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International
Synagogue hit again
2002-04-07
  • Gasoline bombs were hurled at police guarding a French synagogue again, part of a wave of anti-Semitic violence in France since fighting worsened in the Middle East. Three thugs assailants hurled Molotov cocktails at three officers guarding the Merlan Synagogue in Marseilles late Saturday. No one was injured and no property was damaged. The assailants got away. Two attackers had hurled gasoline bombs at the same synagogue Tuesday.
    "Alphonse? Do you smell something burning?"
    "Why, yes, Gaston. I believe I do."
    "Have you seen any perpetrators?"
    "Why, yes. I believe that is one over there. Here, you! Halt!"
    "Merde. He did not halt. Ah, well. Have you any decent frommage? This poor stuff I have doesn't smell anything like feet."
    On Friday, prosecutors said three North African bully boys young men of Moroccan origin confessed to throwing Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in the southern city of Montpellier on Thursday. "These three men were coming out of a party and had been drinking quite a lot when they decided to carry out this attack against the synagogue," Montpellier prosecutor Leonard-Bernard de la Gatinais said Friday. "They were acting based upon what they had seen in the news," he said, and called the suspects "unemployed, confused people."
    See? Nothing there. Not a thing to worry about.
    As the famous Cuban philospher R.Ricardo once said, "I dun bliv it." Unemployed, confused people might hold up a liquor store, but they don't firebomb synagogues and churches. Terrorists and psychopaths do that.
    The government stepped up police patrols of Jewish religious sites after another synagogue in Marseille was burned to the ground by arsonists on Wednesday.
    Seems to have been very effectual.
    The little Swabian towns I was garrisoned by in Germany often had nice little parks in them with brass plaques saying:

    "Here was the site of the Synagogue, burned on [day and month] 193x."

    Wonder if the French will use this sort of plaques, and cut the grass and plant flowers as nicely as their German neighbors?
    Posted by Tom Roberts 4/7/2002 6:36:38 PM
    My guess would be that the Frenchies will wind their stylish new turbans a little tighter and build mosques on the sites. If you own a copy of the Song of Roland, don't sell it.
    Posted by Fred 4/8/2002 9:49:55 AM
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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