Posted on 04/10/2002 11:34:27 PM PDT by Blackyce
PARIS - A school bus carrying Jewish students in Paris was bombarded with stones Wednesday, news reports said, drawing immediate condemnation from the Paris mayor and renewed pleas for religious tolerance.
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Mayor Bertrand Delanoe issued a statement Wednesday saying he was "profoundly shocked by the intolerable aggression against a bus carrying students from a Jewish school" in the north of Paris.
RTL radio reported that stone throwers attacked the bus Wednesday afternoon, causing minor injuries to one of the students.
The spate of attacks have coincided with an escalation in Middle East violence and have heightened tension between French Jews and the country's large Muslim community.
France's leaders have denounced the attacks and increased security at Jewish religious sites around the country.
Prime Minister Lionel Jospin reiterated his "total condemnation" of the violence in an interview on France-2 television Wednesday night.
"No matter what is happening in the Middle East ... anti-Semitic acts are totally unacceptable," Jospin said. "We must keep the peace on our soil."
"We can and we must live together in harmony," Jospin said.
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Oh, I'm think I'm starting to find out...:)
What's going on now in France by Moslems attacking Jews with apparent French acquiescence - in one case, two police officers just standing by as a Molotov cocktail was tossed at a synagogue they were "guarding" - is beyond the 1987-93 intifada back in Gaza and realistically cannot be described as anything short of "low-intensity warfare."
If it were not for their famous white flag industry, nobody would care about them.
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