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Le Pen will fight anti-Semitism, says his Jewish running mate
Interesting development that will help undermine the Media lie that the right is the primary source of anti-semitism.
"Our region needs something better. Our religion does too!" reads the opening line of a letter distributed in recent weeks among the Jewish community in Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, one of the largest and most important regions in France. Behind the letter is Sonia Arrouas, a 42-year-old Jewish woman, and No. 4 on the regional list of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front party. On Sunday, French citizens go to the polls in regional elections that are viewed as a significant test of the balance of power and the National Front’s position in the country. Arrouas has been working full tilt for her candidate, Le Pen - the only person, in her opinion, who can solve France’s problems, the only one who "can put an end to the authorities’ incompetence in the face of anti-Semitic aggression." Arrouas’s letter continues: "Has France become an anti-Semitic state? No, but anti-Semitism is dangerously on the rise in a number of regions, including our region. We must not err in identifying the source of the evil: Those responsible for the anti-Semitic incidents, for the most part, come from the Maghreb countries. These worrisome people must not be allowed to harm our community. The Jews’ faith [in the authorities] has cracked. Therefore, I decided to fight with you for our region, for our security and for our religion. Therefore, I decided to stand as a candidate in the elections alongside Jean-Marie Le Pen. Let’s stop the disinformation!!! Come and sign up."

Arrouas, a jurist, businesswoman and a mother of three, was born in Paris to a traditional Jewish family from Tunisia and Algeria. She tries to come to Israel often to visit her relatives. She says she supports Le Pen because she grew up "in a patriotic family for which law and order was our daily lot;" because for her, September 11 was "very traumatic;" because the Muslim girls’ headscarves affair "intensified my fears;" and because she has no intention "of being left at the mercy of the radical Muslims." Arrouas says she became "an anti-fundamentalist and was naturally drawn to the figure who refuses to allow the radical Muslims in France to get stronger. Had they listened to Le Pen, there wouldn’t be so many extremists like these in France. One must not show tolerance for those who have no tolerance."
Well said my friend! The rest snipped. Mostly leftist twaddle saying ’but you can’t do this!’
Posted by: phil_b 2004-03-19
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