Right-wing tide surges straight to the heart of Europe

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 22, 2002 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

[LarryLied]

More good news:

Germany's political establishment is in uproar at the prospect of Italy's Silvio Berlusconi taking a significant stake in the German media as he and other tycoons, including Rupert Murdoch, circle the floundering Kirch newspaper and television empire. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/657041/posts

[LarryLied]

I wonder if the sudden re-emergeance of anti-semitism throughout Europe isn't related to the recent swing to the right politically.

Sounds more like sour grapes than anything else. Jews are mostly on the left or far left. When countries move right and they don't, you hear this whining about antisemitism when all that occurs is more and more people don't agree with their political philosophy. Now the Muslims...that is a different matter.

[cicero's_son]

Oh, that's too good! Berlusconi owning German media...what a thought.

Now, if he could just manage to get a stake in Vivendi...

[LarryLied]

Germans have despised and feared Murdoch for years. Now they are looking to Murdoch to save them from Silvio Berlusconi...lol!

[xvb]

There is no whining about anti-Semitism. There is justified concern. The truth is that the Muslim influx into Europe is the reason behind the anti-Semitism in Europe now.

[Optimist]

whining about antisemitism when all that occurs is more and more people don't agree with their political philosophy

Whereas I personally do not understand the socialist facination of many Jewish people both in Europe and the US ...
(unless it is their tradition of being personally responsible for each other, and extrapolating it to the government-as evidenced in Israel with the strain this philosophy of socialism has put upon its economy-but I digress)
...what I was referring to as anti-semitism was ACTIONS against Jews (including synagogues) not their differing political philosophy!

But, I guess to you whether Jews and their property should be attacked IS just a difference in philosophy.

[xvb]

I guess some people don't care if temples are burned, and Jews are attacked. Now if it were churches the same folks would be howling. They are howling about the Church of the Nativity. Natch.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

AND believed in supreme power of the central state, offering rights to certain "protected" classes while demonizing it's oppostion.

I read this as a comment on the Demoncrats here in the US of A!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The general population is getting nervous in Europe over the Islamic violence!

[SAJ]

Uh, the Israelis and most of the inhabitants of their neighboring 'Arab' states are ALL Semites. Check any non-PC dictionary, or any commentary written before 1948 (after which, of course, the definition became ridiculously and very unprofitably politicized). I prefer Webster's 2nd International, what we used to call the 'unabridged' when I was a boy.

Not that I particularly care, but the term 'anti-Semitic' (with or w/o caps) means, these days, 'anti-Jew'. Would I prefer that Israel survive? Yes, I would, for it is a productive nation, as opposed to many of its neigbbors. Would I complain if Israel did NOT survive? Not much, IF the assorted a$$holes in the region would then do the SF-squared (that's sit-the-f***-down-and-shut-the-f***-up, for the uninformed).

But, they won't. They'll have to be exterminated at some point...either economically (as in the case of the late, unlamented Soviet Union), or absolutely (as in the case of the Carthaginians after the Punic Wars).

Has it dawned on anyone that BOTH sides are extortionists here? Just asking. 'Support us, or we'll cause you a lot of trouble' -- that's the message, my friend, on both sides.

[HockeyPop]

These types love "equality" so much that when they perceive one group having disproportionate power, wealth and influence its time to start bestowing second class citizenship on them. First look to their words, how they begin to frame debate and public discourse and then observe the chilling effects of free speech. These are not conservatives nor are they real Americans. This election in France has them champing at the bit.

[SkyPilot]

I don't think Le Pen is Hitleresque.

I predict you will see an assault on conservatives everywhere now that left (or center leftists) have lost in France. And they will (erroneously--but what else is new) try to paint anyone who is not a leftist as a "Nazi."

[FITZ]

I agree about the population problem the Europeans have --and immigration isn't always bad if you allow in people who will adopt your basic culture ----who cares if people become browner as long as they believe in freedom? Maybe immigration from India isn't as bad as immigration from Islamic countries. Where I am, there are quite a few Indians but they all speak English and seem to be assimilating. Indians don't seem to be attempting to convert the entire world into a Hindu state.

[PJ-Comix]

The prophet Daniel said it all. In Dan.2, he said of the EU, Can Iron be mixed with Miry Clay?

Ah yes. The EU is specifically mentioned in the Bible. Strange that few have heeded the specific biblical warning about the EU.

[steve-b]

Good point -- the cases of violence I've heard about in India from the Hindu look like isolated incidents of frightened/pissed-off people lashing out (that could happen in any society, really), not the result of the sort of systematic hate-mongering characteristic of the jihadist culture.

[Blake#1]

According to you all right-wingers are anti-semetic. This is a Democrat Party lie. It is put forth to separate voters so that Dems can benefit. Most right-wingers are White Europeans and in my case tired of being described by a socialist/communist.

[Kermit]

"The NSDAP was the German acronym for "National Socialist Democratic Workers Party.""

Try National Socialist German (Deutsche) Workers Party. The NSDAP was explicitly anti-Democratic and promoted the so-called "leadership principle". The Bolsheviks (majority) were a small faction of the Russian Socialist Workers Party. The similarities are obvious.

[Travis McGee]

Big Time.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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