Posted on 11/09/2011 4:33:00 PM PST by SJackson
Couldn’t read the whole article. Suffice it to say that since moving to Israel, my experience with French expatriate Jews has been that they are the most agreeable, decent people. They are regular guests in my house, and I’ve been at times a regular guest in theirs. I don’t know what the present-day attitudes of French society within France is, having only passed through de Gaulle Airport once on my way to the US, but one famous Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville said in Democracy in America that nations are not like men. Each generation can start afresh. Whatever Frenchmen did or did not do to Jews during WW II, one should not hold the present generations accountable, so long as they do not continue in their forefathers’ path. Same with the Germans, Ukrainians, etc. What is of interest is what the French and France are doing right now vis a vis its Jews and Israel.
I feel great pain for France right now, and fear that one day an Algerian mob will break into the Louvre and destroy the Mona Lisa for exposing her face in public instead of wearing at least a hijab. Whatever the previous generations’ crimes, the present generation does not deserve to become yet another conquered part of the Daar ulIslaam.
I was completely unaware of that story.
My family was treated very unfairly by the French, but I still speak French, and have a strange fondness for France.
I am putting this town on my to-do list now.
The forever petulant French; a bane to “peaceful” coexistence with all of its allies and partners.
Where does it come from? Answer: French culture and history; and it is inseparable from France and the French.
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