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Paris between two fires: Macron chooses who to protect - Jews or Arabs
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Elena Karaeva
In which the writer ignores the beam in the Russian eye to wax indignant about the beam in France’s.
[RIA] A manifestation for which they were noisily preparing, but which turned out to be nothing. The French establishment wanted to demonstrate unity in the fight against anti-Semitism, and, as usual, it all ended in scandal. The current president avoided participating in the demonstration, writing an open letter (no joke) to the nation he administers as a substitute for his presence. After which the politicians, with thinner smoke and a lower chimney, began to perform ritual antics at the kindergarten level, when someone does not want to walk hand in hand with someone else. All this happened before the eyes of those whom, as it was stated, the authorities intended to protect and protect.

And there is something to protect and protect, leaving sarcasm aside. Anti-Semitic protests in France are growing exponentially, and the houses of Parisian, Marseille, Lyon, and Lille Jews are decorated with Stars of David with sad regularity. It has not yet come to the point of pogroms of Jewish small businesses, kosher restaurants, shops and shops, but armed patrols are already on duty around Jewish schools around the clock, and synagogues on the eve of Shabbat have long been under heavy police and gendarmerie protection.

Sunday's demonstration for everything good (in support of the Jewish community of France, which is half a million people) and against everything bad (insults and threats against the French of Jewish origin) took place almost on the day of the 85th anniversary of one of the monstrous events in European history. Kristallnacht, a two-day pogrom in November 1938, when Nazi stormtroopers destroyed and burned hundreds of synagogues, not only in Germany itself , but also in Austria , looted businesses and factories owned by Jews, as well as clinics, shops, killing those who tried to protect their families. Kristallnacht became the signal for the destruction of all European Jewry. We all know how it ended.

It is worth adding here that while in Nazi Germany the “cultured German nation” was robbing and killing fellow citizens, in the Soviet Union a lullaby in Yiddish was flowing from the screens, which was sung to a black baby, and this famous scene was captured in the film “Circus”.
No doubt. But there is also the centuries-long history of Russian Jew-hatred, that manifested as the huge ghetto that was the Pale of Settlement (1791 to 1917), regular pogroms, the publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and so forth that flowered into suspicion of Jews that were bourgeois, educated, or religious. Russia once had the largest Jewish population in the world, but they left.
The self-proclaimed enlightened Europe incited xenophobia and racial hatred with all its might, while the USSR glorified friendship and good-hearted relations between peoples.
Is that what it’s called nowadays?
Two more years later, when France shamefully lays down its arms before Hitler, its government, based in Vichy, will begin to deport Frenchmen of Jewish origin to death camps. The Nazis only gave instructions, but the French gendarmes, police officers, and, of course, active citizens disciplinedly took upon themselves the execution. The concierges, as befits law-abiding citizens, absolutely voluntarily handed over house books to the relevant authorities, in which residents with Jewish surnames were listed; the French Medical Order, which united doctors of all specialties, also reported to the appropriate authorities about Jewish doctors, providing the addresses of their offices and places of residence. The French Society of Railways allocated special trains, which were driven by French drivers, who transported people, their fellow citizens, old people, children and women, doomed to become crematorium smoke, to death camps.

Both the Medical Order (Conseil National d'Ordre des médecins) and the Society of Railways (SNCF) were not dissolved for their actions, they were not subjected to any persecution, even administrative, not to mention denazification. They continue to function to this day, but no one remembers the past.

And if Hitler’s bosses indicated in their directives that Jewish children starting from the age of 12 were subject to deportation, then the French authorities lowered the age, and, according to their orders, both pregnant women and infants of any age were subject to deportation to death camps.

The French denounced their Jewish neighbors, Jewish children, and Jewish orphanages so willingly that the first thing de Gaulle did upon entering Paris in August 1944 was to close the archives with denunciations for a hundred years (that is, until 2044 inclusive), transferring them to the army for storage. In the name, as he himself stated, “preserving national unity.” The decision of the creator of modern France can be understood if you know that the informers lived and continued to live later, after the war, next to either the descendants of those whom they denounced, or the miraculously surviving victims of their denunciations.

Remorse? No, the French don't know.

Moreover, until the end of the twentieth century, until 1995, the participation of French society and the French state in the extermination of tens of thousands of fellow citizens was kept under wraps, they hardly talked about it, and the topic was absolutely taboo in the press. Only President Jacques Chirac , being a noble man who understands that sooner or later hiding this terrible criminal past can lead to terrible consequences, admitted France's responsibility for the murder of 75 thousand deportees (among them 11 thousand children under 12 years old) in death camps.

Then, of course, they created museums and memorials, but it was too late. Reflection, repentance and admission of guilt work when in hot pursuit, and so, more than half a century later, who remembers and knows what?

The demonstration against anti-Semitism, with its pomp and pathos declared by the organizers (these are both chambers of the National Assembly), could not help but fail due to the fact that society first needs to understand what it has done, realize the severity of guilt and responsibility for the past, and only then put forward the right slogans.

Otherwise, the dirt of French history, the shame of the French nation, the guilt of society, no matter how much you sweep it under the rug, it will not disappear anywhere. No matter how many right words are said and no matter how many calls are made, the blood and suffering of those whom the French themselves sent to their deaths will be an eternal stain on the French tricolor. Because history punishes those who are unrepentant and pretend that nothing happened with eternal shame. The demonstration that took place in Paris on Sunday is clear proof of this.


Posted by: badanov 2023-11-14
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