon Blum in the 1930s and Pierre Mendes-France in the 1950s. At the same time, in the history of the French Republic, no Jew has ever entered the race for the Elysee Palace. That has always been considered beyond the pale. No longer, though. On the left, the talk is of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was finance minister in the government of Lionel Jospin; or Laurent Fabius, who served as prime minister during the presidency of Francois Mitterrand; or Jack Lang, a minister of culture and of education in socialist governments. On the right the leading candidate is the finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, son of Jewish immigrants from Hungary. At this stage, there is no one in the party who is daring to take him on in the struggle to succeed President Jacques Chirac.
"This is a success story," a French researcher summed up. "What it means is that despite all the troubles, the Jews in France feel perfectly at home."
haaretz.com
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