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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (27108)	4/26/2002 4:33:49 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, Krauthammer's article stinks. The expressions of antisemitism in France and elsewhere in Europe which aren't actually things done by muslim sympathizers of palestinians and/or islamism are mostly an expression of denial. They don't want to look at the islamist threat head on. It's far too reminiscent of the Nazis who are supposed to be dead and gone but when the Israelis confront Arafat and his rhetoric there is a direct association made for the Europeans, particularly the French who have never really faced up to all their behaviour during WW2 and before - Dreyfus affair can still bring up amazing rhetoric. And they definitely resent being reminded of the worst parts of their countries' behaviour durinng WW2. Any questionable act by Israel is an opportunity to express the resentment and denial. Thus possibly the comment by the French ambassador in London. Of course, he might belong to this category: There is a small, but in some cases, very well placed, strain in French society occupying about the same part of the political spectrum as North America's keep North America white movement and they will seize on anything which Israel does as "proof" of their beliefs. These people are equally vile in their treatment of North Africans and their descendants living in France. The other component of the anti Israel stuff coming out of France and the remainder of Europe, is the tired anti colonial and "revolutionary" socialist stuff of the 1960's which a lot of mentally lazy folk have never re-examined. They deny that any victim they support may well behave very badly. It's the European version of PC. The LePen vote is not a vote for him but is a shout against the French establishment which has turned a blind eye to the failure, very evident even 25 tears ago, of assimilation of the North African minority. Krauthammer has done himself a dis-service. There are 300 million folk in Europe and it doesn't take a very large percentage of those to create an awful lot of trouble. To write this, given his background is inexcusable: The European "street" has lately been expressing itself on the subject of Jews as well. In France, synagogues have been burned to the ground and Jewish youths savagely attacked. In Belgium, two synagogues were firebombed, a third sprayed with bullets. A Berlin police official advised Jews, for reasons of safety, not to wear outward symbols of their religion. The remainder of the article is equally rubbish.