[My Identity]

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[The Great Satan]

''Bravo for France! This vote shows the French people do not want to return to the past and do not want to be ruled by despicable people nostalgic for the Vichy regime,'' she said.

Well, only 20% of them do.

[Mike Darancette]

France's Jewish community, Europe's largest, welcomed the defeat of extreme right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in the presidential election on Sunday but warned that his score was worryingly high nonetheless.

I fail to see how empowering the Muslim Immigrants can be a good thing for France's Jews.

How many of the current crop of anti-Jewish acts in France have been perpetrated by Le Pen supporters?

[scratchgolfer]

Over a million French citizens marched against Le Pen one day last week. France needs to find someone not as left as Chirac, but the answer is not a Holocaust denying, ultra right-wing nut whose defeat you appear to mourn.

[montag813]

French Jews really don't get it, do they? Was Le Pen the candidate who visited mosque after mosque across France to pander to the Muslims, while doing nothing about rampant anti-Jew attacks?

[wardaddy]

Well Larry, I must confess ambivalence on this one. I hope you're not too comfortable touting an article that has Abe Foxman as a talking head. I doubt you get your cues from his ilk.

At first glance it appears to me that LePen has gotten the same broad tar brush as Buchanan....a few seemingly insensitive comments over a highly sensitized topic and then the whole world regards one as a jackbooted Nazi. Yet just last week LePen was on record fully supporting Israel's right to defend herself....something shockingly few Euro-Politicos have done recently. I admit I do not know enough of the particulars on LePen to condemn him....the insensitive comments about "details" are not enough in my view and I believe that the French Arabs are a greater threat to Jews and Christians alike than LePen or his cronies.

Odd isn't it? Anyone to the right or far right (like me) are automatically assumed to be anti-Jew yet who has just quite recently been Israel's staunchest supporters here in the US. Folks just like me Larry. Southern hard right gun owning white protestant "bad boys"....that's who....and in a higher proportion even than American Jews. Incredible. I saw one poll of Southern Baptists where the pollster could find not one person who would side with the Pali's and their cause ...that's 100% support. And it's not all evangelical rapture ....it's simply how we salt of the earth types recognize right and wrong....and enemies when we see it.

Yet, give it another month and if all goes back to the normal Mexican standoff in the Middle East, all our support will be forgotten and we'll go back to being stereotyped as Jew-hating rednceks. IT GETS OLD.

[Michael2001]

I'm sure they'll be much safer as Chirac invites more of their Muslims friends in.