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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (8120)	5/3/2005 4:15:21 AM
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Re: Jews, Arabs, and French Diplomacy: A Special Report What a screed! My first remark on Pryce-Jones' lenghty review of France's relationship with both Jews and Arabs is that it gives short shrift to the crucial French-Algerian war from 1954 to 1962, and, incidentally, to the history of French occupation of Algeria from 1830.... It's also inaccurate as regards the presidency of Francois Mitterrand from 1981 to 1995... How come such an otherwise astute pundit of French politics as Mr Pryce-Jones pictures F. Mitterrand as unfriendly, if not hostile, to Jews and Israel?! Actually, Mitterrand's two presidencies (he was reelected in 1988) amounted to a Golden Age for the French jewry and Israel --just ask Shimon Peres. Mitterrand's widow, Danielle Mitterrand, is Jewish and was born Danielle Gouze. Her sister, film producer Christine Gouze-Renal, is married to Roger Hanin, a Jewish Pied-Noir --both greatly benefited from Mitterrand's rise to power in 1981.... Pryce-Jones briefly mentions Jacques Attali as a counselor of the late President. Well, Mr J. Attali wasn't just another advisor --he was Mitterrand's eminence grise on a number of issues... and a Jew. As was Laurent Fabius, Mitterrand's second (or third) Prime minister and the youngest French ever appointed to the post (Fabius was 39 when he took over Matignon). Besides, Mitterrand's record on the French-Algerian war testifies that he was no "Arab friend": This was the period of the war in Algeria and Mitterrand took a very hard line in defence of French Algeria. He maintained that the only acceptable form of negotiation with those fighting for independence from France was war. Eventually the intractable nature of the conflict, together with the threat from right wing sections of the army in Algeria to invade France, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic in 1958 and General de Gaulle's assumption of power. Excerpted from: pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (8120)	5/3/2005 4:31:44 AM
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Re: At home, meanwhile, [France] has had to come to terms with a growing Arab underclass, one whose resentments and tendencies to violence have been whipped up in no small part by the inflexible hostility displayed by the French state to Jewish self-determination. A contradiction in terms! How could "resentments" and "tendencies to violence" within the Arab immigrants constituency stem from France's overtly pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian policy? Truth is, just like the US' Sun Belt has a problem with Mexican immigration, France (and most other EU countries as well) has difficulties integrating her non-European minorities. However, it's basically a socio-economic challenge, not --as US and Israeli Judeofascists would love to have it-- a religious/ideological conflict.... Re: The pursuit of une puissance musulmane, fitting Arabs and Jews into a grand design on French terms, has evidently been an intellectual illusion all along, and highly dangerous to the interests of everyone concerned. Wrong again... The "intellectual, highly dangerous illusion" is the one nursed by Judeofascists about France joining them into an all-out crusade against "Arab/Muslim barbarians". It's indeed a fantasy as suicidal for France as a holy crusade against Latino minorities would be for the US --because both entail civil war. That's why French intelligence has shrewdly concocted the AZF terrorist threat: conspicuously a non-Muslim, non-Arab terrorist group that routinely threatens French authorities with bomb plots(). If France were ruled by Judeofascist freaks like the US, she too would have stoked the fires against bugbear Bin Laden, Al-qaeda, Zarqawi and co. Gus () AZF terror group threatens France anew PARIS, March 25 (UPI) -- A shadowy group has sent threatening missives to France's president and interior minister, one containing a detonator. Known as AZF, the little-known organization sent the threats Thursday to French President Jacques Chirac and Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin, French television announced Friday, citing a statement from the Paris prosecutor's office. French officials have so far declined to detail the threats contained in the two missives, other than they sought to extort funds. The public prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the matter. Last year, AZF sent several threatening letters, warning that it would set off explosives on French rail lines if its demands for roughly $6.2 million from the government were not met. Several unexploded bombs were later discovered on the rail lines at different points of time. [...] sciencedaily.com