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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SARMAN who wrote (14954)	4/26/2007 2:56:15 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Sarman > If Sarkozy gets in, what would think will happen? My opinion, for what it's worth: Firstly, it would be a triumph for the Zionists and a disaster for the Muslims in France. Muslims have lived in France for hundreds of years and now they would be regarded as undesirable, even terrorists. This would clearly split the population and lead to social unrest. Secondly, as you say, the countervailing presence of France to the US in the UN, the European government and NATO would be lost. So we could expect to see much stronger anti-Russian and anti-Muslim positions being taken by those organizations. Sarkozy and Angela Merkel would form an ideal pro-Israel / anti-Palestinian partnership. > Would we be heading WWIII? Unless something crazy is attempted against Iran or Russia, I don't see that just yet. But international tensions will have to increase as many nations attempt to resist the pressure of US hegemony. Israel, of course, will be even freer to do as it wishes in both the occupied territories and neighboring countries eg Lebanon, Syria, so wars there are much more likely.

To: SARMAN who wrote (14954)	4/26/2007 4:18:09 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Almost buried in the Iraq war news and debate Ethiopia continues to slaughter people in Somalia. Ethiopia's aggression against Somalia is as blatant as anything Israel has done, but the so-called "international community" remains silent since this aggression is supported by the US and international Zionism. As for the UN it has degenerated into nothing more than a tool of the big powers (primarily the US) used to build public support for outrageous acts of aggression. The faster this "august body" fades into the dustbin of history the better of the world will be.

To: SARMAN who wrote (14954)	4/27/2007 5:36:24 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Bis repetita placent... or how Betar/LDJ() provocateurs flinch at nothing to stir up islamophobia and tip the electoral balance in Sarkozy's favor: Apr. 26, 2007 22:14 \| Updated Apr. 27, 2007* Jewish woman attacked in France By JPOST.COM STAFF A 22-year-old Jewish woman suffered a vicious anti-Semitic attack by two men of Middle Eastern appearance in a train station in Marseille, France on Thursday night. The attackers tore the Star of David chain from around the young woman's neck, lifted up her shirt, painted a swastika on her stomach and then fled the scene. Local police opened an investigation into the attack but had not yet found the assailants. Head of the Jewish Agency delegation in France, David Roche, said the incident was the most severe anti-Semitic attack in France since the murder of the young Jewish male Ilan Halimi by a gang of Muslim youths in February 2006. In response to the attack, Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski released a statement saying that specifically during the course of the largest display of democracy France has known in many years "this barbaric act" is carried out. "We are doing our utmost so that the issue of the fight against anti-Semitism will top the agenda of the candidates for the presidency and of the candidate who is elected," continued the statement. jpost.com () fr.wikipedia.org Remember the prequel: Woman’s Swastika Ordeal Exposed as Fantasy Charles Bremner - The Times* July 14, 2004 A tale of anti-Semitic violence that horrified France unravelled yesterday when a 23-year-old woman who had claimed that a band of youths assaulted her on a train and scrawled swastikas on her body confessed that she had lied. The woman, identified only as Marie-Leonie, had been suspected of inventing her supposed ordeal at the hands of six youths, of Arab and African origin, on the outskirts of northern Paris. She confessed after being taken into custody for questioning last night. The collapse of the “affair of the RER railway” embarrassed President Chirac as he prepared to give his annual Bastille Day pep talk to the nation today, with racism and hate crimes among the top subjects. M Chirac will give his hour-long television interview from the Elysée Palace after reviewing a military parade led this year by guest contingents from Britain, the Grenadier Guards and the Household Cavalry. The President no doubt regrets the way in which he seized on the reported attack last weekend as ministers and the media poured out a torrent of condemnation of mindless, anti-Semitic violence on suburban housing estates. M Chirac voiced horror at the reported actions of the youths who were said to have attacked the woman and her 13-month-old child as they travelled on the RER Express Métro in the Sarcelles area. They were said to have cut off hair and sliced the clothes of the woman and daubed swastikas on her stomach with markers. The woman had told police that they had attacked her after wrongly identifying her as Jewish. They were also said to have thrown her child to the ground. Depite an investigation involving more than 100 officers, police had said earlier yesterday that they had been unable to confirm any details of the woman’s account. “We have found elements in the case which cast a very strong shadow over her statements,” Jean-Paul Proust, chief of the Paris police, had said. She and the baby had suffered light injuries, but there was a mystery over their origin, police said. Train personnel had also denied her claims that she had reported the incident to them and her mobile phone records also contradicted her story. One account suggested that she had boarded the train with her clothes already cut. Newspapers had also reported that Marie-Leonie, the daughter of a Paris school janitor, had a record of making complaints to the police over the past five years about attacks that were never confirmed. Her friends and family said that she was known as a fantasist and had been under psychiatric care. Jean-François Coppé, junior Interior Minister and government [Jewish] spokesman, said that the train affair, true or not, made no difference to France’s need to fight growing intolerance toward minorities. According to official figures last week, hate crimes doubled in the first half of the year, with 510 anti-Jewish acts or threats reported to police. M Chirac warned France last week to stop turning a blind eye to rising anti-Semitism and racial intolerance. timesonline.co.uk In French: sangonet.com