Posted on 08/04/2008 12:52:51 PM PDT by Cincinna
PARIS
It’s not quite the Dreyfus Affair, at least not yet. But France is divided again over power and the Jews.
While the United States has been debating The New Yorker’s caricature of Barack Obama as a Muslim, France has gone off the deep end over a brief item in the country’s leading satirical magazine portraying the relationship between President Nicolas Sarkozy’s fast-rising son, Jean, and his Jewish fiancée.
The offending piece in Charlie Hebdo, a pillar of the left-libertarian media establishment, was penned last month by a 79-year-old columnist-cartoonist who goes by the name of Bob Siné. He described the plans — since denied — of Jean Sarkozy, 21, to convert to Judaism before marrying Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, an heiress to the fortune of the Darty electrical goods retailing chain.
“He’ll go far in life, this little fellow!” Siné wrote of Sarkozy Jr.
He added, in a separate item on whether Muslims should abandon their traditions, that: “Honestly, between a Muslim in a chador and a shaved Jewess, my choice is made!”
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Left-libertarian media establishment? I regularly read the French press, in French, and no English speaking person would describe it by mixing “left” and “libertarian.” What it is, is Stalinist.
“He’ll go far in life, this little fellow!” Siné wrote of Sarkozy Jr.
He added, in a separate item on whether Muslims should abandon their traditions, that: “Honestly, between a Muslim in a chador and a shaved Jewess, my choice is made!”
Disgraceful and disgusting. Left wing newspaper Charlie Hebdo has gone over the line of decency.
The Sun? Hot?
Water? Wet?
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And to use a Jewish background as some sort of detriment is simply low brow.
Another reason to ignore the Europeans....
You’re right about this. The French have always been in the forefront of virulent anti-Semitism. In fact, it was a French aristocrat, Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (1816-1882), who developed the racialist theory of the Aryan master race. Hitler and Nazism relied heavily on his theories.
Sarkozy’s family background is Hungarian Jewish.
His son’s conversion to Judaism is just coming home.
Did Sark-man give his ex a “get”? (was she Jewish?)
Dreyfuss was good as an uptight psychiatrist in “What About Bob.”
Whoa, that’s one good looking kid. If he goes into politics, he’ll get a long way just on his looks. Kind of like John F. Kennedy, Jr., until he crashed his plane which obviously precluded a career in politics, a direction I believe he was heading in.
In France, 'libertarian' likely means anarchist. Probably, socialist-anarchist.
“There is an ugly current of anti-semitism that runs under the radar in French society.”
Actually, there is an ugly current of anti-semitism pretty much everywhere.
No, in France, liberal, or libertarian means conservative. Again, I speak French.
Okay. I was going by historical meanings but times change.
Sarkozy is only 1/4 Jewish
How tall is she? She looks about my height (4'11")
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Something to ponder:
The last defenders of the Führerbunker were the French SS volunteers of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) who remained at the bunker until the early morning of May 2 to prevent the Russians from capturing the bunker on May Day. (ref: Jean Mabire Mourir à Berlin Fayard, 1975).
“She looks about my height (4’11”)”
Wow, you’d come almost to my shoulders. (Almost 7 ft.)
Man he is hottie
I confirm. This guy Siné and this rag are deeply Marxist. They are also very successful and the staff is paid handsomely compared to your average journalist. So it's an incarnation of the caviar Left, with a hint of anarchistic tendancies to conceal their profound hypocrisy.
They are definitely not among the French supporters of Libertarianism in the US sense. They either ignore or hate Rand, von Mises, Hayek.
She’s my type: short, dark, and sexy.
Political labels barely make any sense. They vary by time and place. I'd like to see a reinvention of the US libertarian movement under some unique label indicating nothing but a moving towards increased freedom.
WOW Alouette my mom is your height LOL!
I am 5’8
Comparison of the Danish cartoons to this is specious. The Danish cartoons were solicited by the magazine which published them. Threats of violence, boycotts and demands for repression ensued from the OUTSIDE.
Here the Editor is entitled to decide that this Sine person should not represent the paper. It is an employment decision, not a free speech issue.
Is that even possible? I would have thought that the French were too busy folding to the Islamo-thugs to get worked up over anything as pedestrian and endemic as Jew hatred. The only thing that the average Frenchy is more fond of than thumping the JOOOOOZZZ is their national past time of verbally kicking around those stupid Americans.
I think he just told her “git!”
Honestly, between a Muslim in a chador and a shaved Jewess, my choice is made!What a sick writer. Not much has changed since Herzog heard the horrifying shout of "death to the Jews" as Dreyfuss was led along.
Had this little morsel of excrement written with a similar anti-Muslim bias, he’ lost his head. The Jews will do nothing.
What a cutie! Jessica, if ever you decide to break up with Jean, I’m single.... Petite beautiful Jewish girls are the best in the world!
Just a small correction:
Sarko’s paternal grandparents were Hungarian Roman Catholics. His maternal grandfather was Jewish. The grandfather converted to RC when he married the grandmother, who was French, a RC. and a Bouvier. Don’t know if there is any connection to Jackie O.
Siné was fired from Charlie Hebdo over this.
If an American politician or pundit ever used the word 'Jewess', they would be gone instantly, as they should be. Is the French equivalent more widely used, or restricted, pretty much, to anti-Semites, as in today's English.
"Jewess" was commonly used to denote a female Jewish person throughout the 19 and early part of the 20th century, although it is now archaic. I do not consider use of this word sinister, just quaint.
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