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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