True that. It was obvious back in 1981, my first visit to Paris. TMFA ... Too Many F***ing Arabs. I remember that impression very clearly. Sadat was assassinated the same week. An older Frenchman was standing at a news stand where I was picking up a copy of the Herald Tribune and almost yelled in my face “Les Russe!” (the Russians!). He didn’t know he was surrounded by the real culprits with more arriving every day.
It was 83 for me.
I remember graffiti all over Toulon that said “Kill an Arab” and there was a chicken with a cartoon bomb
Ghadaffi was blowing up the Med an a regular basis.