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To: chalu2 who wrote (11988)	2/27/2002 3:33:04 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Again, it concurs with all that I said on the subject so far... I guess the following excerpt sums it up: In a lengthy article on the subject in Le Monde, many young Arabs in the Paris suburbs dismissed notions that they would attack local Jewish institutions because of their feelings about the Middle East. But several of the youths quoted did complain about what they saw as preferential treatment of Jews in French society. One youth said synagogues were visible, stand-alone buildings, while the mosques were typically hidden away in basement suites. "The Jews," said another, "are always the victims, and it is always the Arabs who are always getting pushed around, over there and here." So far there have not been any deaths in anti-Semitic attacks in France. The French government has acknowledged a sharp increase in anti- Semitic incidents since September 2000, when fighting between Israelis and Palestinians intensified. One government report says acts of violence against Jews have increased from one in 1998 to nine in 1999 to 116 in 2000, the most recent figure available. Other anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from threats to arson, went from 74 in 1998 and 60 in 1999 to 603 in 2000. But some Jewish groups say that even those numbers fall far short of the actual situation, with many Jews afraid to report incidents and some officials quick to classify attacks as ordinary misbehavior by young toughs. What seems indisputable is that news that a synagogue has been firebombed or that stones have been thrown at Jewish schools has become commonplace. [...] Some researchers say Jews are largely suffering from an increase in the general level of violence in low-income neighborhoods. Khadija Mohsen-Finan, a political scientist at a Paris-based research institute who recently completed a study of Muslim youth for France's Interior Ministry, said young Muslims were passionate on the subject of Palestine, but not particularly anti-Semitic. "There was no rejection of the Jew," Ms. Mohsen-Finan said, referring to interviews with nearly 500 young Muslims. "So far the number of incidents has been small." She said she believed that Jewish anxieties were overblown. "Are there verbal attacks?" she said. "Sure. But that goes both ways." _________________________ The Jews are playing a silly yet dangerous game... Stirring up xenophobic Europeans to vent their hatred on their North African immigrants. But Judeofascism, like its Nazi prequel, will lead Europe nowhere. Gus