French President Jacques Chirac on Monday condemned a wave of attacks on Jewish synagogues and other sites in France, saying the French were not anti-Semitic. His comments, made during a combined interview with four Jewish stations, were followed just hours later by the discovery of an attempted arson attack on a Jewish student union office at Paris's Jussieu University. Three Molotov cocktails were found near the UEJF office, a university official said, adding there had been no fire. "There are undisputedly anti-Semitic acts that are unacceptable and totally contrary to the principles of our republic, and which, I repeat, must be condemned in the most severe and complete terms," Chirac said. "But that does not mean the French are anti-Semitic."
It's... It's... It's those damned Eskimos. They come sneakin' into La Belle France and just beat all the Jews up and burn down all the synagogues. And Samoans. They do that, too.In Chirac's case, he's actually correct, literally. These Arab immigrants are not French. To an extent not encompassed in US political thought, European nationality is bound up in the concept of citizenship. Your last commentary isn't satiric at all, its true, except for the ethnic groups you cite.
What is the measure of French culpability is how the French gendarmes allow such illegal acts to be perpetrated against the peace and dignity of the French Republic.
Posted by Tom Roberts 4/9/2002 9:07:31 AM |