Sunday Lunch with… 'Nazi Hunters' (Euro crapweasels – crappier than crap, weaslier than weasels)

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 9, 2004 | Debra Pickett

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It's an honor," people keep telling the Klarsfelds.

An honor to meet them, an honor to host them, an honor to sit down for lunch with them.

In town to speak at a lecture sponsored by the Congregation Kol Ami synagogue, the Klarsfelds — Beate, who's 65, and Serge, 68 — are frequently described as "Nazi hunters." But, for the people reverently shaking their hands and thanking them for being here, they are far more. They are truth-tellers, the embodiment of conscience.

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"Many young Frenchmen," he says, choosing his words carefully though his English is flawless, "of North African origin are very against Jews, whom they believe all support Israel [against the Palestinians] and are bad people."

Beyond the ethnic violence in France — which has its tangled roots in the French colonial experience in Algeria and in the subsequent pattern of immigration, which has added 6 million north African and Arab Muslims to France's population — the Klarsfelds also see disturbingly familiar dynamics at work in politics across Europe.

"Really, it's the first time in the history of Frenchmen," Serge says, "of European people in the Western World, that there is no war. There is freedom since the end of the war. Sixty years of peace — it's never happened since the Roman Empire. So people want to go on in that line, and they don't look left or right. They want to keep this peace as long as possible. It's exactly like in the 1930s, where, after such a horrible war — 2 million Frenchmen died during the First World War — they didn't want any more war … . They made concessions, concessions, concessions."

And, today, he adds, "Europe is making concessions to the Arab world and is ready to sacrifice Israel diplomatically."

Klarsfeld, a rare French supporter of the war in Iraq, is deeply disturbed by the dangers he sees in the rise of militant Islamic factions around the world. He is more concerned about the dangers of appeasement — which is his characterization of the recent Spanish national elections — than he is about any backlash from trying to suppress Islamic fundamentalists. The backlash, he says in so many words, is already here.

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[Cicero]

Great story. Worth a look at the source. I liked how Beate put Kiesinger out of a job. Someone should do the same with Chirac.

I'm especially glad they are calling attention to the "strategic alliance" between Nazi Muslims and European leftists. More American Jews need to hear about this new version of the Hitler-Stalin pact.

[Rastus]

Euro crapweasels

Have you been reading Stephen King's Dreamcatcher?

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Rastus wrote: (Euro crapweasels) Have you been reading Stephen King's Dreamcatcher?

No, Stephen King isn't my cup of mocha java.

[The Scourge of Yazid]

My English professor said that was a pretty good novel; though it's probably one of the few King works that I haven't read.

Question though: Aren't weasels carnivores? I can't see any of these European leaders-okay, maybe Vaclav Klaus, but that's about it-hunting down and killing their prey. They usually stick to making derisive remarks about Americans' intellect and wayward foreign policy.